Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jesse Ventura

The people need to understand that marijuana is an unbelievable plant that has huge medical - it's a medical plant, is the best way to describe it. It has huge benefits for us as people in many, many - so many different ways.

Jay McInerney

It's the cynics who never get married.

Jay Leno

And under the new guidelines issued by the Obama Administration, Federal agents will not pursue pot-smoking patients in states that allow medical marijuana. This new policy is called 'Don't Ask, Don't -- What Was I Talking About?'

Jay Leno

Sarah Palin has revealed she has tried marijuana, but she did not like it. You know, it's amazing: 200 million Americans have smoked marijuana. The only ones who don't like it seem to be elected officials. Ever notice that?

Jay Leno

Actually, the University of California says they may start a marijuana research center. Really? I thought the University of California was a marijuana research center.

Candace Bushnell

Oh I don't plan on getting married. It's a legalized form of prostitution.

Buzz Aldrin

I was the first Navy, Marine or Air Force person who had been an astronaut to return back to the Air Force. I had certain expectations about what would be a reasonable and desirable position to be assigned to after my years of service.

James Dobson

Marriage succeeds only as lifetime commitment with no escape clauses.

Ethan Nadelmann

Nobody tells the history of marijuana and its prohibition like Russ Belville does. He has a special talent for presenting scholarship in a remarkably engaging way. That’s why I turned to Russ when I needed someone to present on the subject to the annual staff retreat of the Drug Policy Alliance. And it’s why I repeatedly recommend him for speaking and media opportunities. He’s good!

Fulton J. Sheen

At Cana, [Mary] gave Him as a Savior to sinners; on the Cross He gave her as a refuge to sinners.

Hal Holbrook

Mark Twain cannot be defined.

Gerrit Smith

The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we have seen, is forbidden him.

Herman Melville

He pressed his forehead against mine, clasped me around my waist, and said henceforth we were married.

Jean-Marie Le Pen

Marine Le Pen may want me dead, that's possible, but she must not count on my co-operation

Jeff Vandermeer

If I wasn't a writer, I don't know what I'd be. Probably a marine biologist or something.

Hugh Shelton

But it's been a great, humbling - and I've been very honored to have the opportunity to serve and to lead and to be the representative of our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who are in Washington. And it's been the greatest honor of my life.

Hugh Douglas

I have some flamboyant outfits. It wouldn't be me if I didn't. But I'm married now. I'm not allowed to wear those outfits.

Hortense Odlum

As unmarried business women we must constantly use our opportunities in business in such a way that we are prepared for the marriage which may be ours tomorrow.

Hank Aaron

Making the majors is not as hard as staying there, staying interested day after day. It's like being married. The hardest part is to stay married.

James Brolin

I feel like we were married from the moment we sat down there.

James Branch Cabell

People marry for a variety of reasons and with varying results. But to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.

James Brady

There was always talk of espirit de corps, of being gung ho, and that must have been a part of it. Better, tougher training, more marksmanship on the firing range, the instant obedience to orders seared into men in boot camp.

Gloria Allred

Generally, dictatorships do not work in marriage - or, for that matter, in any other relationship.

Jessica Savitch

In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent.

Jenny McCarthy

Marriage is a pretty amazing thing when you think about it. For two people to live together for so long under the same roof is a big accomplishment. Fifty-year anniversaries are becoming extinct, yet again proving that long marriages deserve awards and praise. Sometimes I see old people in restaurants sitting together eating their meals and I watch them. Sometimes it makes me sad. They don't even talk. Is it because they have nothing else to say, or can they simply read each other's mind by now?

Gillian Anderson

I'm actually very scared of sharks. I wanted to be a marine biologist when I was young, which may not have been compatible with that fear.

Hank Sauer

I don't know how it started but someone must have noticed I was always chewing tobacco or smoking a pipe.

Gunter Grass

I am not faithful but I am attached.

Honore de Balzac

When passion is not fed, it changes to need. At this juncture, marriage becomes a fixed idea in the mind of the bourgeois, being the only means whereby he can win a woman and appropriate her to his uses.

Honore de Balzac

Marriage must perforce fight against the all-devouring monster of habit.

Honore de Balzac

Marriage is an institution necessary to the maintenance of society but contrary to the laws of nature.

Honore de Balzac

Marriage is a fight to the death. Before contracting it, the two parties concerned implore the benediction of Heaven because to promise to love each other forever is the rashest of enterprises.

Honore de Balzac

Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.