Famous Quotes & Sayings

H. L. Mencken

The way to hold a husband is to keep him a little jealous; the way to lose him is to keep him a little more jealous.

H. L. Mencken

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

Paul Newman

People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.

Maryon Pearson

I married him for better or worse. I didn't marry him for lunch.

Maryon Pearson

Behind every great man there is a surprised woman.

Mary Wollstonecraft

... to improve both sexes they ought, not only in private families, but in public schools, to be educated together. If marriage be the cement of society, mankind should all be educated after the same model, or the intercourse of the sexes will never deserve the name of fellowship ...

Mary Wollstonecraft

When a man seduces a woman, it should, I think, be termed a left-handed marriage.

Mary J. Blige

I've been a tomboy my whole life. But then you get older, you get married, you soften up.

Marshall McLuhan

Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.

Pat Conroy

Each divorce is the death of a small civilization.

Julia Quinn

My mother is convinced that yellow is a happy color and that a happy girl would get a husband. -Penelope Featherington

Leonardo da Vinci

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

Oscar Wilde

The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.

Oscar Wilde

Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.

Mitt Romney

I feel very deeply about the need to respect and tolerate people of different social - or sexual orientation. But at the same time, I believe marriage should be preserved as an institution for one man and one woman.

Mitt Romney

Like me, the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians.

Nelson Mandela

The march to freedom is irreversible.

Nelson Mandela

Isimangaliso must be the only place on the globe where the oldest land mammal (rhinoceros) and the world biggest terrestrial mammal (elephant) share an ecosystem with the world's oldest fish (coelacanth) and the world's biggest marine mammal (whale)

Nellie McKay

You know, if I can survive marching band, I can survive anything.

Nell Carter

I've had diseases that lasted longer than my marriages. You know you are in a bad marriage if you walk down the aisle thinking, 'Is this dress right?

R. Lee Ermey

Back in the old Corp, we weren't training those privates to infiltrate into the peacetime Marine Corp. We were training those privates to go to Vietnam.

R. Lee Ermey

I was stationed at a marine recruit depot in San Diego from 1965 to 1967.

R. Lee Ermey

Without discipline, there is no Marine Corp.

Nia Vardalos

Time can turn a scab into a beauty mark.

Nia Long

I don’t feel less loved or less loving because I’m not married.

Newt Gingrich

I think Jefferson and George Washington would strongly discourage you from growing marijuana, and their tactics to stop you would be more violent than they would be today.

Noam Chomsky

If the principle is, "Let's not get lethal substances out to the public", the first one you'd go after is tobacco. The next one you'd go after is alcohol. Way down the list you'd get to cocaine, and sort of invisibly low you'd get to marijuana.

Noam Chomsky

One might ask why tobacco is legal and marijuana not. A possible answer is suggested by the nature of the crop. Marijuana can be grown almost anywhere, with little difficulty. It might not be easily marketable by major corporations. Tobacco is quite another story.

Noam Chomsky

Legalizing marijuana would make a lot of sense, I don't think there's a single case of marijuana overdose on record and tens of millions of users. It's much less dangerous than alcohol, for example.

Noam Chomsky

It was declared by Congress that marijuana makes people insane. But . . . lawyers, defense lawyers, got the idea, OK, I can use this for an insanity defense.

Mike Myers

Marriage can be viewed as the waiting room for death.

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?