Famous Quotes & Sayings

Geoffrey Chaucer

One shouldn't be too inquisitive in life Either about God's secrets or one's wife.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Frank Pittman

Marriage isn't supposed to make you happy - it's supposed to make you married.

Frank Pittman

For most people, a life lived alone, with passing strangers or passing lovers, is incoherent and ultimately unbearable. Someone must be there to know what we have done for those we love.

Frank Pittman

Marriage, like a submarine, is only safe if you get all the way inside.

Frank Pittman

Fidelity is the single most important element in solidly enduring marriages.

Frank Pittman

The more things we can laugh about, the more alive we become: The more things we can laugh about together, the more connected we become.

Frank Pittman

Love is not something people feel, but something people try to express no matter how they feel.

Frank Pittman

Bad marriages don't cause infidelity; infidelity causes bad marriages.

Frank Pittman

Infidelity flows from a belief that women have the power to make you feel like a man if you only find a woman that thinks you're perfect; if you can only find a woman that you haven't hurt or disappointed yet.

Frank Pittman

It is necessary but insufficient to stay married for the children's sake. It is also necessary to stay happily married for the children's sake. I'm so glad someone noticed that marriage doesn't have to make you miserable. It is just so easy to be happy I don't understand why it isn't more popular.

Frank Pittman

. . . in the end, there is nothing a man can do that a woman can't, except be a father.

George Jean Nathan

Marriage is based on the theory that when a man discovers a brand of beer exactly to his taste, he should at once throw up his job and go to work inthe brewery.

Christopher Bond

According to the Small Business Administration, more than 70 percent of all family businesses do not survive through the second generation, and 8 percent do not make it to a third.

Chris Penn

The next evolution of content marketing is not more content; it's better distribution.

George W. Bush

When John Murtha, for example, said the Marines are killing innocent civilians in cold blood.

George Soros

Just as the process of repealing national alcohol prohibition began with individual states repealing their own prohibition laws, so individual states must now take the initiative with respect to repealing marijuana prohibition laws.

George Soros

Proposition 19 already is a winner no matter what happens on election day. The mere fact of its being on the ballot has elevated and legitimized public discourse about marijuana and marijuana policy in ways I could not have imagined a year ago.

George Soros

Regulating and taxing marijuana would simultaneously save taxpayers billions of dollars in enforcement and incarceration costs, while providing many billions of dollars in revenue annually.

George Soros

Who most benefits from keeping marijuana illegal? The greatest beneficiaries are the major criminal organizations in Mexico and elsewhere that earn billions of dollars annually from this illicit trade - and who would rapidly lose their competitive advantage if marijuana were a legal commodity.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

... you can never be sure of what has passed between husband and wife or lover and mistress.

Friedrich Nietzsche

If married couples did not live together, happy marriages would be more frequent.

Friedrich Nietzsche

At the beginning of a marriage ask yourself whether this woman will be interesting to talk to from now until old age. Everything else in marriage is transitory: most of the time is spent in conversation.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Even cohabitation has been corrupted - by marriage.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Marriage was contrived for ordinary people, for people who are capable of neither great love nor great friendship, which is to say, for most people--but also for those exceptionally rare ones who are capable of love as well as of friendship.

Franz Grillparzer

The prince exults whomever he selects as his consort, but the queen, rather than elevating the subject of her choice, humiliates him as a man. By all that is right, a man is not intended to be the husband of his wife, but a woman is to be her husband's wife.

Franz Grillparzer

Woman is the crown of all creation, but Man is the head who wears it, and even the servant is master in his house.

Frank Zappa

I'm not going to be Bill Clinton and say I never inhaled. I did inhale. I liked tobacco a lot better.

Jeff Lindsay

Detective, I don't know where the boyfriend is, really," I said. And it was true, considering tide, current, and the habits of marine scavengers. -Dexter

Jeanette Winterson

Marriage is the flimsiest weapon against desire. You may as well take a pop-gun to a python.

Jim Caviezel

I married a woman who is much better than me, I'm very fortunate to be with her and I know I'll be happy with her the rest of my life.

Jello Biafra

What they're not doing is marketing the Dead Kennedys in the spirit of what the band stood for.

Jeb Bush

We now have a lack of readiness that is quite scary. We have planes that were - that Harry Truman inaugurated, the B-52. We have - the Navy has been gutted and decimated. The readiness of the Marines is way down.