Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mae West

Marriage is like a book. The whole story takes place between the covers.

Mae West

Men are my hobby, if I ever got married I'd have to give it up.

Mae West

Getting married is like trading in the adoration of many for the sarcasm of one.

Luke Treadaway

It was great to play an ex-marine cockney thug. All my roles are as different as the colours of the rainbow.

Margaret Sanger

A mutual and satisfied sexual act is of great benefit to the average woman, the magnetism of it is health giving. When it is not desired on the part of the woman and she has no response, it should not take place. This is an act of prostitution and is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding.

Michel de Montaigne

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

Michel de Montaigne

Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.

Michel de Montaigne

Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want then when you see what the other person has, you wish you had ordered that.

Michel de Montaigne

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Michel de Montaigne

[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

Michel de Montaigne

When a Roman was returning from a trip, he used to send someone ahead to let his wife know, so as not to surprise her in the act.

Michel de Montaigne

We do not marry for ourselves, whatever we say; we marry just as much or more for our posterity, for our family. The practice and benefit of marriage concerns our race very far beyond us.

Michael Novak

Marriage, the family unit, was the "original Department of Health, Education and Welfare."

Michael Kinsley

The logic is often far-fetched - how does medical marijuana affect interstate commerce? - and some conservatives would like judges to start throwing out federal laws wholesale on commerce clause grounds. The court once again said no thanks.

Mark Twain

If husbands could realize what large returns of profit may be gotten out of a wife by a small word of praise paid over the counter when the market is just right, they would bring matters around the way they wish them much oftener than they usually do. Arguments are unsafe with wives, because they examine them; but they do not examine compliments. One can pass upon a wife a compliment that is three-fourths base

Mae West

It's easy to get married, but hard to stay that way.

Mae West

He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.

Mae West

Some women pick men to marry--and others pick them to pieces.

Michael Herr

What is the difference between the Marine Corps and the Boy Scouts? The Boy Scouts have adult leadership.

Michael Caine

I've never been out with a married woman, never. I respect others properties.

Merle Shain

Marriage is supposed to do everything, like Duz, which is more than half its problem. It is said to save us, define us, give us purpose, keep us from loneliness, and incidentally balance our diet and wash our socks, and when it doesn't, we get divorced.

Merle Shain

We marry to grow up, to escape our parents and to inherit our share of the world, not knowing who we are and who we will become, so it is left to marriage to make it clear which ones of us are growing in the same directions and which are ships meant to have passed in the night.

Merle Shain

I'm not sure there can be loving without commitment, although commitment takes all kinds of forms, and there can be commitment for the moment as well as commitment for all time. The kind that is essential for loving marriages - and love affairs, as well - is a commitment to preserving the essential quality of your partner's soul, adding to them as a person rather than taking away.

Merle Haggard

'Cause I was already a smoker, it was easy to get addicted. The one thing that they don't teach you about marijuana is how addictive it is.

Merle Haggard

We don't smoke marijuana in Muskogee, we don't take trips on LSD. We don't burn our draft cards down on Main Street, we like living right and free.

Melina Mercouri

There are no such things as the Elgin Marbles.

Mason Cooley

Masturbation is a democratic pleasure, practiced by rich and poor, young and old, married and single.

Mason Cooley

Antagonistic cooperation is the principle of all markets and many marriages.

Mason Cooley

The squabbles of philandering Zeus and shrewish Hera are the Greeks' comment on married life.

Mason Cooley

Some marriages depend on domestic arguments the way the courts depend on litigation.

Mason Cooley

Mars and Venus are at it again. This time, Hephaestus is standing by with a private detective, a photographer, and a lawyer.

Mary Archer

I think we explored the further reaches of 'for better or for worse' than some other married couples.

Mary Augusta Ward

It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership.