It is the duty of every thoughtful Indian not to marry. In case he is helpless in regard to marriage, he should abstain from sexual intercourse with his wife.

We have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe.

Becoming a ‚Sir‘ is slightly uncomfortable at first, although it is a considerable honor. It is amazing how quickly you become accustomed to it.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

President Johnson and I have a lot in common. We were both born in small towns and we’re both fortunate in the fact that we think we married above ourselves.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

I realized the power of hip-hop. I realized how influential this music and this culture are.

I have visited Japan several times and have always been shown wonderful hospitality.

I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.

The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

I really love the culture of hip-hop.

Free institutions certainly exist, but a tradition of passivity and conformism restricts their use – a cynic might say that this is why they continue to exist.

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

What’s fascinating is, people in Washington would rather spend time in Hollywood, and people in Hollywood would rather spend time in Washington.

A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

A lot of churches have not moved with the times.

Politics doesn’t make strange bedfellows – marriage does.

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way. But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.

One aim of the Boy Scouts scheme is to revive amongst us, if possible, some of the rules of the knights of old.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‚understand‘ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

When good Americans die they go to Paris.

Quacks are a part of our culture, and we all fall prey to them. Who among us can say, for sure, that even our own personal physicians are honest and competent?

When you think about it, three of our biggest financial decisions in life are made at times of peak emotional excitement: deciding to get married, buying a home, and having kids.

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.

‚WASP‘ is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so it’s inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not.

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

I’m not a reality-TV kind of guy. But it’s almost like we’re living in a reality show. Every day in this country, everybody keeps worrying about the deterioration of America, and it’s like a big reality show.

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

If your culture doesn’t like geeks, you are in real trouble.

People from all over the world come to London wanting to make their own mark on it, and they add to the energy and vitality of the capital. It’s got a bit busier since the ’60s, but the more the merrier!

Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.

Government’s first duty and highest obligation is public safety.

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.

Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.

I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch.

Compton got such a legacy in hip-hop.

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

My wife has about everything I can think of.

In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you’ve become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that’s the height of intelligence.

The reason why I wear gold – I wear gold for three reasons. One, when Jesus was born, three wise men came from the east: one brought frankincense, one brought myrrh, the other one brought gold. The second reason I wear gold is I can afford it. The third reason I wear it, it’s symbolic of my African heritage.

Y’all are so cute and y’all talk so proper over here. I love England.

Since I have come to America, I am often asked whether my next novel will be set in America. I don’t think it will. I think I will be living in America for some time to come, but while living in America, I would like to write about Japanese society from the outside.

So there’s no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn’t necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn’t necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame.

Married or single, you sisters possess distinctive capabilities and special intuition you have received as gifts from God. We brethren cannot duplicate your unique influence.

A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children and, if necessary, bone by bone.

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.

I happen to be a big fan of Western civilization; I think it beats the hell out of tyranny and starvation.