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.

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.

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

See, people are watching you. Especially your children. They’re taking in every single thing you do. They are like video cameras with legs. And they are always in the record mode. They learn more from what you do than from what you say.

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.

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

I’m typically single. I’m the girl who – I call it girl-next-door-itis – the hot guy is friends with and gets all his relationship advice from but never considers dating.

When I get married, it’ll be no secret.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.

Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub.

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don’t think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive.

We want our marriage to be a triumph, not a tragedy.

Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

When I was married, I definitely went through a lying period.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Arthur Miller wouldn’t have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

There’s a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with someone and getting married. Usually, after you get married, you fall in love with the person even more.

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

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it’s the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone’s talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false ‚intelligence‘ and selected ‚leaks.‘

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

I’ll tell you one thing, since I’m married, single people look absolutely ridiculous to me.

Jack Kerouac influenced me quite a bit as a writer… in the Arab sense that the enemy of my enemy was my friend.

My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art.

Basically my wife was immature. I’d be at home in the bath and she’d come in and sink my boats.

Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

I had real plans for my next decade and felt I’d worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read – if not indeed write – the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger?

Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

Mad or glad, Mr. Reagan is head over heels in love with Mrs. Reagan and can’t even imagine a world without her – He loves her.

When people get married young, you don’t really understand the true definition of marriage.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

The public doesn’t mind people living together without being married, providing they don’t overdo it.

The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness, and industry.

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

I feel like I’m the kind of guy that would have kids before getting married. The first thing would be kids.

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

I give unto my wife my second best bed with the furniture.

Kids are watching us. I experience it every single day. They hang on my every word, what I wear, what I say.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

Celebrity is ridiculous and silly and it’s mad that people like me are listened to – you know, rap stars and movie stars.

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

My wife has about everything I can think of.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it’s hip not to be married. I’m not interested in being hip.

In my divorce, I stood up and said to my ex-wife, ‚Hey, I messed up. This had nothing to do with you. I didn’t understand what marriage was. I cheated. I was wrong. We couldn’t fix it; it got worse. I stepped away because I didn’t want it to get any worse. You’re the mother of my kids – I don’t want to hate you.‘

We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.

I’m not a marketing person. I don’t ask myself questions. I go by instinct.

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

Men’s vows are women’s traitors!

It is possible for a woman to be a romantic, but also to be single and to be happy.

I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.