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

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

She’s been married so many times she has rice marks on her face.

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

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.

Being a good husband is like being a good stand-up comic – you need ten years before you can even call yourself a beginner.

My wife thinks she’s better than me at puzzles. I haven’t given in on that one yet.

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.

The entering class I joined in 1956 included just nine women, up from five in the then second-year class, and only one African American. All professors, in those now-ancient days, were of the same race and sex.

In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.

How fortunate I was to be alive and a lawyer when, for the first time in United States history, it became possible to urge, successfully, before legislatures and courts, the equal-citizenship stature of women and men as a fundamental constitutional principle.

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

American imperialism is often traced to the takeover of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii in 1898.

I’m 31 now. I think I’m beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.

Social struggles have been taking place throughout millennia, since human beings, by resorting to wars, were able to take hold of a surplus production to satisfy the essential needs of life.

It’s a very good historical book about history.

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: ‚I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.‘

I wasn’t going to shy away from getting married when I did and having a baby young and starting a family, even with the job that I chose.

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

World War II broke out in 1939, and many people credit that war with saving the economy.

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

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

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

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman’s skillet and the man’s ax-helve.

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

Instruments sound interesting, not because of their sound, but because of the relationship a player has with them. Instrumentalists build a rapport with their instruments, which is what you like and respond to.

If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn’t give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

If I get married, I want to be very married.

Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history – revisionist historians is what I like to call them.

I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don’t know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.

From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.

I have a really close relationship with Mike Bloomberg.

I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror.

I don’t think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that’s now history.

I married my best friend that happens to be a girl.

I’m married. My wife, Stella – a beautiful woman. She’s brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom.

Marriage is the most wonderful thing ever.

We have communion with Christ in His thoughts, views, and purposes; for His thoughts are our thoughts according to our capacity and sanctity. Believers take the same view of matters as Jesus does; that which pleases Him pleases them, and that which grieves His grieves them also.

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

You don’t sign up for a divorce when you get married. It’s very painful. But it’s taught me a great deal about myself.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

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.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

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

There’s nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It’s a thing no married man knows anything about.

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.

Alimony – the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.

Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.

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

I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.