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

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

Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.

A relationship can give you a gut wrenching feeling sometimes. It’s a real emotional ride.

‚Love Story‘ is actually about a guy that I almost dated. But when I introduced him to my family and my friends, they all said they didn’t like him. All of them!

The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I’m doin‘ now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.

The facts tell us that no religious Faith releases – or ever has released at any moment in History – a higher degree of warmth, a more intense dynamism of unification than the Christianity of our own day – and the more Catholic it is, the truer my words.

History isn’t just the story of bad people doing bad things. It’s quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.

The Center for Disease Control started out as the malaria war control board based in Atlanta. Partly because the head of Coke had some people out to his plantation, and they got infected with malaria, and partly ‚cause all the military recruits were coming down and having a higher fatality rate from malaria while training than in the field.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

It is odd that we have so little relationship with nature, with the insects and the leaping frog and the owl that hoots among the hills calling for its mate. We never seem to have a feeling for all living things on the earth.

I have always been an old-line Henry Clay Whig.

We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights.

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

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

Contention existed before the earth was formed.

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Well, Apple invented the PC as we know it, and then it invented the graphical user interface as we know it eight years later (with the introduction of the Mac). But then, the company had a decade in which it took a nap.

Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that.

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

Put a love note in his shaving kit before he leaves on a business trip.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.

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.

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

I’ve done the bad-boy thing. It was fun for a good three months. But the thing about bad boys is, you have to keep in mind, you’re never gonna marry a bad boy.

Is everything funny? For me, yes. There’s a positive to every negative. Even my divorce? For me, yes. If you go back and look at it, why it happened or how it happened, there’s something in there that’ll make you laugh.

Repeal the Missouri Compromise – repeal all compromises – repeal the Declaration of Independence – repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature. It will be the abundance of man’s heart that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.

I’d done a lot of research in Hollywood and in academia. I love research and so I wanted to kind of ground the book in history, in things that I read that were universal and timeless and then kind of let my own experiences sort of filter through all of this history.

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered… to feel she is the most important thing in someone’s world. Only a man can paint this picture.

The solutions to our problems are and always will be based upon universal, timeless, self-evident principles common to every enduring, prospering society throughout history.

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

The fastest manned vehicle in history was Apollo 10. It reached 25,000 mph.

I just got to feel that whoever I marry has some real regard for me.

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.

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

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

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

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

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

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.

At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history; it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

I had the classic 40 meltdown. I did. It’s embarrassing. It was pretty funny. But then I recovered. To me, it was like a second adolescence. Hormonally, my body was changing, my mind was changing, and so my relationship to myself and the world around me came to this assault of finiteness.

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

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I’m wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.

Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.

There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible that in any profane history.

In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.

Marriage and family are ordained of God. The family is the most important social unit in time and in eternity. Under God’s great plan of happiness, families can be sealed in temples and be prepared to return to dwell in His holy presence forever. That is eternal life!

I’ve never had a dislike for men. I’ve been badly treated by some. But I’ve been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them.

I had had a continuing smoldering fury about the treatment of Jews in Germany.