We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.

I usually get myself into situations that cause sparks. I mean I'm a girl that likes the storms. I love feeling alive, I love walking out in the cold in my bare feet and feeling the ice on my toes.

It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.

It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.

It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion.

The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.

Love is friendship set on fire.

You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.

They're right to think that about me, because I'm the person most likely to sleep with my female fans, I genuinely love other women. And I think they know that.

A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.

The only thing we never get enough of is love and the only thing we never give enough of is love.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

You know, all that really matters is that the people you love are happy and healthy. Everything else is just sprinkles on the sundae.

Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.

Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their life.

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.

When I sing, I feel like when you're first in love. It's more than sex. It's that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it's gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.

A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love.

A lot of times black folks look for love in all the wrong places. You're always looking for somebody to love you, be accepted, and there's the insecurities that are even transmitted through rap. Everyone is trying to aim to please too much.

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved. I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I am very happy to do that, I want to do that.

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain.

Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself all that runs over will be yours.

I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can't experience life without feeling life. What I've learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness, it's a strength.

If a man is truly in love, the most beautiful woman in the world couldn't take him away. Maybe for a few days, but not forever.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

Love is the river of life in the world.

The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.

Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.

I love chicken. I would eat chicken fingers on Thanksgiving if it were socially acceptable.

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom to serve all, but love only one.

When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to be considerate of us. There is a world of difference here between demanding justice... and begging or pleading for love.

He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish.

The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.

We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.

When people are lame, they love to blame.

When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?

A James Cagney love scene is one where he lets the other guy live.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

If love is the treasure, laughter is the key.

I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honor of citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of such an extraordinary part of the world and fellow citizen to the people I deeply love and admire.

You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate.

My trust in a higher power that wants me to survive and have love in my life, is what keeps me moving forward.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

I love my children beyond all reason. They're my joy, even when they're wild with kid energy.

We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do.

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

Love has its own time, its own season, and its own reasons from coming and going. You cannot bribe it or coerce it or reason it into staying. You can only embrace it when it arrives and give it away when it comes to you.

Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.

We pardon to the extent that we love.

This love is silent.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.

Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.

Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.

Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them.

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.

Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.

At the end of the day, you know, love does not happen between two perfect people as much as we would wish.

Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

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

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

Don't marry the person you think you can live with marry only the individual you think you can't live without.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

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

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

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.

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

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.

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.

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.

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

One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

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

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.

The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.

A dress that zips up the back will bring a husband and wife together.

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

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

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

I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.

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

Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

Bachelors know more about women than married men if they didn't they'd be married too.

No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.

A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.

Never get married in college it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.

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

To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it Whenever you're right, shut up.

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.

When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.

It's tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won't drink from my glass.

There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.

When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

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

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

By our Heavenly Father and only because of God, only because of God. We're like other couples. We do not get along perfectly we do not go without arguments and, as I call them, fights, and heartache and pain and hurting each other. But a marriage is three of us.

Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later for another thing, they die earlier.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

I think women are natural caretakers. They take care of everybody. They take care of their husbands and their kids and their dogs, and don't spend a lot of time just getting back and taking time out.

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.

A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.

An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.

A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.

If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.

There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.

Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.

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

The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.

A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.

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

Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.

Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.

Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.

The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.

Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.

Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps.

It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.

Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

Love is often the fruit of marriage.

It is a full time job being honest one moment at a time, remembering to love, to honor, to respect. It is a practice, a discipline, worthy of every moment.

Plant and your spouse plants with you weed and you weed alone.

Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.

My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives.

Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.

Daddy was real gentle with kids. That's why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant.

It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying it's separating himself from all the others.

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

Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.

Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.

He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.

Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.

Marriage is not about age it's about finding the right person.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.

Marriage: A word which should be pronounced 'mirage'.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued.

I've had an exciting time I married for love and got a little money along with it.

Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die.

Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.

Take care of him. And make him feel important. And if you can do that, you'll have a happy and wonderful marriage. Like two out of every ten couples.

Caesar might have married Cleopatra, but he had a wife at home. There's always something.

I don't think my wife likes me very much, when I had a heart attack she wrote for an ambulance.

On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable.

Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife she has thought much worse things about you.

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.

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

Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom wait until they have been married longer.

Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.

Protecting the institution of marriage safeguards, I believe, the American family.

When you have a baby, love is automatic, when you get married, love is earned.

I like getting married, but I don't like being married.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!

I enjoy being single, but I loved being married.

In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to brutally oppress people and thereby violated the laws of nature.

Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest.

It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.

If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother.

When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books.

Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.

For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end.

But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?

Is there a doctor in the house? My parents want me to marry you.

Married couples who work together to build and maintain a business assume broad responsibilities. Not only is their work important to our local and national economies, but their success is central to the well-being of their families.

The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.

If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable.

Marriage, like money, is still with us and, like money, progressively devalued.

There's nothing like a good cheating song to make me want to run home to be with my wife.

The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.

Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.

Marriage is an exercise in torture.

Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.

The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.

I might be celibate, but I appreciate the wonder of the sacrament of marriage.

The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.

One was never married, and that's his hell another is, and that's his plague.

I very much feel that marriage is a sacrament and that sacrament should extend... to that legal entity of a union between what traditionally in our Western values has been defined as between a man and a woman.

I married beneath me, all women do.

I am the most well-adjusted human being I know. I started out this investigation as a very happy man with a great career. I've got the life people dream about: I am rich, I am famous, I've got a fabulous marriage to an absolutely, spell-bindingly brilliant woman.

I think it's something that needs to be said - that there are interracial marriages out there, and the couples live happy lives, and there's nothing wrong with it.

Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work?

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning.

I wanted to marry a girl just like my mom.

Marriage is a financial contract I have enough contracts already.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.

I've had two proposals since I've been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a lot of money.

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day, but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

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

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

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

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

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

I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.

When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.

So many people prefer to live in drama because it's comfortable. It's like someone staying in a bad marriage or relationship - it's actually easier to stay because they know what to expect every day, versus leaving and not knowing what to expect.

I support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

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.

The heart of marriage is memories and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns, then your marriage is a gift from the gods.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

I'm 0 for 3 with marriage - the scoreboard doesn't lie, never has. So what we all have is a marriage of the heart. To sully or contaminate or radically disrespect this union with a shameful contract is something that I will leave to the amateurs and the Bible grippers.

I tried marriage. I'm 0 for 3 with the marriage thing. So, being a ballplayer - I believe in numbers. I'm not going 0 for 4. I'm not wearing a golden sombrero.

Friendship is two-sided. It isn't a friend just because someone's doing something nice for you. That's a nice person. There's friendship when you do for each other. It's like marriage - it's two-sided.

I feel very deeply about the need to respect and tolerate people of different social - or sexual orientation. But at the same time, I believe marriage should be preserved as an institution for one man and one woman.

I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying.

Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.

Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty.

What I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman, but what I also believe is that we have an obligation to make sure that gays and lesbians have the rights of citizenship that afford them visitations to hospitals, that allow them to be, to transfer property between partners, to make certain that they're not discriminated on the job.

I don't think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.

I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman.

My decision to end my marriage was such a risk to lose ratings and lose my fan base. I had to take that risk for my inner peace and to be happy with myself.

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

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

My view is that marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman. That's the position I've had for some time, and I don't intend to make any adjustments at this point... Or ever, by the way.

I think there are a whole host of things that are civil rights, and then there are other things - such as traditional marriage - that, I think, express a community's concern and regard for a particular institution.

I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.

Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.

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

I'm not for gay marriage, but I'm not for discriminating against people.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Marriage is not a noun it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

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.

Like me, the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians.

If you cannot work on the marriage or the women is a moron, staying married and cheating makes the most sense because divorce is disruptive to the family life and your bank account.

And let me make this very clear - unlike President Obama, I will not raise taxes on the middle class. As president, I will protect the sanctity of life. I will honor the institution of marriage. And I will guarantee America's first liberty: the freedom of religion.

In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage.

Culture, what you believe, what you value, how you live matters. Now, as fundamental as these principles are, they may become topics of democratic debates from time to time, so it is today with the enduring institution of marriage. Marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman.

I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.

I think what makes our marriage work amid all the glare is that my husband is my best friend. He inspires everything in my life and enables me to do the best that I can. I want to hang out with him more than anyone.

The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.

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

We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations - we're doing everything we can to keep our marriage together.

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

My marriage is on the rocks again, yeah, my wife just broke up with her boyfriend.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.

Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty.

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

Well I think in a marriage you have to be honest and ask yourself, you know, what is my role? What is my responsibility?

The Bible is clear - God's definition of marriage is between a man and a woman.

Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.

I have not supported same-sex marriage. I have supported civil partnerships and contractual relationships.

Every marriage is a mystery to me, even the one I'm in. So I'm no expert on it.

Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen, a covenant between radically different partners.

I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that in the sanctity in the place of their religion and not bless them or solemnize them.

Marriage is a great institution.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!

A woman asking 'Am I good? Am I satisfied?' is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be.

Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.

Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment.

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway.

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

Whenever the people are for gay marriage or medical marijuana or assisted suicide, suddenly the 'will of the people' goes out the window.

Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so much attention that a husband and wife, concentrating on their children, fail to notice each other's faults.

An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.

More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.

A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage, but an ex-wife is there for the rest of your life.

I'm so wrapped up in my work that it's often impossible to consider other things in my life. My marriage ended in divorce because of this, my relationship with Holly has suffered by this.

Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?

I'm most proud of the longevity of my marriage, my kids, and my grandchildren. If you don't have that, you really don't have very much.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.

A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.

In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that's called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country.

Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?

I'm also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage - which no previous society has ever believed.

I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.

I like marriage. The idea.

I could be wrong, but I think heterosexual marriage is threatened more by heterosexuals. I don't know why gay marriage challenges my marriage in any way.

Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough.

Marriage is a reflection of your life in general: how you treat people, how you argue, how secure you are in your own thoughts. How vehemently do you argue your point of view? With what disdain do you view the other's point of view?

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself you want to try even harder to make it work.

Marriage changes everything.

In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.

I would love to have the same rights as everybody else. I would love, I don't care if it's called marriage. I don't care if it's called, you know, domestic partnership. I don't care what it's called.

Books and marriage go ill together.

But the key to our marriage is the capacity to give each other a break. And to realize that it's not how our similarities work together it's how our differences work together.

Our Nation must defend the sanctity of marriage.

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.

A sense of humor is great - it goes a long, long way in a marriage.

Pink Floyd is like a marriage that's on a permanent trial separation.

Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

The secret of a successful marriage is not to be at home too much.

A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.

Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.

Gay marriage is going to happen. It must.

We will see a breakdown of the family and family values if we decide to approve same-sex marriage, and if we decide to establish homosexuality as an acceptable alternative lifestyle with all the benefits that go with equating it with the heterosexual lifestyle.

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

I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage.

Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking.

After a few years of marriage a man can look right at a woman without seeing her and a woman can see right through a man without looking at him.

Crucial to understanding federalism in modern day America is the concept of mobility, or 'the ability to vote with your feet.' If you don't support the death penalty and citizens packing a pistol - don't come to Texas. If you don't like medicinal marijuana and gay marriage, don't move to California.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

I did commit to myself that I would not jump back into being the workaholic that I can be before I gave myself an honest opportunity to create the marriage of my dreams and to create the beginning of the family of my dreams, and that took a hot second.

I love the concept of togetherness and the entwinement of marriage.

Marriage is the tomb of love.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

I am against marriage, and I don't give a fig for society.

Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed.

Sometimes I bust out and do things so permanent. Like tattoos and marriage.

I have a terrific marriage, but unlike a lot of relationships where they ebb and flow, no matter what happens you fall deeper and deeper in love every day. It's kind of the best thing that can happen to you. It's thrilling.

It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.

They say marriage will change you but it didn't change me. Being in love changed me.

Marriage is wonderful.

Marriage brings up all the things I pushed to the back burner - the fears, the mistrust, the doubts, the insecurities. It's like opening Pandora's box.

I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage.

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

I don't see any reason for marriage when there is divorce.

I didn't want to be one of those women who wake up at 63 years old and realize they've missed the window of opportunity for marriage and children.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Mr. DeMille's theory of sexual difference was that marriage is an artificial state for women. The want to be taken, ruled, raped. That was his theory.

After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.

Marriage has made me a lot happier and I'm deeply in love with my wife, and I thank God for her every day.

Marriage equality is about more than just marriage. It's about something greater. It's about acceptance.

Never stay in a bad marriage, and don't hang around with psycho coke fiends.

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

It had not occurred to me that marriage requires the same effort as a career. And unlike a career, marriage requires a joint effort.

Sticking with a marriage. That's true grit, man.

Adultery - which is the only grounds for divorce in New York - is not grounds for divorce in California. As a matter of fact, adultery in Southern California is grounds for marriage.

A key to keeping your husband is getting him to miss you. That keeps a marriage fresh.

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

Perhaps my problem in marriage-and it is the problem of many women-was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage.

The ceremony took six minutes. The marriage lasted about the same amount of time though we didn't get a divorce for almost a year.

I read somewhere that Mitt and I have a 'storybook marriage.' Well, in the storybooks I read, there were never long, long, rainy winter afternoons in a house with five boys screaming at once. And those storybooks never seemed to have chapters called MS or breast cancer.

If we abandon marriage, we abandon the family.

I love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific.

I love marriage.

I don't know how it is for women or for other guys, but when I was young and in my 20s, I had a fear of marriage.

I was against gay marriage until I realized I didn't have to get one.

What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.

But marriage goes in waves. You've got to be patient. People bail and give up on their marriages way too early. They just don't put the work and the effort into it. You've got to suck up your ego a lot of times, because that can be a big downfall.

Inspirations never go in for long engagements they demand immediate marriage to action.

I firmly believe in marriage. It's a real important decision that takes a lot of dedication and time. If you're thinking about divorce. You shouldn't get married.

Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys.

Love, the quest marriage, the conquest divorce, the inquest.

I have no difficulty with the recognition of civil unions for non-traditional relationships but I believe in law we should protect the traditional definition of marriage.

The facts are plain: Religious leaders who preside over marriage ceremonies must and will be guided by what they believe. If they do not wish to celebrate marriages for same-sex couples, that is their right. The Supreme Court says so. And the Charter says so.

I come from divorce. I'm only doing marriage once. It's not a game for me.

The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.

I think even in a good marriage, especially if you stay together long enough, there are going to be events that happen.

Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.

In terms of my marriage, you know, falling in love with my husband was by far the best thing that's ever happened to me.

The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

Our marriage is grounded in the word of God. That's really it. God is the core of our marriage, and the foundation and the blueprint for it is how we live, and being open and honest and communicating, but ultimately doing what pleases God, and not in a selfish manner.

We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.

During last night's debate, John Kerry and John Edwards were so friendly to each other some political experts think that they may end up running together. In fact Kerry and Edwards were so friendly, President Bush accused them of planning a gay marriage.

The press is just not your friend when it comes to a marriage. That's why we didn't sell the pictures of our wedding, and we got offered millions of dollars for them, millions.

I think of marriage as a garden. You have to tend to it. Respect it, take care of it, feed it. Make sure everyone is getting the right amount of, um, sunlight.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Have you ever heard of a good marriage growing in front of the cameras?

The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we identify the causes of black suffering, some of them self-inflicted. Why can't black leaders organize rallies around responsible sexuality, birth within marriage, parents reading to their children and students staying in school and doing homework?

I'll always be sad that my marriage ended.

The mark of a good marriage is partnership and continuing to feel inspired by your spouse. I had that with Tao. But the end is not necessarily the tragedy. Staying in a relationship that is no longer working is the tragedy. Living unhappily - that's the tragedy.

The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.

When you're a father in a marriage, you sort of become the mother's assistant. And you sort of get a list from her every day and you run down the list and it feels very much like a chore.

Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

I don't understand what the big deal is with gay marriage. Get over it, people.

In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent.

Marriage is obsolete and a trap.

It was a perfect marriage. She didn't want to and he couldn't.

There is nothing wrong with your marriage if you're dealing with bills and kids and the broken garbage disposal and in-laws and work demands. That's a normal marriage.

I never had a policy about marriage. I got married very young in life and I always think in all relationships, I've always thought that it's counterproductive to have a theory on that.

Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.

I suffered, I really suffered, with all three of my husbands. And I tried damn hard with all three, starting each marriage certain that it was going to last until the end of my life. Yet none of them lasted more than a year or two.

After marriage, the other man's wife looks more beautiful.

Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers.

I believe in the institution of marriage, and I intend to keep trying till I get it right.

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

We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.

After a while in marriage, it doesn't work anymore. There is something missing, there is something wrong. There are few marriages that stay alive forever. We like something, and after a while, we hate what we used to love.

Marriage? It's like asparagus eaten with vinaigrette or hollandaise, a matter of taste but of no importance.

Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue.

I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married.

When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity.

It's not someone else's responsibility to honor my marriage. It's my responsibility.

I believe in traditional marriage and I believe in the Defense of Marriage Act.

I don't know why someone else's marriage has anything to do with me.

I'm completely comfortable with gay marriage.

I don't have any romantic ideas about marriage. Trust me. A white dress... ? No. It's not something for me.

The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible that is, that one is male and the other female.

I'm not convinced about marriage. Divorce is so easy, and that fact that gay people are not allowed to marry takes much of the meaning out of it. Committing yourself to one person is sacred.

Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above this is the right time for marriage.

Even if you plan a marriage and a family, you are never quite prepared for the reality versus how you imagined it. In a lot of ways it's better, and in a lot of ways it's worse. That's life, right?

The problem for those who assert biblical authority in support of traditional definitions of marriage is that one could, with equal validity, assert that the lending of money or certain kinds of haircuts are forbidden by God, or that slavery and the subjugation of women are authorized by the Lord.

My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War.

Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.

Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.

Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand.

Our marriage is strictly in name only. It has never been consummated.

You know, I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman.

Never ever discount the idea of marriage. Sure, someone might tell you that marriage is just a piece of paper. Well, so is money, and what's more life-affirming than cold, hard cash?

I don't know of many evangelicals who want to deny gay couples their legal rights. However, most of us don't want to call it marriage, because we think that word has religious connotations, and we're not ready to see it used in ways that offend us.

But I think it's up to a local congregation to determine whether or not a marriage should be blessed of God. And it shouldn't be up to the government.

Marriage should be viewed as an institution ordained by God and should be out of the control of the state.

President Bush once said that marriage is a sacred institution and should be reserved for the union of one man and one woman. If this is the case - and most Americans would agree with him on this - then I have to ask: Why is the government at all involved in marrying people?

If marriage really is a sacred institution, then why is the government controlling it, especially in a nation that affirms separation of church and state?

You know what's funny? I don't ever feel the need to escape. I have a strong marriage. I like my life. You hear about these guys having midlife crises - I don't see that happening to me.

Unfenced by law, the unmarried lover can quit a bad relationship at any time. But you - the legally married person who wants to escape doomed love - may soon discover that a significant portion of your marriage contract belongs to the State, and that it sometimes takes a very long while for the State to grant you your leave.

The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding.

Right now, I'm not really thinking about marriage.

There was a time in the marriage when I could no longer look at myself in a mirror, couldn't feel I was a nice person. A bad relationship can do that, can make you doubt everything good you ever felt about yourself.

I thought the divorce statistics would never apply to me. I was beyond heartbroken when they did. But I got up and got on with it. I also kept my belief in marriage.

Since the dawn of time, traditional marriage - the union between one man and one woman - has been the building block of civilization, and at no point in our nation's history has that foundation been under more severe attack than now.

Marriage, at this point in my life? I'm not interested in it. Yet. Maybe later when I'm 35 or 40.

Marriage has just never interested me.

I have a lot of skepticism about marriage and monogamy.

Marriage feels like an industry with catering and really expensive bands.

Spending only what the country can afford, rewarding savings, encouraging independence, supporting marriage: people know that these things are common sense.

When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.

A marriage doesn't have to be perfect, but you can be perfect for each other.

To me marriage is for five or ten years.

I believe marriage should be between one man and one woman. That's my view, and that'll be the view of our state because I wouldn't sign a bill that - like the one that was in New York.

It's nice to know you have support. Last night I got a marriage proposal. I just laughed.

My thoughts are that marriage is between a man and a woman.

Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it.

When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.

Marriage is actually really terrifying. It doesn't work for many people.

The media seems to think only abortion and gay marriage are religious issues. Poverty is a moral issue, it's a faith issue, it's a religious issue.

Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.

A good marriage is different to a happy marriage.

Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that.

There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.

Gay marriage is the last bastion of, to me... as a legal, ceremonial, sentimental and religious side, it's one of the last steps. Retaining your job being one of the earlier steps, like, not getting kicked out of your job because you're gay.

Well, my wife and I were married in a toilet - it was a marriage of convenience!

I couldn't bear a marriage in which one partner hinges on the other.

I've always been clear, I support the traditional definition of marriage.

Of all actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all actions of our life tis most meddled with by other people.

Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.

Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.

Marriage is a risk I think it's a great and glorious risk, as long as you embark on the adventure in the same spirit.

Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.

Marriage is gonna be your stability through everything.

Marriage is a big deal, but who's to say I'm not going to pull a Vegas and get married to see what it's like for a minute?

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people it's also a political and economic contract of the highest order.

As somebody who, in my second marriage, insisted on a prenuptial agreement, I can also testify that sometimes it is an act of love to chart the exit strategy before you enter the union, in order to make sure that not only you, but your partner as well, knows that there will be no World War III should hearts and minds, for any sad reason, change.

I think it's unfortunate that there exists only one path in America to complete social legitimacy, and that is marriage. I think, for instance, that it would be far easier for Americans to elect a black president or a female president than an unmarried president.

Men go into marriage with virtually no expectations whatsoever. Ten years later, the men are delightfully surprised to find out that it's actually kind of nice, and the women have sort of had to take a nose dive from what they thought it was going to be.

I was a bartender for a long time, so I know how to make drinks, but I'm more likely to offer them than to have them. I think this is one of the reasons why I get to live longer than my great-grandmother did, and why I get to produce more writing than she did, and why my marriage isn't in dire straits.

I wanted my marriage to work, but it didn't.

Take this marriage thing seriously - it has to last all the way to the divorce.

I didn't think marriage worked. I thought everybody who was married was secretly miserable - that it was something they just put up with for their children.

For me working on the marriage and not making the easy choice of cheating was something that I could not do.

In 1989 when I switched from Democrat to Republican, with God as my witness, not one thing changed about what I believed about one man and one woman in a marriage or about diversity of color. That's a good thing.

I think marriage and athletes is a bad combination.

Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

That a marriage ends is less than ideal but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

The first breath of adultery is the freest after it, constraints aping marriage develop.

Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.

Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage.

I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make choices. If you want a good marriage, you must pay attention to that. If you want to be independent, go ahead. You can't have it all.

I was looking very much for a career. My second marriage to Stan Herman had ended, and I wanted very much to be independent, not take alimony from him, be on my own, do the right thing.

The only day I remember of my parents' marriage was the day my dad walked out. As I stood there at five years old, with my older sister and younger brother, I knew that he was gone.

Straight couples don't have to be monogamous to be married or married to be monogamous. Monogamy no more defines marriage than the presence of children does. Monogamy isn't compulsory and its absence doesn't invalidate a marriage.

I'm more afraid of marriage than death.

In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving - instead of actually getting up and leaving.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.

My father was very big on marriage.

I can look back at different times in my life when I felt I could not find my way out of whatever it was. I'm not necessarily talking about marriage, but I wanted to pack it in. I wanted to disappear. A lot of that has to do with being in the public eye.

I always felt that a marriage works best at a farm... where you're together and everybody has clear-cut roles they have chores, 'you take care of this' and you know. But it's hard.

The biggest financial pitfall in life is divorce. And the biggest reason for divorce is marriage.

If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all of those things, you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does.

If you've gone into a marriage and you haven't been clear about how you're going to handle money, how you want to raise kids, who is going to work or stay home or what have you, then you've set yourself up for failure.

Here in Hollywood you can actually get a marriage license printed on an Etch-A-Sketch.

There are few more powerful tools for promoting stability than the institution of marriage.

Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.

The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.

One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.

It devastates me now that I have been reduced to a Hollywood statistic - another joke marriage.

I'm all for same-sex marriage.

Defining marriage is a power that should be left to the states. Moreover, no state should be forced to recognize a marriage that is not within its own laws, Constitution, and legal precedents.

I believe in marriage. I believe marriage is a really important institution, it's one of the most important institutions we have.

Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career.

Women today have more of an overview of their lives and how marriage is or is not a part of it.

Marriage can be viewed as the waiting room for death.

There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.

Let us be honest with each other. The threat to marriage is not the gays. It is a lack of loving commitment - whether it is found in the form of neglect, indifference, cruelty or adultery, to name just a few manifestations of the loveless desert in which too many marriages come to grief.

I am fiscally prudent and socially progressive. I believe in protecting a woman's right to choose. I believe in marriage equality.

Marriage equality changed life for people.

I always say now that I'm in my blonde years. Because since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonde.

Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.

Now I'm a wife and a mother of two. It's a really different role. I always referred to No Doubt as a marriage, because that's what it's like to be together for so long and go through what we've been through. I can't really have that relationship with them anymore.

A miracle... my biggest accomplishment is my marriage so far. Because it's hard, everyone knows it's hard.

When I heard the royal family wanted to have me perform in celebration of Prince William's marriage, I knew I had to give them a little something. 'Wet' is the perfect anthem for Prince William or any playa to get the club smokin'.

I don't think there's anything they can say about me that I haven't said about myself already. And I would be an absolute total liar, and my fans would not respect me, if I said that my life and my marriage are perfect. But we absolutely love each other we have fun together - it's great.

On the one hand, the idea of marriage and the sort of traditional family life repulses me. But on the other hand, I long for it, you know what I mean? I'm constantly in conflict with things. And it is because of my past and my upbringing and the journey that I've been on.

A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.

People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.

The death of anti-gay hate speech is no doubt being hastened by the head-spinning speed with which gays as a group - to say nothing of gay marriage - are becoming an unremarkable and even quite traditional parts of American life.

Marriage is a lot of things - a source of love, security, the joy of children, but it's also an interpersonal battlefield, and it's not hard to see why: Take two disparate people, toss them together in often-confined quarters, add the stresses of money and kids - now lather, rinse, repeat for the rest of your natural life. What could go wrong?

Marriage is a religious and state issue.

I've had two terrific relationships, but both ended in marriage.

I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more.

Our marriage is between us. If we decide to continue being together or not, it's our business.

There's already a marriage clock, a career clock, a biological clock. Sometimes being a woman feels like standing in the lobby of a hotel, looking at the dials depicting every time zone in the world behind the front desk - except they all apply to you, and all at once.

I would absolutely, definitely never sell my wedding pictures to a magazine. I'd like it to be a special day, not a photo shoot. And once you've done that, your marriage becomes everybody else's business.

Cross-cultural marriage is difficult, especially when one person has to live in another country. But I thought there was a very good chance of it working because people grow together if they have a common passion.

Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.

I love the institution of marriage, and I love my marriage.

I think that sense of humor is important in marriage. A sense of humor gets people through marriage.

Marriage is hard work, period.

My grandparents got married at a very young age, and a lot of what I think about marriage is based on their relationship. I watched them over the years and saw how they dealt with everything together, as a team.

My grandparents got married at a very young age, and a lot of what I think about marriage is based on their relationship.

You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse.

Most Americans don't care about gay marriage.

I believe in traditional marriage.

Well, marriage is a very important part of our culture and our society. If we want to have a hopeful and decent society, we ought to aim for the ideal.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

No Congress ever has seen fit to amend the Constitution to address any issue related to marriage. No Constitutional Amendment was needed to ban polygamy or bigamy, nor was a Constitutional Amendment needed to set a uniform age of majority to ban child marriages.

I was born to be married. I just feel comfortable there. I love the idea of being partnered for ever. I love my girlfriend, we've been best friends since I was 18. There's not a thing we haven't been through except for marriage... We've had talks about what we would name our kids since we were in our 20s.

I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.

Marriage hasn't been my thing. But gay people, knock yourselves out!

The way that same-sex marriage should reach the federal level is that it absolutely should be decided by the Supreme Court as quickly as possible. It's a 14th Amendment issue. There's no argument about it.

In December 1998, I considered myself an expert on love. I was almost a year into a relationship, one that had grown more slowly than I had wished, but once it flowered it was much more stimulating than any marriage or relationship I had known.

I am very old-fashioned about marriage. It is for life and I mean it. I always knew that when I met the right girl, the life I had before - being single, in a band, girls everywhere - would be over.

Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.

I don't have this fantasy about marriage anymore. Everyone says it takes hard work. Well, it kind of does - and I'm much more pragmatic about romance than I used to be.

The rule with marriage is the less you talk about it the better, as far as I can tell.

While 45 of the 50 States have either a State constitutional amendment or a statute that preserves the current definition of marriage, left-wing activist judges and officials at the local levels have struck down State laws protecting marriage.

And that is why marriage and family law has emphasized the importance of marriage as the foundation of family, addressing the needs of children in the most positive way.

When David Arquette and I got engaged we started therapy together. I'd heard that the first year of marriage is the hardest, so we decided to work through all that stuff early.

Is marriage for ever? I think you get married with the intention that it will be, but who knows?

It's so easy to grow apart marriage takes work.

Marriage is an institution, and you must be fully committed to it.

I don't know if I'm built for marriage.

Sometimes divorce is better than marriage.

I'm an advocate for gay marriage. I have more gay friends than Carter has pills.

On both 'The Bachelor' and 'The Bachelorette,' it seems like proposing marriage is equivalent to saying, 'Let's date.' Everyone knows those aren't the same things.

The marriage didn't work out but the separation is great.

Traditional marriage is what should be sanctioned.

Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult.

It's all kind of a big illusion: the white picket fence and the perfect marriage and the kids. Check that box off, check that box off, and move forward.

I have a lot of respect for marriage.

This marriage is no one's business but our own.

In marriage, compromise nurtures the relationship.

I was gone so much in my first marriage. I love the moments when I engage with my youngest daughter now. It's not my thing to sit on the ground and play tea party, but I'll do it because it's a moment that will stick with me forever.

I believe in the institution of marriage. Of course being a Mormon, we believe in eternity rather than just till death do us part. If you really try hard, if you make it work, it's blissful. But I also know a marriage that isn't working can be painful.

The truth is you can have a great marriage, but there are still no guarantees.

Well you know, I think a lot of us in marriage know that you play different roles at different times. And Mitt can get very intense, and I can have the ability to kind of talk him off the rails sometimes and say, 'Hey let's look at what is really important and let's do that now.'

In marriage, it's always that give and take and rebalancing that we have to do in how we can help each other. But, I have been known at times by my sons, that is the name that they call me-the Mitt stabilizer.

God invented concubinage, satan marriage.

You know, there were major problems in my marriage.

I believe wholeheartedly in marriage. I don't exclusively mean a marriage with a legal contract, but any relationship that constitutes a marriage because of the quality of their relationship.

I think that two people who decide to live together in a marriage situation, they have an obligation to make the marriage work for them.

Studies have consistently shown that financial hardship is the biggest obstacle to heterosexual marriage, yet the Republican leadership has done precious little to help address the financial hardship faced by American families.

For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both.

We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want a family so we'll have to start thinking about that.

Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.

But I will agree that I think that things happen with people in relationships, that you might have been able to enjoy Morocco, say, if you weren't getting out of a bad marriage. You know what I mean?

I don't think young men or women should feel pressured into marriage. You shouldn't marry anyone, in my opinion, who you have to try hard for.

I've always been wary of marriage.

During the periods in my marriage when I chose to stay home with my kids rather than work as an attorney, it caused me no end of anxiety. Despite the fact that I knew I was contributing to our family by caring for our children, I still felt that my worth was less because I wasn't earning.

My kids have moved more in their twenties, you know, than my parents have moved in nearly 40-something years of marriage before they died. So there's a part of me that laments what we have lost, and that is a sense of community.

I am much more open to plural marriage than I was before, and I now support it in certain situations. I do believe it is right for some people. But our example in America today is gross abuse - I can't support it in fundamentalist compounds.

Provincial governments in Canada have terminated the positions of marriage commissioners who have, for personal religious convictions, not performed same sex marriages. It has happened in Saskatchewan.

Bishop Frederick Henry of Calgary is facing at least two official objections to his public statements along with expensive hearings before the Alberta Human Rights Commission for expressing his biblical views on same sex marriage.

Our national media refuses to report that even the Supreme Court did not say marriage was a human right in all cases nor did it say that the heterosexual definition violated anyone's right or that the heterosexual definition of marriage was unconstitutional.

Marriage commissioners who choose not to marry homosexuals are being fired. A Knights of Columbus chapter in British Columbia is in court because it chooses not allow a lesbian group to use its facility for marriage ceremonies. The list goes on.

My parents did not have a perfect marriage. It was pretty good, but it was not perfect. My marriage is not perfect. My wife is, but I happen to be imperfect. However, that does not discount the fact that the definition of marriage must be defended and protected.

I have to be asked, I guess, but I love the idea of marriage. I think it's beautiful. I'm such a romantic, and I always have been.

Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle.

There are many things that keep me from getting married. But there will be a time when marriage makes sense to me.

I think marriage is ghastly.

I love the idea of marriage. I definitely want marriage and little Kellans running around.

I don't know what my version of a relationship or marriage is yet, because the typical model seems a little broken to me.

In 1977 we played America and Europe three times, and Japan - my marriage suffered as a result. My then wife took the kids to Canada to be near her parents.

I'd love to have First Lady Michelle Obama over and ask, 'How do you make your marriage work?' I think the president is sexy as all get-out, but he has got to get on her nerves some kind of way. He's this wonderful, powerful man, but she sees him leaving his socks on the floor.

Well, my view before was a Western view, and I certainly understand marriage equality and civil rights, equal rights for all, but having visited developing nations and some of the poorest nations in the world, I realize how deep it goes and how much work really needs to be done to create equality for all.

And in a marriage you can't TRY and be married. You're married or you're not married... as far as I'm concerned.

Success is hard in general for most women. We now have such busy lives, and we're told we can do everything - you know, we can have the relationship and the marriage and the kids and the career.

There were times after my marriage ended where, you know, I really felt like I was at the bottom of a mountain, there was a great big, fog up there, and I'm never going to cross to the other side.

I don't want marriage. You know why? Because I did that. I did it for 32 years.

Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.

I support gay marriage. I support gay marriage because I believe Conservatives support the institutions of commitment.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

It is statistically proven that the strongest institution that guarantees procreation and continuity of the generations is marriage between one man and one woman. We don't want genocide. We don't want to destroy the sacred institution of marriage.

People need jobs, people need happy and successful lives there should be marriage between one man and one woman, there should the value of person from conception until natural death.

I'm always told that what I say is controversial. Why is it controversial? Because I speak from a tradition that has now fallen out of favor with the dominant media in this country. And so when I say things like marriage should be between one man and one woman, I'm called a bigot.

Marriage can be expensive, and if I lose millions then it'll be the best millions I've spent.

I don't do marriage. I think it's incredibly naff. And I don't like vulgar displays of ostentation.

The biggest problem in my life is trying to be the kind of man that I want to be, the father that I want to be, and how to process the failure of my marriage.

The secret of a good marriage is forgiving your partner for marrying you in the first place.

Marriage to Fernando offered shelter and security, but the shackle was the price I'd pay.

I had a very wise person tell me that he thinks marriage, when you're younger, you keep thinking you can fix things. That's what people do. And you can't really fix anything. It shouldn't be a massive difficult thing every day. Life's difficult enough.

Same-sex marriage would eliminate entirely in law the basic idea of a mother and a father for every child. It would create a society which deliberately chooses to deprive a child of either a mother or a father.

Marriage is too interesting an experiment to be tried only once.

I've often thought if I didn't make my marriage work, I would have failed at my one true shot at happiness.

You have to work for everything. Marriage should not be any different.

Marriage is something that needs to be worked on every day. I don't know if I'm the one to give marital advice since I've only been married for a little over a year, but marriage is certainly easier if you are open, trusting and loving.

Any sex outside of the marriage bond between a man and a woman is violating God's law.

I think one reason for a successful marriage is laughter. I think laughter gets you through the rough moments in a marriage.

I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.

Well, you know, the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.

How do you explain the bond between man and wife? Well, for one thing, it's private. What people do in their own marriage is their own business.

My first marriage was totally unsuitable and shouldn't have happened. It was a whirlwind, rebound thing. I was 23 or 24 - a baby.

Above all, we must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.

I find it disturbing that the media keeps referring to my marriage, since I got divorced in 1979. But the media never wants to let me forget.

My marriage had been impulsive. That marriage should have been short-lived instead of the 23 years it spanned.

The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest.

Well, marriage doesn't function in the way it used to in terms of deciding our fate, but it's in our heads, and it determines a lot of our actions. Like, right now, if you think about gay marriage - and they just started having the first gay marriages in New York - it shows what a potent idea marriage remains for people.

My second marriage had a lot to do with alcohol.

It is a fact that all women contribute more to marriage than men for the most part they have to change their place of living, their method of work, a great many women today changing their occupation entirely on marriage and they must even change their name.

Do the bishops seriously imagine that legalising gay marriage will result in thousands of parties to heterosexual marriages suddenly deciding to get divorced so they can marry a person of the same sex?

There is no greater excitement than to support an intellectual wife and have her support you. Marriage is a partnership in which each inspires the other, and brings fruition to both of you.

A successful marriage isn't necessarily one that lasts until you're dead.

I was very influenced by the musicals and romantic comedies of the 1930s. I admired Gene Harlow and such, which probably explains why, since the end of my marriage, I've dated nothing but a succession of blondes.

I haven't been faithful to my wife. Our marriage has been tainted with my infidelities. I was irresponsible.

I should have been out there having a wild time like all the other girls my age, but I wasn't. I was going home every night to what was, initially, a very happy marriage.

How long before we have, not just homosexual marriage, but homosexual unions between adult men and small boys?

Obviously, marriage is not a synonym for morality. But stable marriages and families do encourage moral behavior.

There is something wrong with our culture when the view that marriage is between one man and one woman, a view shared by half the nation, is portrayed as evidence of hatred.

If Republicans want to be seen as more compassionate, they should continue to stand proudly for the sanctify of life and marriage. And they should do so without apologizing.

Particularly black Americans, many of them, from quotes that I have seen and conversations I've had, are sort of insulted that the civil rights movement is being hijacked - the rhetoric of the civil rights movement is being hijacked for something like same sex marriage. Black Americans tend to have a higher degree of religiosity.

My argument is simple, which is, that for several thousand years in Western civilization, marriage has been the union of one man and one woman. Research is overwhelming that children need mothers and fathers.

If one is going to change the definition of marriage to be, quote, 'same sex,' then there is absolutely no valid argument constitutionally or rhetorically you can make against multiple people getting married. These are radical social changes.

Independence doesn't - doesn't equate to moderates. Millions of independents are pro-life. Millions of independents believe marriage is between a man and a woman.

I ran to my marriage, I was happily ready to take on marriage.

The weaker partner in a marriage is the one who loves the most.

Marriage is like a formality for me.

No, I think marriage is a great thing.

I also think it was important for me and Freddie to be able to have a lot of time to share our lives at the beginning of our marriage rather than my coming home at 9 or 10 at night from the set. Things have really worked out for the best for both of us.

Homosexuality is against nature. Sexual expression is permitted only within marriage, between man and woman, male and female. Anything else is an abnormality and is against nature.

I like being independent. I don't think that marriage means you're not independent, but right now I'm very comfortable, and I'm probably the happiest I've ever been. I feel solid. I feel safe.

I'm an activist for gay marriage equality and children's rights. I'm the face of Share Our Strength.

I know that the odds are against a marriage lasting 60 years.

My parents separated when I was four. It wasn't the smoothest of divorces, but then as my mother always says, you can't have a passionate marriage without a passionate divorce.

In the 1960s we were fighting to be recognized as equals in the marketplace, in marriage, in education and on the playing field. It was a very exciting, rebellious time.

She got the magazine on a Wednesday morning, and on Thursday announced our marriage was over.

After 45 years of marriage, when I have an argument with my wife, if we don't agree, we do what she wants. But, when we agree, we do what I want!

Even though marriage is doomed, if you turned it into a job you like and really work at it - it can be salvaged.

The only way marriage can work is if a man respects the woman and she is a thinking woman and he wants to work on the marriage.

Ultimately, I believe the only secret to a happy marriage is choosing the right person. Life is a series of choices, right?

I'm extremely fascinated by marriage. I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I'm not just going to leap into it, because that's not good for anybody.

This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry?

I love marriage. I failed at marriage, but I'd rather go into anything with gusto and fail than go into it half-assed.

For the life of me, I don't understand what honest motive there is in putting this in front of this body to philosophically debate marriage on a constitutional amendment that is not going to happen, and which is enormously divisive in all of our communities.

What I've learned about marriage: You need to have each other's back you have to be a kind of team going through life.

A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.

I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily.

I do support a constitutional amendment on marriage between a man and a woman, but I would not be going into the states to overturn their state law.

It's funny - I read that women look to chiseled-faced guys for one-night stands, and to round-faced guys for marriage. When I'm rounder in the face, I like to say, 'This is my long-term look.' Or 'This is my wife-and-kids look right here.'

I'm not a marriage expert, quite clearly.

You can't wake up one day and say 'I'm for gay marriage,' and wake up the next day and say 'I'm against it.' Wake up one day and say, 'I'm pro-choice,' and the next day wake up and say, 'I'm pro-life.' There's no credibility there.

I don't know if I believe in marriage. I believe in family, love and children.

I realize that of all people, I am no expert on parenting or marriage.

I suffered from a mild case of postpartum depression after my second child and the physical challenge of maintaining an overnight shift at CBS, a marriage, and two in diapers made the symptoms worse and everyone in the house paid the price.

Marriage of attraction is a gamble anyway, so you might as well marry into a family that is similar to your own, and make that much less of an adjustment. But the 'love marriage', as it is called, is equally common in India now. But it would be interesting to do a comparison of what would work better. Marriage is hard work, and it is a gamble.

My older sister was at the cusp of new wave, and I had older brothers from my father's first marriage who were rock 'n' roll guys, so I was exposed to a lot of popular culture.

I'm a heathen when it comes to marriage.

Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker.

I still believe in marriage.

If someone talks about union, fidelity, a monogamous relationship, love, blessing I would say it sounds like marriage to me. And blessing, you see, I think is undermining our sacrament of marriage.

It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.

Marriage, laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.

My first marriage was very traditional, in the church, and then we left the church and went to the reception hall. So this time, I'd like to go fairy tale all the way.

My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship looked like.

I refused David Letterman's proposal of marriage for obvious reasons, but thanks for asking.

Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

I am hoping this is my year to have children. I understand that I am possibly more European in my views of marriage. I am not going to say I'm not going to get married, but it's not my priority.

My mom and my dad were married 56 years, and the fact that I reconciled with my dad I think made their marriage a little bit better as well.

Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.

I believe I went through a divorce. My relationship with Ellen is no less significant as a marriage than my relationship to Coley.

Isn't that the ultimate homeland security, standing up and defending marriage?

Every society in the history of man has upheld the institution of marriage as a bond between a man and a woman. Why? Because society is based on one thing: that society is based on the future of the society. And that's what? Children. Monogamous relationships.

The Obama administration now has regulations that tells them that they can no longer promote marriage to these young girls. They can no longer promote marriage as a way of avoiding poverty and bad choices that they make in their life. They can no longer even teach abstinence education. They have to be neutral with respect to how people behave.

You know for many elected officials they all started in the same place. You know marriage is between a man and a woman, but they understand that they are moving inevitably, catching up to the American public.

Civil union is less than marriage. Marriage is a sacred and valued institution and ought to be afforded equal protection.

My parents' marriage was very rocky. They were always arguing. When they split up when I was in my 20s, my brother and I were both delighted because we knew they weren't good for each other.

Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man's life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it.

French novels generally treat of the relations of women to the world and to lovers, after marriage consequently there is a great deal in French novels about adultery, about improper relations between the sexes, about many things which the English public would not allow.

My marriage? Up to now everything's okay. But it's a real marriage - imperfect and very difficult. It's all about people evolving somewhat simultaneously through their lives. I think we've emotionally evolved.

My mother and stepfather were married 43 years, so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And, you know, it's just a number.

I decided he'd changed so much that a whole new book was required and that book actually I can say so was the first to say that the marriage was in trouble and the Prince didn't like at all and my book was being serialized in the Sunday Times over five weeks.

My parents separated when I was four. It wasn't the smoothest of divorces, but then as my mother always says, 'You can't have a passionate marriage without a passionate divorce.'

Marriage gives you a new respect for a person.

Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit.

Redefining marriage will have huge implications for what is taught in our schools, and for wider society. It will redefine society since the institution of marriage is one of the fundamental building blocks of society. The repercussions of enacting same-sex marriage into law will be immense.

I think the institution of marriage is a great idea, but for me it's just an idea.

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage.

What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many?

My relationship with Dean was great, but ultimately it wasn't a fulfilling marriage for either of us.

My mother, brave woman, lost her whole family when she decided to marry a black man in the '60s. When the marriage fell apart, she had to come back to her family.

I rise today in support of Bill C-38, the Civil Marriage Act. I rise in support of a Canada in which liberties are safeguarded, rights are protected and the people of this land are treated as equals under the law.

Marriage made more sense when it was indissoluble. It's the woman trying to cope with the strains of a one-parent family who will suffer most from the relaxation of the divorce laws.

I never thought my marriage could be stronger, or I could be closer to Bill. We prayed on our own, but now we prayed together and you'll never know how much that means until you do it.

Marriage ain't easy, but it's great most of the time.

To me, marriage is partly a religious thing and I'm not religious.

I'm not eager to jump into marriage again. I'm in the corner right now, wearing my dunce cap. That area is obviously a nightmare.

What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.

The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.

I went nearly 30 years without being able to really seriously entertain marriage or a family. In fact, the word 'marriage' would actually give me a shake when it was brought up.

I think the institute of marriage is a noble thing. The idea of a partner for life is incredibly romantic. But now we're living to 100. A hundred years ago people were dying at age 37. Til death do us part was a much different deal.

I never thought I'd spend all my life with Gary. I suppose I was quite cynical about marriage. But with Jude, I knew right from the beginning: there was an electricity I'd never felt before. It was so easy, we talked for hours. It was a relief, really.

I guess because the shows were activist in their own way - the marriage of my public activism and my career activism, you know - people understand me very well. They also understand there's a very strong bipartisan part in all of this.

I honestly believe you can never tell if a relationship is going to last. In my own marriage, which is going on 14 years, I don't think of it as 'I'm going to be with this person forever.' Instead, I think of more like, 'I'll probably be with this person for the next six weeks. Then I'll re-evaluate.'

The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we have seen, is forbidden him.

I don't know why, but the older I get the more interested I get in my parents' marriage. And it's interesting to be married yourself, too, because there is an inevitable comparison.

My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father came and had a life in the United States one way and my mother had a different one, and I was very aware of those things. I continue to wonder about it, and I will continue to write about it.

I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage.

There is a big misconception about arranged marriage. Yes, it can mean that you meet someone and then have to marry them, but this was my mother saying, 'I'm going to introduce you to so-and-so - If you don't like them, fair enough.'

Marriage is an institution and that's where a couple finish up.

No person connected with me by blood or marriage will be appointed to office.

In a sacred ground like marriage, you find yourself out of it at certain times for reasons unknown that can be destructive. There could be a demon that kind of comes out and overtakes you.

I think that, as with marriage, you just know when it's time to have kids.

Marriage is about the most expensive way for the average man to get laundry done.

American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them.

The marriage of a man and woman is the most enduring human institution, honored in all cultures and by every religious faith. It's in this institution that children are meant to be nurtured. We know this after thousands of years of human experience.

Marriage is sacred and protected and has nothing to do with violating our civil rights.

If we change the definition of marriage to be more inclusive, then it is logical to argue that we should broaden the definition so that won't exclude anyone.

But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.

Marriage encourages the men and women who together create life to unite in a bond for the protection of children.

Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.

So far, 44 States, or 88 percent of the States, have enacted laws providing that marriage shall consist of a union between a man and a woman. Only 75 percent of the States are required to approve a constitutional amendment.

When I talk about the importance of the institution of marriage, I think of the commitment and the significance of standing in front of those closest to you and promising fidelity to your partner 'til death do you part.'

I support allowing gay couples to marry because of - not in spite of - my values. And many of those values are the same ones deeply held by those who do not believe in gay marriage.

Marriage is a team effort. Both of us share that philosophy.

Sooner or later they are going to live in a New York City where gay marriage is not only legal, but it's common and they don't even notice.

I've exchanged messages and photos of an explicit nature with about six women over the last three years. For the most part, these communications took place before my marriage, though some have sadly took place after. To be clear, I have never met any of these women or had physical relationships at any time.

There was no religious ceremony connected with marriage among us, while on the other hand the relation between man and woman was regarded as in itself mysterious and holy.

If I felt, in the event of a royal wedding, inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or civil partnership, I would just be grateful to have an idea for the poem. And if I didn't, I'd ignore it.

But I wanted marriage for myself. I was not calculating about it. I wish I was more calculating.

I wasn't looking for another marriage. I had been married before. He is a nice man - a geologist, an Ernest Hemingway type. But Paul and I married because of convention.

If it's not working before you get married, marriage isn't going to fix it.

I was a Christian. I didn't want to have sex before marriage, I was a bit uptight and not very self-confident. I was a virgin until I was 26.

I think the Mother is gradually revealing itself to me and taking over. But it is not the Mother alone. It is the Mother and the Father, the male and the female, sort of gradually having their marriage.

When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites instead it fragments.

Same-sex marriage is not the future.

Europe, which gave us the idea of same-sex marriage, is a dying society, with birthrates 50 percent below replacement.

Since I've been in the U.S. I've lost the back of my heart, 15 ft. of intestine and my marriage - and God, I miss my intestine.

Yes, the marriage proposal was shot. Michael excluded the dialogue from the final edit.

Marriage isn't a carnival ride.

I was just so lucky to have a wonderful life after a tough marriage.

Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what's going on in another person's marriage.

My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20.

We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.

Marriage is overdone. As long as there are people, people are going to find it interesting.

Do not miss your children's childhood. Do not be away 200 nights a year as I was. Do not put strains on your marriage or family.

I definitely believe in marriage.

I think long-lasting, healthy relationships are more important than the idea of marriage. At the root of every successful marriage is a strong partnership.

To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?

It's only fair that stable gay relationships of long standing should have the same rights and responsibilities as married couples. I know the image of gay marriage is to some people horrific and ludicrous.

It's nice to be able to work I'd love to be able to do another TV show I could do in Chicago so I could live and work in the same place. It's hard being a parent and being in a good marriage, and it all takes a lot of work, but if you're not there you can't do any of it.

I oppose any attempt to grant homosexual unions the same legal privileges that civil government affords to traditional marriage and family life.

We need uniform protection of traditional marriage. You can't have different definitions on something as fundamental as marriage. The Marriage Protection Amendment is the only solution to this problem.

Out of control judicial activism threatens traditional marriage in America.

I have married thriteen couples. I'm about to do a marriage next month.

I think it's best if there's an amendment that goes on the ballot where the people can weigh in. Every time this issue has gone on the ballot, the people have voted to retain the traditional definition of marriage as recently as California in 2008.

I think you may see again a rise at the federal government level for a - a call for the federal constitutional amendment, because people want to make sure that this definition of marriage remains secure, because after all, the family is the fundamental unit of government.

Their lives have been largely defined by failure and you would think the prospect of marriage, which is supposed to be bountiful and hopeful, it's just really another kind of tangential thing in his life.

Obama's position on marriage is brazenly cynical.

The biggest surprise about our marriage is that Erin was out there.

I say I never wanna get married. I feel trapped with the idea of marriage. How can you really be with somebody forever? I'd get bored! As I get older, I don't settle. I'd rather tell somebody 'This is what I want - take it or leave it.'

To be honest, marriage doesn't scare me and that, it's just once you've been together for so long, if you haven't got any kids it's just a big expensive day out for everyone else to enjoy, isn't it?

I'm not really interested in thinking about marriage or kids at all.

Marriage takes work - it doesn't just happen.

I've never quite understood why people marry marriage is just an invented structure.

I think gay marriage should be the national law.

I would like it to be known that I have decided not to marry Group Capt. Peter Townsend. Mindful of the church's teaching that Christian marriage is indissoluble, and conscious of my duty to the Commonwealth, I have resolved to put these considerations before any others.

We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise.

A lot of people seem to want to make the institution of marriage substitute for a real relationship.

You never go into a marriage expecting to get divorced. You go into a marriage expecting it's going to last forever, and you have a lot of ways you dream about the future. You have all these expectations, and then you have to adjust those expectations, and it can be a very unnerving, confusing time.

I don't know what makes a marriage work. My husband and I don't have it right at all it's very tough on him. From the outside it looks like it's all about me - I have a glorious career and he doesn't.

After 14 years, it better be a real marriage, you know? We do have a great time together. We are really lucky.

There are going to be peaks and valleys in everything - in your marriage, in your job, in your life. So just enjoy the peaks and ride out the valleys. Just try not to do anything too rash.

Good production is like a beautiful marriage. It makes a happy home.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the definition of a marriage as between one man and one woman.

Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.

Forty-five States, as the gentleman just said, have determined by people that were elected by the people of that State that marriage is the definition of one man and one woman.

I figure no matter how old you are, it's always going to be your first marriage and no life experience is going to make you a better judge of who you should marry.

Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humbug.

Gay marriage has jumped out of the closet on to the front page. Everyone from the president of the U.S. to retired four-star general Colin Powell is embracing the issue, now supported by most Americans. Still, a few people, like former First Lady Laura Bush appear to be conflicted.

It was the courts, of course, that took away prayer from our schools, that took away Bible reading from our schools. It's the courts that gave us same-sex marriage. So it is quite a battlefield, and the Supreme Court is the highest court in the land.

I was one of 14 senators to vote against the Defense of Marriage Act. I thought it was a harsh and unnecessary thing to do to people across this country who care enough about each other to want to be married.

At my core, what I think we need to do is to get the basics right again. We need to rebuild our family structure, stay away from redefining marriage, and stand by marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

I believe in the sanctity of marriage.

My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started.

When I first started talking about gay marriage, most people in the gay community looked at me as if I was insane or possibly a fascist reactionary.

So I really did stop and change what I saw I was about, and really try to put that principle into play as the center of everything - my friendships, my marriage, my career, my family, my way of being in the world. And that changed everything for me.

People ask what the secret of a happy marriage is. If there is one, it's 'don't talk about it.'

I look back to when I got divorced in the late 1970s. When that happened, I was so broken up. After that, I decided to seek God for my life and my next marriage.

I took the fear of marriage from my parents' relationship, because I didn't want to end up in a relationship like that, whereas my brothers and sisters learnt a lesson from it and made sure they didn't carry it on into their own marriages.

I don't think he cheated on me. During the marriage, I think he was there.

I was made to believe there was a plan in place for ending Donald's previous marriage. I pulled away because I wanted to allow him the time to deal with his wife.

My parents were both from Scotland, but had been resident in Lower Canada some time before their marriage, which took place in Montreal and in that city I spent most of my life.

I have a very intense marriage.

I'm looking forward to talking to Bill Parcells, too, and to seeing how that marriage with Jerry Jones goes.

Let me first state that I believe that marriage is a sacred union between one man and one woman.

Second, marriage is an issue that our Founding Fathers wisely left to the states.

In a broken marriage, it can be challenging and tough to get that work/life balance. I love performing but I also love being a mum, and I hate having to choose between them.

I had a happy marriage and a nice wife. I accomplished everything you can. What more can you want?

I went through a long period of time in that marriage when I didn't believe anything was my fault. I had to face what my part was, and only because of that difficult work was I able to trust a man again.

I do not support a constitutional amendment to prohibit gay marriage.

Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate.

I've always believed the two best anti-poverty programs are work and marriage.

The old welfare system was hurting people by discouraging work and marriage. Welfare reform, and now this legislation, will build on the understanding that work and strong families are the foundation upon which we build our future.

I think that marriage is an amazing institution and should be preserved, and you can have great marriages, and you must because sharing your life with someone is like the greatest thing. And I loved being able to set a good example for that on television.

I think I'm a combination of very simple pleasures and the fact I've read a lot of books. I don't think it's a binary opposition across the board in humans and I think I'm an example that it's not. I'm hosting gay marriage rallies and I have tons of guns at home. There's a lot of middle ground in the world and I'm one of those people.

Men act out like they're horrified by marriage, but when they find the woman of their dreams, they love it.

Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.

I feel strongly for gay marriage to be accepted.

Next month, I will celebrate my 30th anniversary of marriage with my beautiful bride, Vicki. Our marriage has been a blessing. I have gained even more respect for the institution over the past 3 decades and will defend it against attack.

I listen to the people. That was a big reason for my life, maybe the main reason, I'm singing because I love it when people say to me, 'Thank you.' I thank them. It's a marriage.

I mean, for all of his faults and the troubles in his marriage, Bill Clinton is still married to a girl he met in the library 25 years ago at school. Can we say that about many of our other leaders today in America, including on the right wing?

Today, I will vote in support of the Marriage Protection Amendment. I shall do so because like President Bush, I strongly believe that marriage should be between a man and a woman.

I am for gay marriage. Or same-sex marriage. I don't want to say it the wrong way. I think people are sensitive to it. I have been painted as being this right-wing zealot on choice. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit.

Although we hardly see each other off the set, Joy and I get along well when we do. As far as the marriage between Nathan and Haley, I think they are young and will see the reality of the situation eventually.

The whole Haley-Nathan marriage deal was a pretty good twist huh? I hope we got all of you with it. That particular story line even suprised me when I read it, it's a good one and it'll provide for some good stories to come.

There are powerful emotions that bring two people together in wonderful harmony in a marriage. Satan knows this, and would tempt you to try these emotions outside of marriage. Do not stir emotions meant to be used only in marriage.

I think that every state in the union should recognize same-sex marriage.

We can practice tolerance while still holding true to cultural values that protect the institution of marriage as a union between only a man and a woman.

I think there are some people in life who are not marriage material and Chris is one of them.

It was not a healthy marriage for long time. It was never about another man, it was about what my and Dennis's relationship could not sustain.

I'm the only man in the world with a marriage licence made out to whom it may concern.

I used to have a theory actually that, if you've had a good childhood, a good marriage and a little bit of money in the bank, you're going to make a lousy comedian.

Stability is why society has an interest in marriage.

The state's interest in marriage is stability. Generally speaking, polygamy does not work for stability. Inherent in the whole polygamous movement is a deep and abiding misogyny and denigration of women. So polygamy is objectionable on lots of grounds.

College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage.

Instead, I think over the years we have cut the strength of marriage and relationships by the law and weakened the institution. We have tried to deal with relationships with no-fault divorce, with child custody, with so many other avenues and it has not helped.

Culture and tradition have to change little by little. So 'new' means a little twist, a marriage of Japanese technique with French ingredients. My technique. Indian food, Korean food I put Italian mozzarella cheese with sashimi. I don't think 'new new new.' I'm not a genius. A little twist.

But to sustain a marriage for 50 years, you have to get real a little bit and find someone who is understanding and who you can grow with. My mom always says, 'Marry the man who loves you a millimeter more.'

The most important thing for a good marriage is to learn how to argue peaceably.

Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become.

I'm a little skeptical about using the Constitution this way, but I also believe marriage is between a man and a woman and that the courts shouldn't legislate this matter.

You're not just going out there, maybe sacrificing your own life. There's also sacrifices still going on at home. You can serve in the military and have a good marriage, but you just need to be aware of it so you can take those steps to take care of it.

I'd love to have children, and I think marriage is great, I really do.

It's very trying on a marriage when you're doing a one hour show, week after week after week. You don't have enough time for people that maybe you should have top priority.

To us marriage is first, everything else is second.

I do not believe that defending traditional marriage between one man and one woman excludes anybody or usurps anybody's civil rights and denies anybody their civil rights.

If you leave your wife and you don't ever contact her again, that says something about how you felt about the marriage.

I found marriage somewhat stifling. I don't know that I am the kind of man who ought to be married.

What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters.

I know I'm guilty of and I think a lot of people are guilty of sort of getting starry-eyed with love and sort of looking over the bad things and keep going and you don't really prepare for how much work marriage really is.

That is why I fought against abortion and that is why if I were still in the Senate I would be doing everything I could to defend the sanctity of marriage.

I'm knocking our pitiful, pathetic lawmakers. And I thank God that President Bush has stated, we need a Constitutional amendment that states that marriage is between a man and a woman.

I know in my own marriage I stayed in it to provide my son with what I thought was a stable background and to give him what I thought was the family life a child should have with two parents. But that isn't always the best way, and it took me taking my son to therapy after the divorce to really see it.

I think church and state should remain entirely separate at all costs, and that the decision of religious marriage should be of each faith to debate and decide free of political influence.

I have a wonderful marriage and two great kids.

I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy.

I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.

I know there are a lot of readers that think I've got a very crappy marriage just because of the things going on with Rick and Lori but there's really nothing that's been like a mirror. I'm just making this stuff up.

No Government has the moral authority to dismantle the universally understood meaning of marriage.

The church's teaching on marriage is unequivocal, it is uniquely, the union of a man and a woman and it is wrong that governments, politicians or parliaments should seek to alter or destroy that reality.

If marriage can be redefined so that it no longer means a man and a woman but two men or two women, why stop there? Why not allow three men or a woman and two men to constitute a marriage?

There is no doubt that, as a society, we have become blase about the importance of marriage as a stabilising influence and less inclined to prize it as a worthwhile institution.

Clearly, if it is sensible to hold a referendum on independence, it is crucial that we have one on marriage. It is the only way the country can move forward on this issue. Let all those who have a view on this subject place their trust in the Scottish people and let Scotland decide.

I believe it's a real tedious hostage negotiation to have a marriage be what it is.

When I got married in my twenties, I had a happy marriage and happy kids but at some point in time I let it go off the rails I let it go off the rails.

My parents had a wonderful marriage, but it was a very dependent relationship. My mother was entirely dependent on my father because that's how it was in those days.

President Bush has a record of cutting taxes, has provided a prescription drug benefit for seniors, has upheld the Second Amendment and remains committed to stopping liberal activists judges who are redefining marriage.

The definition of marriage cannot be disputed. It's right there in black and white and it's been the same since the start of Wikipedia.

Well, my personal mission statement is that we want marriage equality in all 50 states. We want it not to be a state-by-state issue. We don't want it to be something the majority is voting on. I don't think the civil rights of any minority should be in the hands of any majority.

As an actor, you just want to work, and then you just want to be on a show or have a job that you love, and you hope that job will last - those things have happened. To have that platform to then talk about something that is very personal to me like marriage equality, it feels like a gift. I try and really respect that voice and not abuse it.

We are very puritan in America. We still hold true to these really antiquated values, this idea of the sanctity of marriage.

They make Spy Kids, they make Scream, they make A Scary Movie. This doesn't do that, so it could be a very bad marriage. I'm trying to keep this potential nightmare quiet because we're just finishing editing.

I routinely never discuss my marriage. It's nice to have things in my life that are totally mine.

I've always wanted to be independent and answer for myself. That probably is the part of me I would class to be feminist. I'd like to have children marriage I have a bit of an issue with.

No marriage can stand up under the strain of incessant association.

I'm not that big a fan of marriage as an institution and I don't know why women need to have children to be seen as complete human beings.

I have been doing marriage counseling for about 15 years and I realized that what makes one person feel loved, doesn't make another person feel loved.

I have a lady, she's a great lady. I love her a lot, she loves me. We're on the same page. Whenever that day happens when we're not on the same page we'll move forward with it. We're interested in having our lives be our lives right now and not a third person's vis-a-vis marriage and whatever that means.

It couldn't be a simpler answer. Marriage doesn't really mean anything to me. I feel like in many ways marriage is more for the families of the couple than for the people involved, so I don't gravitate to it.

It wasn't a good idea to work on 'Naked' in the first months of a marriage. I was living apart from my wife in a flat overflowing with books I was reading for the part.

I have no useful theories about love and marriage.

Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.

My marriage to my husband, Bart Conner in 1996 is my proudest personal moment.

When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was, biology and anthropology. I was around 16 years old when I made this particular choice of academic pursuit.

I didn't know that President Bush would endorse a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.

It won't take 40 years for opposition to same-sex marriage to dissipate.

I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.

I had only two offers of marriage in my life, and I refused both.

I remember driving home one evening while they were reviewing the papers on the radio. One of the articles was about me separating from my wife. It's a weird thing to listen to a news report about the break-up of your marriage.

In those days, the late 1970s, one of the leading politicians was a soon-to-be uncle by marriage of Arnold Schwarzenegger, named Ted Kennedy.

No candidate can win a presidential race advocating gay marriage and opposing the military action in Iraq.

Public-opinion polls show that Americans split about evenly on civil unions. But when the words 'gay marriage' are presented, they break 3-to-1 against it.

Writing and singing does give me some kind of release from the demons of my past, it is a therapy of sorts, but to be honest, my marriage played a more important role in the acceptance of myself than performance has ever done.

More than 1.1 million taxpayers in Pennsylvania will enjoy a lower tax rate, more than 1.4 million married couples will benefit from the reduction in the marriage penalty, and more than 1.1 million parents will have the advantage of an increased child tax credit.

I've never understood what the upside of marriage would be for me personally.

I love being in a relationship, but marriage isn't for me.

My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.

My parents have a wonderful marriage, for many years. But I can't commit myself for such a long time.

My father was a Catholic, but my mother wasn't. She had to do that weird deal you do as a Catholic - they deign to sanction your marriage and you have to bring your children up as Catholics.

It's very different than it use to be. I think everybody has a lot more experience in how to be in a relationship - whether it's a marriage or a significant other or a business or a friend.

Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats.

There are more than 30 states, who either by statute or constitutional amendment, have defined marriage as being between a man and a woman.

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

The president strongly believes that marriage in this country ought to be between a man and a woman. He also believes it is something that ought to be decided by the people. He doesn't believe that judges ought to impose their will on the people.

All I know is it destroyed my family, it destroyed my marriage to Sylvester and I will never get over it.

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

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.

Marriage is another trap. If you are someone who likes independence, it's another stamp against that. And you have to swear to fidelity.

A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not.

It is sad that the Republican leadership is not as interested as they say they are in protecting the institution of marriage as they are in waging a campaign to divide and distract the American people from the real issues that need to be addressed.

A band is not a marriage. There are no oaths of allegiance. If you feel your life will be better served by splitting up the group, you've got to do it - but of course it does cause problems.

I've never really been very good at marriage. It's one of my failures. I've tried my best, but I do realise the common denominator is me it's something I'm doing.

Marriage is important to me and I love the idea of being married.

Well I don't know that I'm okay any more than anyone else is okay, I lead a happy life and a very full one - I have a happy marriage and my kids are all cheerful, and no one is finding fault with me, personally.

Heather knows why and when her marriage ended with Richie and she knows why my marriage ended with Charlie.

My marriage was breaking up, and my marriage with Chong was breaking up. I had to come back and kind of start on my own again.

It's about time we all faced up to the truth. If we accept the radical homosexual agenda, be it in the military or in marriage or in other areas of our lives, we are utterly destroying the concept of family.

I think that's one of the most difficult things in any marriage - in order to build anything, you must be together. You can't build anything over the telephone.

When I got political that blew our marriage out of the water. I was not the same person and I admit that.

I worked with John, but I had enough sense to walk just a little ways behind him. I could have made more records, but I wanted to have a marriage.

But the fact that same-sex marriage is still an issue is insane. Thinking love knows a sex is ridiculous.

Legislation to create a new 10 percent tax bracket, reduce the marriage penalty, cut the tax rate on dividends and capital gains, and increase the child tax credit have been essential elements in this economic expansion.

I only gave out my opinion that same sex marriage is against the law of God.

I highly suggest marriage to all my friends who are dating.

I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president.

You can't have a happy family if you don't have a happy marriage.

There's not a lot of room anymore for what I call 'made-up' drama. The drama comes from real places now - marriage takes work and focus, the kid stuff takes patience and commitment. And if you don't grow as people and as a couple, within all of that, then you've got some real drama.

It's the best marriage of songs and production. But I have to say, I have an affinity for Bossanova.

New Orleans, more than many places I know, actually tangibly lives its culture. It's not just a residual of life it's a part of life. Music is at every major milestone of our life: birth, marriage, death. It's our culture.

Let me be clear. I support the definition of marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriage between persons in which there can be traced the most distant relationship. I go for the improvement instead of the deterioration of our race.

Marriage is all about knowing the ins and outs and the intimate details, and your wife is supposed to be the person you know best. But my brother and I think alike, know everything about one another, and when we get together, we block everything else out. Nothing exists in our world except for us.

Marriage is wild. I thought it was this perfect land of happiness and joy. Wrong! After you say you do, you don't for a long time.

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

I think there is a generation gap. I personally look forward to, as our generation becomes the leaders, you are gonna see a change, and I think hopefully gay marriage will be a part of that country.

Many women cut back what had to be done at home by redefining what the house, the marriage and, sometimes, what the child needs. One woman described a fairly common pattern: I do my half. I do half of his half, and the rest doesn't get done.

Obviously, the anti-ERA people are tickled about my ordeal because it proves that the ERA breaks up families. When they point out that feminism is a dangerous thing, I just say marriage is pretty precarious too.

In response to our fast-food culture, a 'slow food' movement appeared. Out of hurried parenthood, a move toward slow parenting could be growing. With vital government supports for state-of-the-art public child care and paid parental leave, maybe we would be ready to try slow love and marriage.

Traditional marriage between a man and a woman has been a cornerstone of our society for generations. If we are going to change that, it ought to be done by the will of the people.

I don't particularly think marriage is a sane thing.

I'm receiving 300 to 500 letters every week from people telling me that God used my stories to save their marriage or to introduce them to Christ or to heal a relationship that had been broken.

Marriage, like death, is a debt we owe to nature.

But I don't think that it's a form of family that I would be comfortable in. I've found a way to this character and this family, but I still believe that a marriage is between two people and not seven or three.

The thing is, when I had my first success it did coincide with the end of my first marriage, and because I went on to have a very, very unhappy two years, I don't think I equate career success with personal happiness.

When you're suddenly pregnant and no one is standing by your side, even if you're in your 30s, it's a hard conversation. I'm a traditional girl, and I believe in marriage, and I just always thought that's the way I'd be doing this.

And my marriage was perfect when I wasn't famous.

I think that sense of humor is important in marriage. A sense of humor gets people through marriage.

The fact is, I am in my third marriage and I do not believe in divorce. But I was half the problem, I guarantee you. More than half the problem. I couldn't negotiate with the other women.

Only after I faced the unhappiness of my first marriage did I start on the path of personal growth.

I hope gay marriage will be legal in every state.

The activists will not stop in trying to impose their extreme views on the rest of us, and they have now plotted out a state-by-state strategy to increase the number of judicial decisions redefining marriage without the voice of the people being heard.

The very idea of marriage is basic to recognition as equals in our society any status short of that is inferior, unjust, and unconstitutional.

The United States Supreme Court has repeatedly held that marriage is one of the most fundamental rights that we have as Americans under our Constitution.

Each experience I go through - marriage, my public life, my personal life - I'm learning as I go.

Gay marriage won't be more of an issue 25 years from now than interracial marriage is today.

I've done an informal, anecdotal survey about marriage, and I've found no evidence that it brings happiness.

My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage.

There's something about marriage that is not as intensely romantic or interesting as a couple's first meeting.

I finally got a chance to talk to my daughter from my previous marriage. I just got married May 3 to my beautiful wife, but we don't see each other much.

Civil marriage, like all civil rights provided by the government, must be provided equally to all Americans.

Marriage and the creation of families has been an integral part of our society since its creation it should not be defined without the kind of involvement by the people which a constitutional process would require.

We are confident that the Supreme Court will soon see the direction that this country is headed and enshrine marriage as a constitutional right for all.

Marriage, even the best marriages are tough.

I lost my second marriage because of drinking, and I loved the woman very much. But I thought I needed booze to write. I'm glad I was disabused.

People used to say my son looked like a Mexican Biggie. And when he was first born, memories of Biggie... you know, we didn't always have the greatest days. For at least half the length of our marriage we were separated, so everyday was definitely not a good day.

I guess you kind of got to realize that once you in a marriage, whatever it is, you gotta deal with it. Not necessarily that you got to accept it, but you have to deal with it and try your best to make it work for you, for the both of you.

The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.

My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage.

I got married at 22 and remained in an abusive marriage for 10 years. I made up my mind that that was never going to happen to me again. I made a brave step to walk out in a society when you didn't walk out of an abusive marriage. It was mental and physical abuse.

Everything in life is a lesson and I have learned from each marriage. Yes, I've made mistakes but every experience is a learning curve.

If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.

I left my marriage knowing I'd have to work. I have.

Religious institutions should have religious freedom on this issue. No church or minister should ever have to conduct a marriage that is inconsistent with their religious beliefs. But I think as a civil institution, this issue's time has come and we need to move forward.

Our black president can't say that he's for gay marriage. That is upsetting to me.

Marriage has been defined by every legislature that has ever sat in the United States from every State, now 50 States, the same way, but now we have unelected judges altering and changing that fundamental institution.

There's lots of problem solving in any marriage, but when you have this collective goal that is a human being, it's an inspiring rally point.

To say I drank my way into marriage isn't much of an exaggeration, and it's none at all to say I drank my way out of it.

Marriage: love, honor, and negotiate.

I've learned this is a very long marriage doing a television show. I like the people that I work with to be people I enjoy, so you want to cast people who are as excited and enthusiastic as you are.

I am a firm believer in marriage. In the future I will be married.

Marriage is one of the most sacred human institutions. I asked our Senators, as many South Dakotans have done, to protect marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

Other than marriage, she doesn't control me and I don't control her.

My wife disagrees with 100 percent of what I say. That's the same marriage I have.

I'm not feeling very well - I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course.

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

They certainly give very strange names to diseases.

Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it.

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother.

Doctors are just the same as lawyers the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only pain we obey.

Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.

A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.

You may not be able to read a doctor's handwriting and prescription, but you'll notice his bills are neatly typewritten.

Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.

Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.

The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.

I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso.

As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified.

Time is generally the best doctor.

My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.

When I told my doctor I couldn't afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my X-rays.

The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves most things, in fact, are better in the morning.

Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.

I was always shocked when I went to the doctor's office and they did my X-ray and didn't find that I had eight more ribs than I should have or that my blood was the color green.

In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

The doctors x-rayed my head and found nothing.

I'm 86 and my doctor used to tell me to slow down - at least he did until he dropped dead.

Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back in the shell.

You can die of the cure before you die of the illness.

People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures.

The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy - to heal, as it is termed.

It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.

Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.

When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much.

Flying back from New York, the flight attendant said 'God, I wished you were here yesterday, we had a stroke on the plane. I said, if I have a stroke on a plane, I hope the pretend doctor isn't the one on the plane. I want a real doctor.

America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world.

I went to the doctor and he said I had acute appendicitis, and I said compared to who?

I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.

I'm by no means condemning prescription medicine for mental health. I've seen it save a lot of people's lives.

Mammograms are really sort of a gift. You can either catch something early or count your lucky stars because nothing was discovered. Either way, you're ahead of the game.

If you look at the human condition today, not everyone is well fed, has access to good medical care, or the physical basics that provide for a healthy and a happy life.

Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created.

In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.

Medical liability reform is not a Republican or Democrat issue or even a doctor versus lawyer issue. It is a patient issue.

The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.

A pregnant woman facing the most dire circumstances must be able to count on her doctor to do what is medically necessary to protect her from serious physical harm.

I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for.

Honestly, being a doctor could make you more close minded than regular people.

As a physician, I know many doctors want to utilize new technology, but they find the cost prohibitive.

I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor.

One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

Doctors coin money when they do procedures but family medicine doesn't have any procedures.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed.

These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I'm not downplaying that.

We can't get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can't just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare.

I had the privilege of practicing medicine in the early '60s, before we had any government. It worked rather well, and there was nobody on the street suffering with no medical care.

If you're so pro-life, do me a favour: don't lock arms and block medical clinics. If you're so pro-life, lock arms and block cemeteries.

Whenever the people are for gay marriage or medical marijuana or assisted suicide, suddenly the 'will of the people' goes out the window.

The rich man's dog gets more in the way of vaccination, medicine and medical care than do the workers upon whom the rich man's wealth is built.

Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know.

Folks, the most insidious part of this whole health care scheme is that all of these vast medical expenditures will become nothing more than government budget items. We individuals will no longer exist. The relationship between a government and citizen will change forever.

Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history.

A Harvard Medical School study has determined that rectal thermometers are still the best way to tell a baby's temperature. Plus, it really teaches the baby who's boss.

I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What happens after death?

No one should have to choose between medicine and other necessities. No one should have to use the emergency room every time a child gets sick. And no one should have to live in constant fear that a medical problem will become a financial crisis.

Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur.

It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession, that over the centuries has helped us to live longer and healthier lives, to help us die peacefully among our loved ones in our own home without a long stay in God's waiting room.

I believe it should be possible for someone stricken with a serious and ultimately fatal illness to choose to die peacefully with medical help, rather than suffer.

Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.

A retired teacher paid $62,000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215,000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime.

The medical literature tells us that the most effective ways to reduce the risk of heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, Alzheimer's, and many more problems are through healthy diet and exercise. Our bodies have evolved to move, yet we now use the energy in oil instead of muscles to do our work.

Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises.

Stay out of the sun, because it is the worst thing in terms of aging. I'm very medical. I come from a medical family.

What's important at the grocery store is just as important in engines or medical systems. If the customer isn't satisfied, if the stuff is getting stale, if the shelf isn't right, or if the offerings aren't right, it's the same thing. You manage it like a small organization. You don't get hung up on zeros.

Information on how to heal autism and how to possibly delay vaccines or prevent autism shouldn't come from me. It should come from the medical establishment.

I have been recently diagnosed with Sjogren's Syndrome, an autoimmune disease which is an ongoing medical condition that affects my energy level and causes fatigue and joint pain.

Civil and political rights are critical, but not often the real problem for the destitute sick. My patients in Haiti can now vote but they can't get medical care or clean water.

I know we can't always know what medical surprises may happen during childbirth. But my hope is to go fully natural - no epidural, no interventions. Wish me luck.

But I contend that if we're providing total medical coverage for every man, woman, and child in Iraq, shouldn't we at least be doing the same thing for every man, woman, and child in the United States?

Money has transformed every watchdog, every independent authority. Medical doctors are increasingly gulled by the lobbying of pharmaceutical salesmen.

Liberal that I am, I support health-care reform on its merits alone. My liberal blood boils, for example, when I read that half of the personal bankruptcies in this country are brought on, in part, by medical expenses.

My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.

I first wanted to be a psychiatrist. I decided against that in medical school when I discovered that psychiatrists didn't, in reality, do what they did on TV.

Over the years my mother's steadfast faith in God has inspired me, particularly when I had to perform extremely difficult surgical procedures or when I found myself faced with my own medical scare.

I think first and foremost everybody should understand that Canadians are strongly committed to the system of universal health insurance, to the principle that your ability to pay does not determine your access to critical medical service.

The best way to reduce the cost of medical care is to reduce the illness.

If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering.

My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that it's the way one is raised.

Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in Boston or New York or Atlanta fifty years ago would be as strange to a medical student or intern today as the ceremonial dance of a !Kung San tribe would seem to a rock festival audience in Hackensack.

The dilemma of modern medicine, and the underlying central flaw in medical education and, most of all, in the training of interns, is the irresistible drive to do something, anything. It is expected by patients and too often agreed to by their doctors, in the face of ignorance.

It worries me about our unwillingness to really address reforms and modernization in Medicare. This thing was designed 37 years ago. It has not evolved to keep pace with current medical technology.

Mind you, I've always been a very off-message type of fat broad one who gladly admits she reached the size she is now solely through lack of discipline and love of pleasure, and who rather despises people (except those with proven medical conditions) who pretend that it is generally otherwise.

One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.

There have been some medical schools in which somewhere along the assembly line, a faculty member has informed the students, not so much by what he said but by what he did, that there is an intimate relation between curing and caring.

It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough to ensure that the poor have access to adequate medical care.

The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the patching up of those attacked and the burying of those who are slain, without a thought being given to the real strong hold.

I read Freud's Introductory Lectures in Psychoanalysis in basically one sitting. I decided to enroll in medical school. It was almost like a conversion experience.

Citizens must pressure the American Hospital Association, the American Public Health Association, the Centers for Disease Control and other relevant governmental agencies to make greening our hospitals and medical centers a top priority so that they themselves don't create even more illness.

We need to accept the seemingly obvious fact that a toxic environment can make people sick and that no amount of medical intervention can protect us. The health care community must become a powerful political lobby for environmental policy and legislation.

I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation.

Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.

I took anatomy classes. I went to medical libraries and talked to doctors and nutritionists. I did the whole thing before using myself as a human guinea pig.

The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants.

I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.

And as a nurse, I know very well the importance, for example, of electronic medical records.

I mean, everybody should have access to medical care. And, you know, it shouldn't be such a big deal.

Researches tested a new form of medical marijuana that treats pain but doesn't get the user high, prompting patients who need medical marijuana to declare, 'Thank you?'

As far as hypnosis is concerned, I had a very serious problem when I was in my twenties. I encountered a man who later became the president of the American Society of Medical Hypnosis. He couldn't hypnotize me.

I don't think there's any independent cartoonist whose stuff I don't like or respect in at least some way or another. We're all marginal laborers - we're practically medical oddities - so I don't see why we can't all be nice to each other.

President Obama and his radical feminist enforcers have had it in for Catholic medical providers from the get-go. It's about time all people of faith fought back against this unprecedented encroachment on religious liberty. First, they came for the Catholics. Who's next?

The public has lost faith in the ability of Social Security and Medicare to provide for old age. They've lost faith in the banking system and in conventional medical insurance.

Five thousand people every day lose their home because of a medical bankruptcy. Most of them had insurance.

Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.

We have the greatest hospitals, doctors, and medical technology in the world - we need to make them accessible to every American.

Remember, I'm a doctor's daughter. So obviously I'm interested in all medical things.

It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.

I am very abnormal... But it wasn't very long ago that I wasn't so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for a lifetime of paying medical bills as proof of my normalcy.

The Google algorithm was a significant development. I've had thank-you emails from people whose lives have been saved by information on a medical website or who have found the love of their life on a dating website.

Today, all patients accepted for treatment at St. Jude's are treated without regard for the family's ability to pay. Everything beyond what is covered by insurance is taken care of, and for those without insurance, all of the medical costs are absorbed by the hospital.

Many of us are alarmed at the skyrocketing cost of medical care, including patients, who are the consumers. However, medical malpractice is not the reason for these increasing costs.

In our own state, we came up with, I think, what was a very novel approach to closing the gap on the uninsured. To harmonize medical records - which was a major step in getting costs out of the system.

I basically believe the medical insurance industry should be nonprofit, not profit-making. There is no way a health reform plan will work when it is implemented by an industry that seeks to return money to shareholders instead of using that money to provide health care.

To date, embryonic stem cell research has not produced a single medical treatment, where ethical, adult stem cell research has produced some 67 medical miracles.

Here in Silicon Valley, I have taken part in hundreds of conversations trying to convince people to dive in and become entrepreneurs. All too often, innovators with good, safe, jobs are unwilling to put their family's access to health care at risk by walking away from company-backed medical insurance.

Synergy and serendipity often play a big part in medical and scientific advances.

Advances in science and medical research and public health policies have meant that life expectancy for Australians is one of the highest in the world.

Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention.

Because I am not formally trained in the medical sciences, I can bring in new ideas to AIDS research and the cross-fertilization of ideas from different fields could be a valuable contribution to finding the cure for AIDS.

If I'm pushed, I'd also have to admit I don't like people with allergies. They just annoy me. There seems to be something far too self-centred about it. 'No thanks, I'm allergic.' Why not just say 'No thanks'? I wasn't asking for your medical history, I was just passing around the nuts. Trying to be friendly, that's all.

Haiti is always talking about decentralization and nothing has been so obvious, perhaps a weakness, as the centralized nature of Haitian society as being revealed by the earthquake. I mean, they lost all these medical training programs because they didn't have them anywhere else.

The growth of technology is such that it is not possible today for a nuclear physicist to switch into medical physics without training. The field is now much more technical. More training is needed to do the job.

It's interesting when people make comments about celebrities' weight gain or lack of weight gain as if they're a medical professional that's treating that celebrity. Like, 'This doctor does not treat Jessica Simpson, but thinks her weight is unhealthy.' If you don't treat her, then how do you know?

No one wants to go back to a situation where, if you have a pre-existing medical condition, you, you can be deprived of coverage. No one wants to go back to a situation where, if you get seriously ill, you can get thrown off your insurance. Seniors don't want to go back to paying more for their prescription drugs.

There is an element of anger among women who've been raped. There's certainly a major element of humiliation. But it really does seem like a medical condition of shock and horror.

Yet it looks as if the thing we use to solve our problems with is the source of our problems. It's like going to the doctor and having him make you ill. In fact, in 20% of medical cases we do apparently have that going on. But in the case of thought, its far over 20%.

Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life.

My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system.

Medical decisions have been politicized. What doctor wants a state legislator in his consulting room?

I do not believe that Congress or the Administration should prohibit the medical community from pursuing a promising avenue of research that may improve the lives of millions of Americans.

When I went to the University, the medical school was the only place where one could hope to find the means to study life, its nature, its origins, and its ills.

I'd come out of the army after five years as a medic. I was a medical administrator and we ran hospitals, and I was a Captain in the army at the end, in 1945.

We also have a program in place for low income people. A family of four making $26,000 a year can receive medical coverage, irrespective of citizenship or what documents.

If someone lives in New York, he's a New Yorker - they are entitled to the best medical system in the world.

The World Health Organisation has a lot of its medical experts sitting in Geneva while hospitals in Africa have no drugs and desperate patients are forced to seek medication on the black market.

Listening to medical facts was not enough. People wanted one hundred percent guarantees.

During a trip to Iraq last fall, I visited our theater hospital at Balad Air Force Base and witnessed these skilled medical professionals in action and met the brave soldiers whose lives they saved.

If we don't change, millions of American families are just one medical emergency, or one layoff, away from financial disaster and bankruptcy.

When I took command in Vietnam, I gave great emphasis to food and medical care - and to the mail.

In my second year, after moving to the Medical School, I began the courses of Anatomy and Physiology. I had begun to see that I was interested in cells and their functions.

As a player, I was fortunate to work with coaching and medical staffs that underscored the importance of utilizing injury prevention exercises, which contributed to my healthy and long playing career.

For my convalescence, I had to exercise my voice only with vowels. It is a medical rule after a long loss of voice.

When I was born in 1970 with a rare genetic disorder called spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita (SED), medical science wasn't what it is today and my mum and dad were treated terribly by the medical profession.

Developments in medical technology have long been confined to procedural or pharmaceutical advances, while neglecting a most basic and essential component of medicine: patient information management.

The Navy's paid for you to go through school, and then they need doctors to go out and take care of people who are in various different parts of the world. I decided to pay back my time first as an undersea medical officer. I was stationed in Scotland.

Only medical hypnosis is capable of opening up amnesia.

Today we see a human population of over 6 billion people, many of whom have serious medical conditions, which either can't be treated or cannot be treated economically.

I can help a lot of other people who've gone through the same thing by building a center that will help men and women who don't have the funds to take care of themselves and get the medical treatment.

Long gone are the days when hospital stays and surgeries made up the bulk of seniors' annual medical expenses.

Without true medical liability reform, our doctors will continue to leave, and young doctors coming out of medical school $100,000 to $200,000 in debt will not be able to afford such onerous costs.

Informed consent is required for every invasive medical procedure, from getting your ears pierced to having an abortion.

The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.

I decided to start a medical training program for freelancers, only freelancers. They're the ones who are doing most of the combat reporting. They're taking most of the risks. They're absorbing most of the casualties. And they're the most underserved and under-resourced of everyone in the entire news business.

Corporate governance is a huge issue too. We don't have women on these corporate boards. More than half of the students in law school are women, more than half of the women, I think, in medical school now are women.

With tens of thousands of patients dying every year from preventable medical errors, it is imperative that we embrace available technologies and drastically improve the way medical records are handled and processed.

We cannot sacrifice innocent human life now for vague and exaggerated promises of medical treatments thirty of forty years from now. There are ways to pursue this technology and respect life at the same time.

The great medical facilities are a relief for the parents, too, who don't have to think about caring for their young ones on their own for a weekend. They have a great time.

Community health centers do a great deal with limited resources. They provide critical medical care services to many who would otherwise have no other place to go or would end up in an emergency room.

For many people, managing pain involves using prescription medicine in combination with complementary techniques like physical therapy, acupuncture, yoga and massage. I appreciate this because I truly believe medical care should address the person as a whole - their mind, body, and spirit.

When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks, I gained the impression that here was a subject tainted with Socialism or with feminine sentimentality for the poor.

Oh there are lots of doctors and medical professionals out there who buy my devices at whole sale price.

Immortality Device has been tested and researched by medical researchers all over the world from time to time. They email me and told me what they found. I post their results sometimes on my site.

That's the thing. in medicine, you're used to saying there's a problem within the person, and saying there's a problem within the culture, that's not a medical answer. Medicine has to look in one direction, so there's only one type of answer that they can find.

I founded a launch company called International Microspace when I graduated medical school in 1989. We were trying to build a microsatellite launcher.

I've been advised not to have any more children for medical reasons, so that's it - the shop has closed, even though I would have loved a daughter.

Ensuring Americans have access to adequate medical care should be a priority for all of us.

I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon.

Procedures outside the stadiums and in the parking areas still need to be optimized, for example so that emergency medical services can leave the grounds on their way to the hospital faster.

Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate.

Failure to properly control our borders costs citizens in many ways: schools become overcrowded, medical resources are stretched too thin, other government services are overtaxed, and taxes increase further.

Another cause of change, one less noticeable but fundamental, is the modern growth of population closely connected with scientific and medical discoveries. It is interesting that the United Nations has set up a special Commission to study this question.

Nobody could tell us or really had a very good idea, if there were a massive release of radiation, what kind of medical treatment people were going to need and this or that, or, indeed, whether there would be medical personnel around.

Harvard Medical School, the University of South Florida and the American Psychiatric Association have all conducted studies showing that the earlier one begins gambling, the more likely it is he or she will become an addicted, problem gambler.

As a former professional patient advocate, I believe prescription drugs are an essential part of high-quality medical treatment, and I supported enactment of the Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act.

The sacrifices made by veterans and their willingness to fight in defense of our nation merit our deep respect and praise - and to the best in benefits and medical care.

Medical physics is an applied area of physics.

Most medical physicists work in the physics of radiation oncology making sure that the desired dose is given to the cancer and the dose to normal tissues are minimized.

Medical physicists work in cooperation with doctors. A few medical physicists devote their time to research and teaching. A few get involved with administrative duties.

I am sure that I have been much more useful to society as a medical physicist.

When I entered medical physics in 1958 there were fewer than 100 in the U.S. and I could see many opportunities to apply my knowledge of nuclear physics.

I was the Chair of the first department of medical physics in a medical school in the U.S.

I have devoted much time and energy to helping medical physics in developing countries.

There are now over 5,000 medical physicists in the U.S more than 50 times the number in 1958.

It is my sincere hope that hospitals across Indiana, and America, continue to strive for excellence when it comes to providing medical care. This proposed rule will be harmful to communities who wish to upgrade their medical facilities.

The technology used to detect if vehicles are carrying radioactive material is so sensitive it can tell if a person recently received radiation as part of a medical procedure.

The current medical records system is this: Room after room after room in a hospital filled with paper files.

If one of us, any of us, any American is traveling in a town somewhere in America and a medical crisis hits them, for someone who is diabetic or perhaps has heart disease or some other problems, where do we get the records to determine what to do?

Nobody had ever told me junk food was bad for me. Four years of medical school, and four years of internship and residency, and I never thought anything was wrong with eating sweet rolls and doughnuts, and potatoes, and bread, and sweets.

Whether it's possible or not, being a doctor, you take an oath. To care for your patient, not to kill them. You take an oath to do things that are proper in the medical world. Not to administer something outside of a hospital setting that's not even your area.

I have four strikes against me. I'm black, I'm short, I'm intelligent, and I have a medical condition.

America's doctors, nurses and medical researchers are the best in the world, but our health care system is broken.

When Demetrie got sick, we knew it was our responsibility to take care of her and pay her medical bills. And we embraced that. But the tricky part is, like so many families in the South, we also expected her to use a separate bathroom, to use separate utensils.

There are the medical dangers of football in general caused by head trauma over repetitive hits.

Consider this: I can go to Antarctica and get cash from an ATM without a glitch, but should I fall ill during my travels, a hospital there could not access my medical records or know what medications I am on.

Jobs for every American is doomed to failure because of modern automation and production. We ought to recognize it and create an income-maintenance system so every single American has the dignity and the wherewithal for shelter, basic food, and medical care. I'm talking about welfare for all. Without it, you're going to have warfare for all.

Three of my children are medical doctors, they know at least a hundred times as much about your body as my grandfather knew, but they don't know much more about soul than he did.

But I spent just two calendar years at Cornell University, though it was covering more than three years of work, and then went to medical school and did become interested in psychiatry, and even helped form a kind of psychiatry club in medical school.

Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients.

I am committed to ensure that our intelligence community, law enforcement, medical professionals, and military have the information and funding needed to protect the American people from threats at home and abroad.

C-17s should be ready to go at various military bases around the world packed with water, food, medical supplies, sleeping bags and tents, all prepared to be air dropped in alongside soldiers and doctors to begin relief efforts.

It has been suggested at various times that I should start an operation in the United Kingdom but - bearing in mind my age and medical history - I think this would be not a very sensible way to go forward.

Although awareness of cancer's prevalence in the United States improves and medical advances in the field abound, pancreatic cancer has largely been absent from the list of major success stories.

There's a lot of interest from the medical community on how things develop in microgravity, and the hope, later, that is expected to apply to what the changes are in humans as well.

Modern medical advances have helped millions of people live longer, healthier lives. We owe these improvements to decades of investment in medical research.

After I read all the medical journals and watched all the documentaries, I still didn't understand the physical sensation of ticking and where it comes from and what it feels like.

Reform of the medical liability system should be considered as part of a comprehensive response to surging medical malpractice premiums that endanger Americans' access to quality medical care.

I unfortunately had a lot of medical procedures throughout my life, so I decided to paint all of my surgeries as a way to heal and as a way to grow.

Now a cholera epidemic was sweeping through Southeast Asia and south Asia in the early 1970s, so I started medical school and I joined a laboratory to work on this.

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.

Libertarians argue that no normal adult has the right to impose choices on other normal adults, except in abnormal circumstances, such as when one person finds another unconscious and administers medical assistance or calls an ambulance.

However, many skilled medical volunteers are turned away because community health centers cannot afford to cover their additional medical liability insurance.

They don't like thinking in medical school. They memorize - that's all they want you to do. You must not think.

I'm a medical doctor and a biomedical scientist.

I completed medical school at Loma Linda University School of Medicine in 1984.

I spent some time at White Memorial Medical Center as a senior medical student doing a rotation in surgery however, I felt I wasn't getting enough time assisting.

I would like to promote the concept of a partnership of insurance companies, physicians and hospitals in deploying a basic framework for an electronic medical records system that is affordable.

I would like the Medical Society to be one of the resources for information about the influences that have an impact on our patients and our practices.

In addition, I'll be attending women's health expos and medical conferences with the goal to promote dialogue between women and their health-care providers.

I wanted to go to medical school. But, I never got a college scholarship.

Just the actual physical ability to hold four instruments simultaneously and do some of the things that Vivien was able to do is mind blowing to any surgeon. He never went to medical school and he became one of the great teachers of medicine himself, people are just amazed.

The fact that he didn't get credit for a while is more the story of social injustice. But his own spirit wasn't driven by that, and wasn't dependent upon that. He just wished he had the cash to go to medical school.

I'd like to think Helen very much understood what it was to be disadvantaged in the medical field. And that that was something that she never let dictate her choices.

If I had the medical clearance to fight, I would want to fight the best. The best would be Mayweather.

Even people who feel perfectly comfortable investing in the stock market and owning their own homes often have qualms about individual medical accounts or Social Security private accounts.

It is false to suggest that medical breakthroughs come only through government research.

The space industry is developing and delivering benefits that tie into our immediate needs and priorities here on Earth-for example, medical and materials research, and satellite communications.

Why doesn't Apple stop for a year and make medical devices? When people talk about technology, that's where I start to get a little hot under the collar because I know that it's the key to solving some of the world's biggest problems. Having a faster, thinner telephone is not one of the world's biggest problems.

I set up a laboratory in the Department of Physiology in the Medical School in South Africa and begin to try to find a bacteriophage system which we might use to solve the genetic code.

The government can still conduct clandestine searches of innocent people's private information such as library, medical, and financial records. This is wrong and should have been addressed in a true compromise.

Today, it is research with human embryonic stem cells and attempts to prepare cloned stem cells for research and medical therapies that are being disavowed as being ethically unacceptable.

After wrestling with myself for six months, I began medical treatment. During that time I started a band with some friends of mine called Jack's Car, but that didn't last.

I welcome the President and working with him to try to get some of that medical malpractice reform so we can get the cost of health care to come down.

Fort Smith, being the place of my longest stay, was the scene of my largest medical practice.

Radio interoperability is essential for our police, fire, and emergency medical service departments to communicate with each other in times of emergency.

Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.

My diminished girth, in tailor phraseology, was hardly conceivable even by my own friends, or my respected medical adviser, until I put on my former clothing, over what I now wear, which is a thoroughly convincing proof of the remarkable change.

We have a lot to gain through furthering stem cell research, but medical breakthroughs should be fundamentally about saving, not destroying, human life. Therefore, I support stem cell research that does not destroy the embryo.

Yes, there is a story about Agent Orange, and we knew that it harmed our troops and we knew how long it was to get the medical community to accept that, the military to accept it, the VA to accept it.

When you talk about obesity, there's so many things that can cause that. It can be a medical thing, or down to the individual. There's a lot of other things involved than eating a Mars bar.

We still have people in the active duty, and if people are feeling ill, if they're experiencing various symptoms and they're still in the active duty, they're less likely to come forward because that could result in their medical discharge.

I am a military police officer and I have served on two deployments my first was to Iraq, in a medical unit, and my second deployment was to Kuwait, as a military police platoon leader.

In my own life, I decided to leave meat off my plate in medical school, but was a bit slow to realise that dairy products and eggs are not health foods either.

When I was a child, I was unable to go to any type of sleepaway summer camp because of health issues. Once I learned about the Lopez Foundation, I knew I wanted to get involved, send kids with kidney disease away to camp so they can still experience overnight camp with medical needs at hand.

Eating disorders can have serious medical and psychological consequences which, left unchecked, can kill. Parents should address this issue and ask their children to discuss how they feel about themselves.

Quite frankly, Barack Obama knows what it's like to pay a mortgage and student loans. He knows what it's like to watch a beloved family member in a medical crisis and worry that treatment is out of reach. Barack Obama knows our struggles. And, my friends, he shares our values.

Every article I wrote in those days, every speech I made, is full of pleading for the recognition of lead poisoning as a real and serious medical problem.

That's why I wanted to be part of this AIDS Project Los Angeles party. We help raise funds for those who are having a tough time with some very basic necessities, like shelter, food, and medical care.

Jews were asked when life begins. For them it's when they finally graduate medical school.

And of course, identifying all human genes and proteins will have great medical significance.

So I applied to medical school and received a scholarship at Washington University in St. Louis. Washington University turned out to be a lucky choice. The faculty was scholarly and dedicated and accessible to students.

Drug abuse is a medical disease that requires medical professionals.

Americans of all ages deserve quality end-of-life medical care.

I have no qualms about saying I am more confident in the medical treatment in America. The breast cancer survival rate is 20 per cent higher than in the UK.

Charge forward with hope and get the best medical advice you can. Talk to your friends, neighbors, family, and together you attack it. We can't always control what happens to us, but we can always control how we react to it.

I have many times thought I did the wrong thing, but the reason was not to be a medical doctor - it was just to have the information. But then, maybe I was wrong, I don't know.

Canadians have been very generous toward Haiti after the earthquake and, thanks to you, our most vulnerable people have received food, drinkable water, shelter, medical care and education. For that, we are extremely grateful.

You know what they call the fellow who finishes last in his medical school graduating class? They call him 'Doctor.'

There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak they are manners, morals, and medicine.

In the Radiation Laboratory we count it a privilege to do everything we can to assist our medical colleagues in the application of these new tools to the problems of human suffering.

After he was assassinated, his family and the men who had served him continued the lying and began the destruction, censoring and hiding of JFK's medical records.

Kennedy lied and lied about his health while he was alive, even using his father's influence to get into the Navy without ever taking a medical examination.

I don't practice, but I am still officially in paediatrics. I keep in touch with journals, and I have a very good data bank of medical information and there is a key thing for a writer knowing where to go. I know where to go to get the information that I need.

When families save, they can get through emergencies like a bad harvest or a medical emergency. But it's more than that. They can also plan for the future, gradually saving up for a small business or for their children's school tuition.

I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it.

The bill would ban human cloning, and any attempts at human cloning, for both reproductive purposes and medical research. Also forbidden is the importing of cloned embryos or products made from them.

On bad days, I think I'd like to be a plastic surgeon who goes to Third World countries and operates on children in villages with airlifts, and then I think, 'Yeah, right, I'm going to go back to undergraduate school and take all the biology I missed and then go to medical school.' No. No.

And it was back in the mid-1980s, and as I point out in a piece, that was when we are spending about eight percent of our gross domestic product on health care. And even then, we had the impression that so much of the excessive, aggressive medical treatment that took place at the end of life was not only unnecessary but it was cruel.

To make a coverage decision, doesn't one have to make a medical judgment?

I was proud to share the stories of my friends at Georgetown Law who have suffered dire medical consequences because our student insurance does not cover contraception for the purpose of preventing pregnancy.

I went to Duke University in the medical track. And then I decided I wanted to do something more creative, so I switched to biochemistry at Nebraska.

The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics, and chemistry, was to become decisive in determining the trend of my literary work.

Was this an old disease, and, if so, which one? If it was new, what did that say about the state of medical knowledge? And in any case, how could physicians make sense of it?

Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to see what the ancients had said.

The sort of thinking at the time was, 'Well, we're giving you access to medical care which you wouldn't otherwise be able to get, so your payment is that we get to use you in research.'

We ought to be providing protective sanctuaries for the Kurdish rebels. That means finding some places where they can come and to which we will then be able to provide food and water and medical help.

Because of my medical and ideological training, I am accustomed to saying that life is adaptation and symbiosis.

Alfred Nobel was much concerned, as are we all, with the tangible benefits we hope for and expect from physiological and medical research, and the Faculty of the Caroline Institute has ever been alert to recognize practical benefits.

In 1963 and later papers, I pointed out that the special market characteristics of medical care and medical insurance could be explained by reference to differences in information among the parties involved.

In a wristwatch, imagine the battery is in the strap and there's a medical sensor in there connected to the internet. If someone is monitoring that, they could phone up if the user has forgotten to take some medication. This could save hundreds of dollars in medical fees later. What's missing? It's a stable battery.

As a physician and as a pilot, I think it lets me be a pretty good translator having one foot in the medical world and one foot in the flying world. Sometimes when the medical guys come in and speak medical stuff to the pilots, the pilots really don't know what they're saying.

I broke down while at Oxford, was rejected by a record number of medical tribunals during the War, and finally got permission to leave Oxford and do civilian work till the War ended.

I found out that colonels can stay until they drop dead or get a walker and being a critical medical specialty as an Army trained emergency room doctor, I could stay until age 67.

We need to bridge the gap between the medical libraries and the hospital rooms take the information out there already, add to it, focus it, harness it - and bring it to the patient who was just diagnosed today.

There is no medical proof that television causes brain damage - at least from over five feet away. In fact, TV is probably the least physically harmful of all the narcotics known to man.

Kids coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan deserve to come back to 21st century medical care.

Sometime they don't let you know that they know that they don't know everything, but the core of the medical approach is that you try to identify pathologies, which are subsystems within the human body or the larger system that are having undesirable consequences.

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

A man's kiss is his signature.

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

I only have 'yes' men around me. Who needs 'no' men?

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported.

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

Honor is simply the morality of superior men.

Men must know their limitations.

Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.

Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.;Ella Wheeler Wilcox;men 45187;Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.;George Orwell;men 45188;Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.;Leonardo da Vinci;men 45189;Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them an even chance to live and grow.;Chief Joseph;men 45190;Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.;Gilbert K. Chesterton;men 45191;Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.;Bette Davis;men 45192;It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.;Jane Austen;men 45193;Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.;George Jean Nathan;men 45194;Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.;Marcus Tullius Cicero;men 45195;Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.;Charles Dickens;men 45196;Men do not quit playing because they grow old they grow old because they quit playing.;Oliver Wendell Holmes;men 45197;Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.;Francois de La Rochefoucauld;men 45198;Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.;F. Scott Fitzgerald;men 45199;The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.;Charles Dickens;men 45200;I am an agnostic I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.;Clarence Darrow;men 45201;Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.;Francis Bacon;men 45202;By indignities men come to dignities.;Francis Bacon;men 45203;Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.;Charles Spurgeon;men 45204;All men were made by the Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers.;Chief Joseph;men 45205;Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.;Democritus;men 45206;Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.;Kin Hubbard;men 45207;When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions their reasons are always different.;George Santayana;men 45208;Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.;Charles Baudelaire;men 45209;There is no such thing as justice in the abstract it is merely a compact between men.;Epicurus;men 45210;In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.;Charles Caleb Colton;men 45211;The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.;Moliere;men 45212;Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.;Desiderius Erasmus;men 45213;Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.;Charles Caleb Colton;men 45214;Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.;Dante Alighieri;men 45215;Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.;E. B. White;men 45216;Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.;David Herbert Lawrence;men 45217;Men won't read any email from a woman that's over 200 words long.;Doug Coupland;men 45218;All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.;Walter Scott;men 45219;There would be no great men if there were no little ones.;George Herbert;men 45220;It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.;Diogenes;men 45221;When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.;Ezra Pound;men 45222;Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.;Cher;men 45223;Men and women have strengths that complement each other.;Edwin Louis Cole;men 45224;It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.;Emil Zatopek;men 45225;Most men, when they think they are thinking, are merely rearranging their prejudices.;Knute Rockne;men 45226;One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.;Georg C. Lichtenberg;men 45227;He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.;Charles Kingsley;men 45228;Circumstances rule men men do not rule circumstances.;Herodotus;men 45229;Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.;Lord Chesterfield;men 45230;Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.;Daniel Webster;men 45231;Men should strive to think much and know little.;Democritus;men 45232;Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.;Charles de Gaulle;men 45233;Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.;Laurence Sterne;men 45234;Men often act knowingly against their interest.;David Hume;men 45235;The less men think, the more they talk.;Charles de Montesquieu;men 45236;Men tend to feel threatened women tend to feel guilty.;Edwin Louis Cole;men 45237;Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.;Quintilian;men 45238;Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.;Charles de Gaulle;men 45239;Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.;Lawrence Durrell;men 45240;For tis not in mere death that men die most.;Elizabeth Barrett Browning;men 45241;Men do not fail they give up trying.;Elihu Root;men 45242;Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.;Richard Whately;men 45243;I have always supported measures and principles and not men.;Davy Crockett;men 45244;Time takes away the grief of men.;Desiderius Erasmus;men 45245;If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.;Rita Mae Brown;men 45246;By nature, men love newfangledness.;Geoffrey Chaucer;men 45247;Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.;Heinrich Heine;men 45248;Italian men do appreciate beautiful women. They're not afraid of the beauty, which is nice.;Eva Herzigova;men 45249;Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.;Edward Young;men 45250;There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.;E. W. Howe;men 45251;Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.;E. W. Howe;men 45252;Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.;Christopher Dawson;men 45253;A lot of times, women don't get the male perspective in regards to a relationship, what men go through when they're not really dealing well.;Morris Chestnut;men 45254;Men are different. When they are in love they may also have other girlfriends.;Zhang Ziyi;men 45255;Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.;Walter Lippmann;men 45256;All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.;Herodotus;men 45257;All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.;Hilaire Belloc;men 45258;We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.;Charles de Montesquieu;men 45259;I have 20,000 girlfriends, all around the world.;Justin Timberlake;men 45260;The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by men incapable of it.;Murray Kempton;men 45261;Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies.;Howard Thurman;men 45262;Men are actually the weaker sex.;George Weinberg;men 45263;Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.;Max Lerner;men 45264;Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.;Charles de Secondat;men 45265;No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady.;Keith Miller;men 45266;Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.;Anthony Burgess;men 45267;Men are not against you they are merely for themselves.;Gene Fowler;men 45268;Culture makes all men gentle.;Menander;men 45269;When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.;Benjamin Haydon;men 45270;Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.;Matthew Arnold;men 45271;You can't keep changing men, so you settle for changing your lipstick.;Heather Locklear;men 45272;Neutral men are the devil's allies.;Edwin Hubbel Chapin;men 45273;I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we want and we are not fragile enough.;Shirley Bassey;men 45274;Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.;Edmund Waller;men 45275;Whenever ideas fail, men invent words.;Martin H. Fischer;men 45276;No nice men are good at getting taxis.;Katharine Whitehorn;men 45277;Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.;George William Norris;men 45278;For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.;Clifton Paul Fadiman;men 45279;That common cold of the male psyche, fear of commitment.;Richard Schickel;men 45280;We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.;Abraham Lincoln;men 45281;Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.;Martin Luther King, Jr.;men 45282;Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.;Abraham Lincoln;men 45283;A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities.;Thomas Jefferson;men 45284;All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.;T. E. Lawrence;men 45285;The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.;Edmund Burke;men 45286;All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.;William Shakespeare;men 45287;Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.;Martin Luther King, Jr.;men 45288;A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.;Martin Luther King, Jr.;men 45289;Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.;Helen Keller;men 45290;People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.;George Orwell;men 45291;Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.;Buddha;men 45292;Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.;John F. Kennedy;men 45293;Wise men speak because they have something to say Fools because they have to say something.;Plato;men 45294;It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.;Helen Keller;men 45295;The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.;Martin Luther King, Jr.;men 45296;Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.;Oscar Wilde;men 45297;We have guided missiles and misguided men.;Martin Luther King, Jr.;men 45298;Force always attracts men of low morality.;Albert Einstein;men 45299;I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.;Buddha;men 45300;To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.;Abraham Lincoln;men 45301;If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.;Confucius;men 45302;Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.;Abraham Lincoln;men 45303;There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.;Will Rogers;men 45304;All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.;Socrates;men 45305;There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.;Ernest Hemingway;men 45306;We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.;Plato;men 45307;Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.;Ronald Reagan;men 45308;Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.;Abraham Lincoln;men 45309;We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.;Thomas Jefferson;men 45310;There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.;William Shakespeare;men 45311;Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.;Ronald Reagan;men 45312;Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for it is better to be alone than in bad company.;George Washington;men 45313;The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.;Abraham Lincoln;men 45314;Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.;Abraham Lincoln;men 45315;These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.;Abraham Lincoln;men 45316;I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.;Oscar Wilde;men 45317;Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.;Winston Churchill;men 45318;Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.;Henry David Thoreau;men 45319;It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.;Mahatma Gandhi;men 45320;Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.;Aristotle;men 45321;The evil that men do lives after them the good is oft interred with their bones.;William Shakespeare;men 45322;The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.;George Washington;men 45323;Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.;William James;men 45324;Men are what their mothers made them.;Ralph Waldo Emerson;men 45325;Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.;Henry David Thoreau;men 45326;Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.;Robert A. Heinlein;men 45327;Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.;Confucius;men 45328;Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.;Thomas Jefferson;men 45329;It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.;John Steinbeck;men 45330;The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.;George Edward Moore;men 45331;Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.;Socrates;men 45332;The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.;Dalai Lama;men 45333;All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.;Brian Tracy;men 45334;As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.;Maya Angelou;men 45335;As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.;Thomas Jefferson;men 45336;Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.;Napoleon Hill;men 45337;Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.;Anne Morrow Lindbergh;men 45338;Women may fall when there's no strength in men.;William Shakespeare;men 45339;What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.;Saint Augustine;men 45340;It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.;Samuel Adams;men 45341;An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.;Thomas Jefferson;men 45342;I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.;Thomas Jefferson;men 45343;Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.;Thomas Jefferson;men 45344;A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.;Plato;men 45345;Men marry because they are tired women, because they are curious both are disappointed.;Oscar Wilde;men 45346;Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.;Ralph Waldo Emerson;men 45347;As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.;Andrew Carnegie;men 45348;Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.;George S. Patton;men 45349;I have no ambition to govern men it is a painful and thankless office.;Thomas Jefferson;men 45350;The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.;George Washington;men 45351;Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.;Helen Keller;men 45352;It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.;Thomas Jefferson;men 45353;Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.;Marilyn Monroe;men 45354;Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land the great ones eat up the little ones.;William Shakespeare;men 45355;Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.;Aristotle;men 45356;Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.;Benjamin Franklin;men 45357;All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.;Maya Angelou;men 45358;It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.;George S. Patton;men 45359;There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.;Thomas Jefferson;men 45360;Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.;William Shakespeare;men 45361;Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.;William Shakespeare;men 45362;Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.;Katharine Hepburn;men 45363;Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.;Confucius;men 45364;The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.;John F. Kennedy;men 45365;But men are men the best sometimes forget.;William Shakespeare;men 45366;Trust men and they will be true to you treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.;Ralph Waldo Emerson;men 45367;If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.;William Shakespeare;men 45368;Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.;William Shakespeare;men 45369;Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.;Oscar Wilde;men 45370;If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.;William Shakespeare;men 45371;What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.;C. S. Lewis;men 45372;Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.;Eleanor Roosevelt;men 45373;Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.;Coco Chanel;men 45374;Content makes poor men rich discontent makes rich men poor.;Benjamin Franklin;men 45375;Men's vows are women's traitors!;William Shakespeare;men 45376;Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.;Johann Wolfgang von Goethe;men 45377;There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.;William Shakespeare;men 45378;Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.;C. S. Lewis;men 45379;The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.;Ayn Rand;men 45380;Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.;Mahatma Gandhi;men 45381;Men shut their doors against a setting sun.;William Shakespeare;men 45382;Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.;Mahatma Gandhi;men 45383;Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.;Saint Augustine;men 45384;Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!;William Shakespeare;men 45385;Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.;Muhammad Ali;men 45386;Clever and attractive women do not want to vote they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.;George Bernard Shaw;men 45387;Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.;Ralph Waldo Emerson;men 45388;As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!;Coco Chanel;men 45389;I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing meI will be concerned at my own want of ability.;Confucius;men 45390;There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.;John F. Kennedy;men 45391;All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner!

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night.

The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.

When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.

Observe all men, thyself most.

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Bad men are full of repentance.

Nine men in ten are would be suicides.

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

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

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

It was pride that changed angels into devils it is humility that makes men as angels.

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.

Bachelors know more about women than married men if they didn't they'd be married too.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?;Friedrich Nietzsche;men 45448;I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.;Henry David Thoreau;men 45449;Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.;Johann Wolfgang von Goethe;men 45450;The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.;Marilyn Monroe;men 45451;The fact is that I find more most men are more open, more generous, and much more stimulating than the majority of females I know.;Marilyn Monroe;men 45452;Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.;Marilyn Monroe;men 45453;If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!;Marilyn Monroe;men 45454;When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.;Marilyn Monroe;men 45455;I have noticed... that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.;Marilyn Monroe;men 45456;Girls shouldn't worry about being the equal of men in the business world.;Marilyn Monroe;men 45457;Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.;Marilyn Monroe;men 45458;I've found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.;Marilyn Monroe;men 45459;I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.;Marilyn Monroe;men 45460;Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

Sometimes I've been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.

The working men, I'll go by and they'll whistle. At first they whistle because they think, 'Oh, it's a girl. She's got blond hair and she's not out of shape,' and then they say, 'Gosh, it's Marilyn Monroe!'

Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life their Christianity, for instance.

If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.

All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.

The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin.

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.

Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.

A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.

While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.

When women go wrong, men go right after them.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.

Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being.

Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.

Power does not corrupt men fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.

Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

The law will never make a man free it is men who have got to make the law free.

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.

Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby, the incarnation of perfect love.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.

A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness, as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general.

The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.

If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.

Reputation is what men and women think of us character is what God and angels know of us.

Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.

When Jesus comes back, these crazy, greedy, capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.

Only free men can negotiate prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.

The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.

Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men.

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

Adversity causes some men to break others to break records.

I think the part of media that romanticizes criminal behavior, things that a person will say against women, profanity, being gangster, having multiple children with multiple men and women and not wanting to is prevalent. When you look at the majority of shows on television they placate that kind of behavior.

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.

Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

There are three classes of men lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

Beware of men who cry. It's true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but the only feelings they tend to be sensitive to and in touch with are their own.

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.

The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

America's fighting men and women sacrifice much to ensure that our great nation stays free. We owe a debt of gratitude to the soldiers that have paid the ultimate price for this cause, as well as for those who are blessed enough to return from the battlefield unscathed.

Dear Lord we beg but one boon more: Peace in the hearts of all men living, peace in the whole world this Thanksgiving.

I try to speak my points of view about black America, and how I feel about black men and the role that black men should play in their lives with their children and in their lives with their women.

When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.

Personally, I like two types of men - domestic and foreign.

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.

As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities strong men make them.

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.

Girls we love for what they are young men for what they promise to be.

I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men.

Great hopes make great men.

History does nothing it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

Today is Valentine's Day - or, as men like to call it, Extortion Day!

The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.

Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.

I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.

The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.

Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.

A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future men of discernment deal only with the present moment.

Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

All men are equal before fish.

All religions have been made by men.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?

I shall never be a heretic I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.

The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence they go stark, raving mad.

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.

Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.

All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.

If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge.

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

All brave men love for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

These are the times that try men's souls.

I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband.

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

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.

No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.

Men are only as loyal as their options.

I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.

Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.

Guys are simple... women are not simple and they always assume that men must be just as complicated as they are, only way more mysterious. The whole point is guys are not thinking much. They are just what they appear to be. Tragically.

Men exist for the sake of one another.

There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

I don't think feminism, as I understand the definition, implies the rejection of maternal values, nurturing children, caring about the men in your life. That is just nonsense to me.

Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences.

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.

Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

It is past time for women to take their rightful place, side by side with men, in the rooms where the fates of peoples, where their children's and grandchildren's fates, are decided.

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.

What makes a woman beautiful is her loyalty to and her friendships with other women, and her honesty with men.

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later for another thing, they die earlier.

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.

Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.

Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.

God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

Men don't care what's on TV. They only care what else is on TV.

You know when you're young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they're trying to be old men and they have no idea what that's like? It's just that stupid the other way around.

Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.

I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He he glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal.

Men and women of every faith and good people with none at all sincerely strive to do right and lead a purpose-driven life.

When my mom ran for the Senate, my dad was there for her every step of the way. I can still hear her saying in her beautiful voice, 'Why should women have any less say than men, about the great decisions facing our nation?'

To die for an idea it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.

Wealthy men can't live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.

I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.

I have never met anyone who did not support our troops. Sometimes, however, we hear accusations that someone or some group does not support the men and women serving in our Armed Forces. But this is pure demagoguery, and it is intellectually dishonest.

Men cheat for the same reason that dogs lick their balls... because they can.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well.

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak and at last some crisis shows what we have become.

For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.

When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.

I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street.

Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.

The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.

Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.

Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.

Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

I'm a simple man. All I want is enough sleep for two normal men, enough whiskey for three, and enough women for four.

It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

Men are more prone to cheating, definitely.

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.

All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women.

Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

As we look forward to freedom, the shining city on the hill and the best days of America lying ahead, it is the men and women in uniform who protect, defend and make us proud to whom we should look and give thanks every night.

If we know that our own men are in a condition to attack, but are unaware that the enemy is not open to attack, we have gone only halfway towards victory.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit our lives are all that really belong to us. So it is how we use our lives that determines the kind of men we are.

I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.

There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.

Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get.

Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.

If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

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.

I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.

Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.

Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.

We are anthill men upon an anthill world.

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.

More men die of jealousy than of cancer.

How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

A government of laws, and not of men.

From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.

I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.

Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.

I swear by that old expression, 'One monkey don't stop no show!' The reality is, we still have some good men out there, and we should hail those men as the kings they are.

I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.

The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.

The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both this is an observation of the Middle Way.

If we became students of Malcolm X, we would not have young black men out there killing each other like they're killing each other now. Young black men would not be impregnating young black women at the rate going on now. We'd not have the drugs we have now, or the alcoholism.

Daddy was real gentle with kids. That's why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant.

When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often considered desperate or psycho.

Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday tomorrow is your victory over lesser men.

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.

Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless.

Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.

Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.

Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves they therefore remain bound.

But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money.

The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.

The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.

Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.

Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.

Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.

The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.

Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.

I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.

We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.

I think people are born bisexual and the make subconscious choices based on the pressures of society. I have no question in my mind about being bisexual. But I'm also a hypocrite: I would never date a girl who is bisexual, because that means they also sleep with men, and men are so dirty that I'd never sleep with a girl who had slept with a man.

Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.

Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?

Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

I do not believe in God his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.

Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.

Clever men are good, but they are not the best.

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.

The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.

Dreaming men are haunted men.

Half the pictures directed by men of reputation fail.

I saw six men kicking and punching the mother-in-law. My neighbour said 'Are you going to help?' I said 'No, six should be enough.'

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Men are like the stars some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

Bloody Christmas, here again, let us raise a loving cup, peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make them do the washing up.

I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.

Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.

What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences.

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

God is in all men, but all men are not in God that is why we suffer.

Most of us women like men, you know it's just that we find them a constant disappointment.

Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.

A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.

If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?

Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

The new pope knows that his task is to make the light of Christ shine before men and women of world - not his own light, but that of Christ.

I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.

These people are very unskilled in arms... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

I mean, honestly, we have to be clear that the life for many Afghan women is not that much different than it was a hundred years ago, 200 years ago. The country has lived with so much violence and conflict that many people, men and women, just want it to be over.

Memorial Day this year is especially important as we are reminded almost daily of the great sacrifices that the men and women of the Armed Services make to defend our way of life.

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

The breakdown of the black community, in order to maintain slavery, began with the breakdown of the black family. Men and women were not legally allowed to get married because you couldn't have that kind of love. It might get in the way of the economics of slavery. Your children could be taken from you and literally sold down the river.

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.

Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.

All men are not created equal but should be treated as though they were under the law.

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice their choice!

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

It's absolutely stupid that we live without an ozone layer. We have men, we've got rockets, we've got saran wrap - fix it!

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

The latest research has revealed that women have a higher IQ than men.

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.

As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.

My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.

It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.

All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.

Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.

If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.

All men and women have an equal need for love. When these needs are not fulfilled it is easy to have our feelings hurt, for which we blame our partner.

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.

I like being a woman, even in a man's world. After all, men can't wear dresses, but we can wear the pants.

When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.

With reasonable men, I will reason with humane men I will plead but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.

Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.

The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals nay it is treachery to comrades.

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.

Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Because wherever I am today, I still owe it to God and I owe it to two men - the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X and of course, two very special women, my mother and my wife.

A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.

What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.

When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.

The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.

Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love.

History has taught us over and over again that freedom is not free. When push comes to shove, the ultimate protectors of freedom and liberty are the brave men and women in our armed forces. Throughout our history, they've answered the call in bravery and sacrifice.

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.

It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.

When I was a boy, the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them?

Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.

Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.

All soldiers who serve their country and put their lives at risk need to know that if something happens to them, their families will be well taken care of. That's the bond we have with our military men and women and their families.

We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.

Live as brave men and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

I get along with guys most of my friends are guys. It's easier to trust men sometimes. I only have a few close girlfriends that I trust.

I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.

A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have so that they consistently do better work than they thought they could.

Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault.

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage.

Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.

A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful.

Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

Most men are very attached to the idea of being male, and usually experience a lot of fear and insecurity around the idea of being a man. Most women are very identified with their gender, and also experience a tremendous amount of fear and insecurity.

Men do not have to cook their food they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

I know there is a Supreme Being who rules the affairs of men and whose goodness and mercy have always followed the American people, and I know He will not turn from us now if we humbly and reverently seek His powerful aid.

Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

Give to everyone who begs from you and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them.

For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions of power, and we need to nurture the feminine energy in men.

Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

Make no little plans they have no magic to stir men's blood.

What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.

All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.

Some people think having large breasts makes a woman stupid. Actually, it's quite the opposite: a woman having large breasts makes men stupid.

Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.

If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.

It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor as such differences become less, it grows feeble and when they disappear, it will vanish too.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.

It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics.

Men blaspheme what they do not know.

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

If men are honest, everything they do and everywhere they go is for a chance to see women.

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.

It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.

I think that the day you've figured out the differences between women and men is the day that you're no longer attracted to women. It's the difference that is so fantastic and frustrating and angering, and really sexy.

Produce great men, the rest follows.

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

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another but women are by nature enemies.

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.

All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.

Forgive, son men are men they needs must err.

No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.

We all fight over what the label 'feminism' means but for me it's about empowerment. It's not about being more powerful than men - it's about having equal rights with protection, support, justice. It's about very basic things. It's not a badge like a fashion item.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.

Men often take their imagination for their heart and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

Many men are contemptuous of riches few can give them away.

When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking.

There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.

The production of children, the nurture of those born, and the daily life of men, of these matters woman is visibly the cause.

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

A good part - and definitely the most fun part - of being a feminist is about frightening men.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.

Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.

All men are liable to error and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.

But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends.

Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.

When I was younger, I was terrified to express anger because it would often kick-start a horrible reaction in the men in my life. So I bit my tongue. I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.

Men know everything - all of them - all the time - no matter how stupid or inexperienced or arrogant or ignorant they are.

Women's fashion is a subtle form of bondage. It's men's way of binding them. We put them in these tight, high-heeled shoes, we make them wear these tight clothes and we say they look sexy. But they're actually tied up.

All men of action are dreamers.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men decency in giving them no offense.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.

I do not wish women to have power over men but over themselves.

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.

No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.

Few things are impracticable in themselves and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.

There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.

Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.

No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.

We are all strong enough to bear other men's misfortunes.

Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.

As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as a general rule dupe each other.

What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.

The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.

We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play.

Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him.

When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.

Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

As Americans, we don't see the role of government as guaranteeing outcomes, but allowing free men and women to flourish based on their own vision, their hard work and their personal responsibility.

Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us.

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.

Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

Labor disgraces no man unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.

We cannot learn men from books.

The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.

The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.

I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own.

A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Men should be like Kleenex, soft, strong and disposable.

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!

The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men.

I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

Men, their rights, and nothing more women, their rights, and nothing less.

Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor.

I once heard two ladies going on and on about the pains of childbirth and how men don't seem to know what real pain is. I asked if either of them ever got themselves caught in a zipper.

Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.

To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.

As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.

We must make it clear that a platform of 'I hate gay men and women' is not a way to become president of the United States.

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.

Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.

Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die.

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.

But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'

It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.

Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?

When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view.

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.

As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.

English culture is basically homosexual in the sense that the men only really care about other men.

Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.

Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.

Men should pledge themselves to nothing for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.

For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men.

CNN found that Hillary Clinton is the most admired woman in America. Women admire her because she's strong and successful. Men admire her because she allows her husband to cheat and get away with it.

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.

When men hear women want a commitment, they think it means commitment to a romantic relationship, but that's not it. It's a commitment to not floating around anymore. I want a guy who is entrenched in his own life. Entrenched is awesome.

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.

Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.

I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don't know one who wouldn't fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink.

No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.

Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.

I believe there is complete equality between men and women. And I believe those passages in the New Testament, not by Jesus, but by Paul, that say women should not adorn themselves, they should always wear hats or color their hair in church - things like that - I think they are signs of the times and should not apply to modern-day life.

A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.

As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.

I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products.

They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.

All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.

Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Reasonable men adapt to the world around them unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men.

One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.

Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.

Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.

The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

Study men, not historians.

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.

He had read much, if one considers his long life but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it.

Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

Every woman needs one man in her life who is strong and responsible. Given this security, she can proceed to do what she really wants to do-fall in love with men who are weak and irresponsible.

We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Inconsistencies in men are generally testimony to their immaturity.

I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.

If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology.

Strong women only marry weak men.

Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions and take that of laborers Unions.

Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.

The most positive men are the most credulous.

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.

The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

Men are what their mothers made them.

My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.

That strong mother doesn't tell her cub, Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you. She says, Toughen up, this is reality we are living in.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.

Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.

My mother taught me to treat a lady respectfully.

I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.

Being a mother is hard and it wasn't a subject I ever studied.

It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion it is a joy of every moment.

I'm a Mommy's Girl - the strongest influence in my young life was my mom.

When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.

Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working.

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.

My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque.

Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand.

The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection.

Throughout my life, my mom has been the person that I've always looked up to.

When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.

Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history.

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.

What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.

Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.

I was a brownie for a day. My mom made me stop. She didn't want me to conform.

Mothers are the necessity of invention.

Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.

I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.

My mom always said that there would be haters. Not everyone can love ya.

I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.

The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born.

Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like manner our loving God shows His fondness for His beloved souls who have given themselves entirely to Him and have placed all their hope in His goodness.

It's the moms of this nation - single, married, widowed - who really hold this country together. We're the mothers, we're the wives, we're the grandmothers, we're the big sisters, we're the little sisters, we're the daughters. You know it's true, don't you? You're the ones who always have to do a little more.

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.

I sing seriously to my mom on the phone. To put her to sleep, I have to sing 'Maria' from West Side Story. When I hear her snoring, I hang up.

My mother was a personal friend of God's. They had ongoing conversations.

I am no mother, and I won't be one.

Of all the roles I've played, none has been as fulfilling as being a mother.

Mothers don't let your daughters grow up to be models unless you're present.

I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally.

A woman must combine the role of mother, wife and politician.

I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me.

My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage.

I basically became a cheerleader because I had a very strict mom. That was my way of being a bad girl.

There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and its mother's age.

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.

Mommy smoked but she didn't want us to. She saw smoke coming out of the barn one time, so we got whipped.

I loved raising my kids. I loved the process, the dirt of it, the tears of it, the frustration of it, Christmas, Easter, birthdays, growth charts, pediatrician appointments. I loved all of it.

I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids!

What is free time? I'm a single mother. My free moments are filled with loving my little girl.

I am truly my mother's son.

My sisters and mom raised me to respect women and open doors for them.

My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I'm 31-years-old, and I don't want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It's humiliating.

I wanted to escape so badly. But of course I knew I couldn't just give up and leave school. It was only when I heard my mom's voice that I came out of my hiding place.

Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.

Everyone checks out my mom. My mom's hot.

I want to be a cool mom.

Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? The mother.

I want to be more successful as a mother than I am in show business.

My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.

I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.

Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.

I think my mother is my biggest influence. There are so many things I hate about her but at the same time I'm thankful for her. All I know is that when I'm a parent I want to be just like my mom. I can talk to my mom more than any of my friends could talk to their parents.

I'm so happy and thankful I made it a point be a stay-at-home mom.

I'd lose my mind if I heard my kid call the nanny Mommy.

My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin' her dream vicariously through me. She once said that I was getting' to do all the things that she would have wanted to have done.

My parents, especially my mother, were no influence on me whatsoever.

Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched.

Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?

The man in our society is the breadwinner the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.

I stand fearlessly for small dogs, the American Flag, motherhood and the Bible. That's why people love me.

My mother thinks I could have even run a larger company.

My mom taught us the Serenity Prayer at a young age.

What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center.

The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.

I'm sure that my mom would have been happy with any path I chose.

I auditioned on my own. I tried to make a mark for myself without anybody's help, not even Mom's.

Giving birth was easier than having a tattoo.

If my mom reads that I'm grammatically incorrect I'll have hell to pay.

If you ever become a mother, can I have one of the puppies?

I'd go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.

We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges.

Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom.

Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist - because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died - she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose.

My mom and dad gave their kids the greatest gift of all - the gift of unconditional love. They cared deeply about who we would be, and much less about what we would do.

A guy is a lump like a doughnut. So, first you gotta get rid of all the stuff his mom did to him. And then you gotta get rid of all that macho crap that they pick up from beer commercials. And then there's my personal favorite, the male ego.

When my mom ran for the Senate, my dad was there for her every step of the way. I can still hear her saying in her beautiful voice, 'Why should women have any less say than men, about the great decisions facing our nation?'

Being a Hot Mom means being respected as a mom and a woman. And, the key to being a Hot Mom is having a sense of humor about yourself and all the crazy situations that arise.

I believe this with all my heart: The greatest coach of all time in my eyes is my mom. She's instilled in me a toughness and a perseverance and just a never-quit mentality, and I thank her every day for providing me, for what she sacrificed her life for.

My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.

My mom and I have always been really close. She's always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn't have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always.

For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values.

It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people.

As a mom, I know it is my responsibility, and no one else's, to raise my kids. But we have to ask ourselves, what does it mean when so many parents are finding their best efforts undermined by an avalanche of advertisements aimed at our kids.

One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad.

I love those hockey moms. You know what they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull is? Lipstick.

For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you'd would wake up times and hope that the next day you'd be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.

Don't let people disrespect you. My mom says don't open the door to the devil. Surround yourself with positive people.

Having a child makes you realize the importance of life - narcissism goes out the window. Heaven on earth is looking at my little boy. The minute he was born, I knew if I never did anything other than being a mom, I'd be fine.

My mom and I had the same vision, and we want the same things. We would always make a goal list every year.

I don't want to be perfect, but I do want to be a role model. My mom always tells me that imperfections equal beauty. All of us are imperfect.

When you are getting ready to become a mom, being in love with someone just isn't enough. You need to think about whether he would be a good parent and raise your children with similar beliefs.

My sisters and my mom, those people help me get through every single day.

"I told my mom, 'I'm not buying another magazine until I can get past this thought of looking like the girl on the cover'. She said, ""Miley, you are the girl on the cover,' and I was, like, 'I know, but I don't feel like that girl every day.' You can't always feel perfect."

When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi, Mom!

I love my mom. My mom loves me. We don't have an easy relationship. I don't think we ever will, but I'd rather have a complicated, misunderstood relationship than have no relationship at all.

My mom never taught me to be waiting for some prince on a white horse to swipe me off my feet.

I always wanted what Mom and Dad had.

My dad is still Christian Scientist. My mom's not, and I'm not. But I believe in God, and that there's a higher power and an intelligence that's bigger than us and that we can rely on. It's not just us, thinking we are the ones in control of everything. That idea gives me support.

My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.

People think I have courage. The courage in my family are my wife Pam, my three daughters, here, Nicole, Jamie, LeeAnn, my mom, who's right here too.

When I was 5, some financial things happened, and I moved seven times in a year. We moved from apartment to apartment, sometimes living with friends. My mom would always say, 'Don't get comfortable, because we may not be here long.'

I can only hope to be 10 percent of the mom mine was to me. She encouraged me to be confident and enjoy life. That's what I want for my son.

You know, I don't think any mother aims to be a single mom. I didn't wish for that, but it happened.

My mom decorated with lots of antiques. I never liked it when I was a little girl - I wanted to live in a modern house. But now I love it.

Looking back, I think I was always musical. My dad was very musical, and I think my mom was musical.

It wasn't so long ago that I was a working mom myself. And I know that sometimes, much as we all hate to admit it, it's just easier to park the kids in front of the TV for a few hours, so we can pay the bills or do the laundry or just have some peace and quiet for a change.

The person who has inspired me my whole life is my Mom, because she taught me commitment. She sacrificed.

My mom is always telling me it takes a long time to get to the top, but a short time to get to the bottom.

My mom and I are very close.

My mom is the backbone not just of my family but of many families.

I could get away with not taking care of myself as a bachelorette but as a mom I can't.

Mom was 50 when my Dad died. She got on a bus every weekday for years, and rode 40 miles each morning to Madison. She earned a new degree and learned new skills to start her small business. It wasn't just a new livelihood. It was a new life.

And to this day, my Mom is my role model.

A Romney-Ryan administration will protect and strengthen Medicare, for my Mom's generation, for my generation, and for my kids and yours.

What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of 'CSI' and 'Grey's Anatomy' episodes with pints of ice cream.

I started cooking when I was about 10. I have memories like when I was 6 or 7 with my mom, and when I was 12 I started getting real serious about cooking.

Studies show that children best flourish when one mom and one dad are there to raise them.

I know I'm talented, but I wasn't put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family. I love what I do, but it's not where it begins and ends.

My mom was tough.

When I was really young, my mom enrolled me in dance classes.

I think my love of journalizing my life comes from my mom.

My mom wasn't a movie star.

I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.

My inspiration was my mom. She's a great cook, and she still cooks, and we still banter back and forth about cooking. Growing up in a mostly Portuguese community, food was important and the family table was extremely important. At a very young age I understood that.

My parents were working class folks. My dad was a bartender for most of his life, my mom was a maid and a cashier and a stock clerk at WalMart. We were not people of financial means in terms of significant financial means. I always told them, 'I didn't always have what I wanted. I always had what I needed.' My parents always provided that.

My dad was a bartender. My mom was a cashier, a maid and a stock clerk at K-Mart. They never made it big. They were never rich. And yet they were successful. Because just a few decades removed from hopelessness, they made possible for us all the things that had been impossible for them.

My mom and I have always been very close. She is my best friend. She had to make a lot of sacrifices early on in my life to make sure I got to do what I wanted to do.

My mom brought me up to believe that my talent is a gift and a blessing.

Thankfully, I have my mom and a small group of close friends who are there for me 24/7 and whom I can trust and depend on.

I remember watching the Grammys and looking at the performances and crying to my mom, saying how much I wanted to be there.

I always wanted to be a mom.

When I was younger, I had a perm, and it was really big. My mom was a hairdresser, so even my dad had a perm! I looked like a poodle, but it was cool at the time.

I'm a lioness. I have four cubs. I'm a mom. I want to take care of my kids and protect them.

My mom is at my house every day, and she nags me about everything, especially hygiene.

I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom's family in the Carolinas. There were chains on the car - it was the late sixties - and we were just singing in the car. Christmas carols.

When I was little, my mom tells me, I used to say things like, 'Mom do you hear the string section? Do you hear the string section?' And she would look at me and say, 'No honey, I don't know what you're talking about.'

Being the only man in the household with my mom definitely helped me grow up fast.

If I could get any animal it would be a dolphin. I want one so bad. Me and my mom went swimming with dolphins and I was like, 'How do we get one of those?' and she was like, 'You can't get a dolphin. What are you gonna do, like, put it in your pool?'

I'm not a religious person. My mom was of Jewish blood and my dad was Protestant.

My dad believes in God, I think. I'm not sure if my mom does. I don't.

Fortunately, when you're a mom, the responsibility of caring for your child can keep you going.

My mom has made it possible for me to be who I am. Our family is everything. Her greatest skill was encouraging me to find my own person and own independence.

I forgive my mom for being a psycho and my dad for being a loser.

It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from 'Dear Abby' instead of going to Mom and Dad.

I hear my friends and my mom tell me I'm special, but honestly, I still don't get it.

My mom and I have always been there for each other. We had some tough times, but she was always there for me.

I don't want to have kids for like 10 years. I still have a lot to do. I don't even know if I could handle a dog right now. I'm so not ready. Someday I'll be a mom but not until I'm in my 30s.

As a mom I know that raising children is the hardest job there is.

I consider my mom and all my sisters my friends.

The best situation is being a single parent. The best part about is that you get time off, too, because the kids are with their mom, so it's the best of both worlds. There's a lot to be said for it.

My mom, Irmelin, taught me the value of life. Her own life was saved by my grandmother during World War II.

I'm going to let people know that it's cool to have a child and be young and still be a good mom. It's really tough, but I'm doing it.

My mom, God rest her soul - she liked nicknames. In the womb she named me Skip. There was another black guy in Piedmont, W.Va., and his name was Skip. They called him Big Skip, and I was Little Skip.

I feel like a good mom. I'm a strong woman now... Don't look down on me. Pray for me because I'm trying.

And the greatest lesson that mom ever taught me though was this one. She told me there would be times in your life when you have to choose between being loved and being respected. Now she said to always pick being respected.

Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy.

My father wasn't really involved and my mom is the light in my life.

The real estate agent had to go door-to-door in the apartment building we wanted to rent, asking if it was OK for this interracial family - my mom is white and I was a 1-year-old half-African kid - to live in the apartment building.

My dad never blew anything up, but he probably had friends who did. He and my mom have always preached that the pen is mightier than a Molotov cocktail.

I grabbed my mom and I went to the couch and I said, 'Mom I want to ask Jesus to come into my heart.' And I got on my knee and I asked Jesus to come into my heart, forgive me of my sins, and make me a child of God.

My mom used to make everything. She had a great garden and composted and made everything from scratch - peanut butter, bread, jelly, everything. I don't know how she did it because all those things take time and love and labour. I only do half the stuff she does - but there's still time.

I'm a mom, so I have to be comfortable. Jeans are a staple - I have way too many in my closet! It's warm in Florida, so I wear jeans and a tank top every day. I love my True Religions, my Rich and Skinny, and Citizens of Humanity. But I also love getting dressed up!

Mom spent the time that she was supposed to be a kid actully raising children, her younger brother and younger sister. She was tough as nails and did not suffer fools at all. And the truth was she could not afford to. She spoke the truth, bluntly, directly, and without much varnish. I am her son.

I didn't understand that I could sing until I was like 11 or 12. My mom heard me singing around the house and she said, What are you doing? You really can sing! So then I started going to school and singing to the girls.

My mom being a psychotherapist, I've been brought up with that whole psychoanalytical terrain.

I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do.

I probably have an earlier curfew than anyone. My mom wants to keep me really safe and my dad's not overly protective, but he's a dad no matter what.

People always accuse me of being motivational in a way, like it was a bad thing, but that's just how I was raised. My mom raised me in a positive environment, with lots of love in my heart, and that reflects in my music.

My mom used to say that I became a fighter and a scrapper and a tough guy to protect who I am at my core.

My mom knows when something is real and something is not.

I've never had a very closely connected family. My parents split up when I was young and I was living with my mom for a little while, then I was kind of just on my own really young. It wasn't some kind of global tragedy, it was just never really a very close-knit family. So there was support in the sense that they didn't stand in my way.

I just go about my life. I'm a mom, I drive an SUV, I go to the grocery store every day. I'm definitely not a celebrity. I always say that I'm a celebrity-adjacent.

Fact: The new '90210' is cooler than the old '90210.' It's the lithe, streamlined Skipper to the elder series' venerable Barbie. Gone are the traditional parents - they've been replaced by a hipster mom n' pop who get busted necking in the car.

I make a lot of mistakes, too, and I'm constantly re-evaluating how I'm doing things and trying to be better every day, whether it's as a mom or taking care of myself.

Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad. Kids lead a very private life. And I was a typical child, I think. I was a liar.

Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad.

My mom and I were super tight. I think she really wanted me to be an artist, you know? She used to like to tell people she wanted to be Beethoven's mother. That was her thing. She wanted to be the mother of this person.

My dad and mom believed that you do what you have to do in private and don't make a big deal out of it. Just try to help people as much as you can.

My relationship with my mom is really the single most profound relationship that I've ever had in my life.

My parents are wonderful, and I'm really lucky - but my mom has always been almost exclusively a right-brained person. She goes completely on her feelings of things, on her intuition, and so she instilled that in my brothers and I.

My dad is a Deadhead, my mom's a Jewish-American princess from Jersey.

Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.

My Mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. I said, 'Mom, they weren't trying to teach you how to swim.'

My mom was a waitress, and my dad was a plumber who worked for the City of San Clemente fixing mains breaks, so not too glamorous.

I like to work. The self-esteem and satisfaction that I get from working makes me a better person, which makes me a better mom. I feel lucky because I have the luxury of working only one or two days a week.

I don't drink, and I don't smoke. It's a personal preference. My mom has never drunk or smoked. I look up to my mom.

I pretty much borrow my entire beauty regime from my mom.

I know my mom said as early as she can remember letting me watch TV, my one treat a week when I was like 6 was to stay up and watch 'Saturday Night Live.'

I want to be as healthy as I can because I'm a mom now.

I have so much respect for my mom and all the women across the world.

I guess now that I think back, I used to play priest and be a funny priest. I don't know, I grew up in such a Catholic family that I kind of liked to test the boundaries a little bit and I think I had fun watching my mom laugh.

When I was a little girl, rocking my little dolls, I remember thinking I would be the world's best mom, and so far I've done it.

When I was in nursery school, the teachers asked me, y'know, 'What does your dad do for a living?' So I said 'He helps women get pregnant!' They called my mom and they were like, 'What exactly does your husband do?'

Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edges of the middle class. My daddy sold carpeting and ended up as a maintenance man. After he had a heart attack, my mom worked the phones at Sears so we could hang on to our house.

I could do without 'cool' publications calling me 'mom jazz.' But I laughed all the way to the bank, baby.

My mom just didn't put a very high premium on me being like really famous or really wealthy or anything.

It's not common for a woman on television, especially if she's the mom of the family, to be funny. She's usually a straight man or foil.

My mom and I used to listen to records, read, and take train rides across the country in the summer. It was a very chill life. She didn't expose me to anything that was ahead of my development, but she expected me to adjust to her world - she did not expect to adjust to mine.

Isn't it so weird the day you wake up and you're just going with the flow? And you just suddenly are a mom.

I'm a sappy mom now. I didn't think I would be. I thought I'd be a cool mom who keeps everything in perspective.

I was always a drama queen. I remember playing in the kitchen, trying to get my mom to think I was dead and call the police. When she didn't, I would cry. I was always theatrical. I don't think any of my relatives are surprised.

My mom knows pretty well how I see her.

I'm ridiculous in my oversharing my mom and sister are very open but a little more judicious than me... and my father is a decidedly private person.

God blessed me with two unbelievable parents, and I am just like both of them. I have the smile and charisma of my mother and the big heart of my mom, because she wants to save the world and help the world, so I am just like her.

My mom was always saying: 'Be whatever you want to be, but stick with it. Don't waver. Don't change who you are for anybody.'

My mom always says I cut my teeth on the church pew.

My mom said the only reason men are alive is for lawn care and vehicle maintenance.

Well, my mom is single and we've both been single at the same time over the last ten years, so I really related to the bond between my character and Diane's.

I always knew I wanted kids, but when my mom passed away I was like, 'I want a bunch of kids. I want three kids or four kids, and I want to have that relationship again.' I can't bring my mom back, but I can have children.

Not to be weird, but I still have an ongoing relationship with my mom, even though she passed away, and I've been surprised at how much I've been able to convey to her. Now I sound like a total weirdo, but that's true.

My mom loved rock 'n roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around.

I made some truly awful movies. 'Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot' was the worst. If you ever want someone to confess to murder just make him or her sit through that film. They will confess to anything after 15 minutes.

I used to say, 'Man, I think I'd be a really good dad. I'll be a great provider. I'm funny I'll go on trips with them - I'll do all sorts of stuff.' But the momming? I'm not made for that. I have a really good mom I know what she put into it.

Washington has got to, across the board, lower taxes for small businesses so that our mom and pops can reinvest and hire people, so that our businesses can thrive.

I'm really happy to be a mom, and I'm proud of the phase I'm in.

Mom ran the house, so we grew up Portuguese.

My food is Louisiana, New Orleans-based, well-seasoned, rustic. I think it's pretty unique because of my background being influenced by my mom, Portuguese and French Canadian. There's a lot going on there.

My family, you know, are all still, you know, very close. We're all still very close. Mom and Daddy are still alive. So, what more can you ask for? Your kids are healthy.

I know how to do anything, I'm a mom.

Being a singer is all about me. About ego. Being a mom is all about being selfless - two different worlds.

My mom used to say that Greek Easter was later because then you get stuff cheaper.

As far as I'm concerned, there's no job more important on the planet than being a mom.

I didn't come from a trailer park. I grew up middle class and my dad had money and my mom made my lunch. I got a car when I was sixteen. I'm proud of that.

I did find some time to go to a record store and check out 'Headstrong' actually in the racks. It was pretty cool I never thought I'd see my own CD sitting there with everyone else's. I made my Mom take lots of pics!

Once in high school, I completely over plucked my left eyebrow all the way up to where you're not supposed to. I had no idea what I was doing and it looked terrible! My mom was like 'What did you do to yourself?' I was so embarrassed.

The 'believe' tattoo is because my mom always told me to believe.

My mom is very confident and she was always a role model of mine.

My mom put me and my sisters in the water to feel comfortable, to have water safety.

Even in high school, I'd tell my mom I was sick of swimming and wanted to try to play golf. She wasn't too happy. She'd say, 'Think about this.' And I'd always end up getting back in the pool.

My humanitarian work evolved from being with my family. My mom, my dad, they really set a great example for giving back. My mom was a nurse, my dad was a school teacher. But my mom did a lot of things for geriatrics and elderly people. She would do home visits for free.

Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom.

My mom insisted on multigrain bread and never allowed soda in the house.

I was always at peace because of the way my mom treated me.

Come Christmas Eve, we usually go to my mom and dad's. Everybody brings one gift and then we play that game when we all steal it from each other. Some are really cool, others are useful and some are a bit out there.

Depending on what day of the week it is and what time of the month it is, I'm a good friend or not a good friend. I'm more or less a good mom or not a good mom, more or less a good mate or not a good mate. That's just life, whether or not you're public.

My mom's discipline worked out perfectly. I wouldn't change a thing.

My mom's never been married. I've never even seen my mom kiss a dude.

If you would ask my mom what books I liked growing up, I liked Dr. Seuss.

I was born and raised in East Los Angeles by a single mom who had three biological kids and adopted four more. I never met my dad.

When I got into junior high school, that's when my mom let me dress how I wanted to dress. Up to that point I wore suits to school all the time.

I remember when I was 11, I told my mom, 'One day I'm going to buy you a house.' And she said, 'Boy, don't you be making promises you can't keep.' I was like: 'No, Ma, it's not a promise. I'm going to buy you a house one day.'

These days it's cool to be ethnic and to be different, but when I was a kid, it was not cool - at all. My friends would come over and my mom would make crepes with eggs, stuffed with mozzarella cheese, tomatoes and spinach. And they'd be like, 'What is this?'

Every time I think I have something under control, it changes and I don't have it under control. I think it takes several years to get there. Jade is 19 months old, so right now I'm on alert all the time. And as a mom I think you're constantly worrying about things.

Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three.

I must admit, even though I'm the product of two Jewish parents, I think the Irish temper got in there somewhere, so I'm going to check Mom's genealogy.

I didn't know my Dad - he moved out early. And my mom's politics were kind of hardscrabble. She didn't think about Democrats or Republicans. She thought about who made sense. I've been both in my life.

With my new venture, Club Mom, we want to empower moms to feel their value and also build their collective power to make their lives better and easier. We want to bring them together as a community to share experiences and information.

Because sorry to say, women run the house. They run the family. They hold things up. I mean, it's like you don't ever see your mom get sick because she handles everything. And it's kind of amazing I think to show people just how strong women are.

I'm lucky that my real-life Mom has both a great sense of humor about herself and an amazing ability to slip into complete denial if the subject matter gets a little too close to home.

I'm more straightforward, and I speak up more than I did before. When I was younger, I wouldn't speak up as much, but now that I'm a mom, things have changed.

My mom is going to kill me for talking about sleeping with people. But I don't want to put myself in the position where I'm in a monogamous relationship right now. I'm not dating just one person. 'Sex and the City' changed everything for me because those girls would sleep with so many people.

President Obama's fight for rural America is personal. He was raised by a single mom and grandparents from Kansas. He hails from a farming state, Illinois.

I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.

My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.

I love being a single mom. But it's definitely different when you're dating.

Yes, I always remember my dad's, mom's and my grandma's perfumes.

Financial hardships were rough on us, even though Mom had a good job at G.M.

It was always a fantasy of mine growing up - my favorite program was always 'Little House on the Prairie' - so I always wanted to wear those looks. When I was a child, I wouldn't let my mom put me in anything but calico dresses and now... whaddaya know, every day I'm in a calico dress, basically, so it's kind of funny.

You do need parental guidance and I was in a great position with both my mum and dad. They split when I was a baby but even though I stayed with my mom they were both very much involved in my upbringing.

My mom always says, 'If you don't believe in something, you'll lose yourself completely.'

I was thinking that when I have children, that I should always dress as a character for them, so they think their mom is Alice in Wonderland or Cinderella.

It's superfun being a mom, but it's hard too.

Being a mom is hard, I think a lot of working moms feel that way.

My mom always said I was the peacemaker in the family. My older brother, Eric, was the leader, the creative one. I was just his puppet.

I was thinking that when I have children, that I should always dress as a character for them, so they think their mom is Alice in Wonderland or Cinderella. It would be totally messed up!

My mom and dad met at Anaheim High School. After they got married, all they wanted to do was have four children, and they did.

I wish I had an extra day with my mom sometimes. Or another hour in the day with my family, husband and children.

The golden child may be the oldest one, unless it's the youngest. It may be the toughest one, unless it's the most sensitive. It's not even necessary that Mom and Dad have the same favorite - and typically they don't.

In Hollywood, you play a mom, and the next thing you know, you're on 'The Golden Girls.' They age you so fast.

In Hollywood, you play a mom and instantly, you've got osteoporosis.

My mom is painfully sweet she's from Nebraska.

My mom was a diabetic. Her sister was a diabetic, so I was already a candidate.

When my dad divorced my mom it was kind of like him leaving me also.

After my mom died, there was so much written about her fashion and her style and all that, and I felt that one of the most important parts of her was missing, her real intellectual curiosity.

No matter how good you are, at some point your kids are gonna have to create their own independence and think that Mom and Dad aren't cool, just to establish themselves. That's what adolescence is about. They're gonna go through that no matter what.

I was always okay with the fact that I was taller and bigger than everybody else growing up. My mom, my dad, and my friends always told me I was beautiful.

When I turned 18, my mom, my nana and I all went and had tattoos of our favorite Bible verses put on the inside of our wrists. Mine is 1st Timothy, 4:12.

When I was 7, I came up with the idea of 'charm socks.' My mom would take me to buy bags of plastic charms, we would sew them on frilly white socks, and I sold them at school.

My Mom always cooked healthy. Greek food lends itself to cooking healthy.

From the moment this baby came into our home, those two dogs have never been more in love. It's the most beautiful thing I've ever witnessed. People keep saying, 'Oh, you're a single mom.' I'm like, 'Actually, I'm not. I've got two boys helping.'

So far I'm not surprised by anything about being a mom. It's all pretty great - but that's what I expected.

I was worried about my mom more than I was worried about the president. And then I was worried about the president, and then I was worried about myself.

Aretha Franklin was a teenage mom, a musician who came from an incredibly Christian background, but there was a lot of love, which is really inspiring in a feminist way.

When I moved out of my mom's house at 18 I was almost as sad to leave her sewing machine behind as anything else.

I was given baby doll toys myself, and they proved a stark reminder that my life was expected to revolve around childbearing - just as my mom's had before me, and her mom's had before her.

We all seek approval, and our mother's seal is usually the most important. The nitty gritty is that we have to accept ourselves, even if it is just to be ready for the next cut-down. Mom's blessing or not.

I was brought up by a single mom in a poor town in Arkansas and while some aspects of small-town life were really positive - like the fact that everyone there is really sweet and hospitable - there is also this close-minded mentality, and that naturally made me want to rebel.

My mother told me Homer Ditto was not my father. Nope. Mom had had a fling with some other guy who was my dad. Some dude who didn't stick around too long who Mom was happy to get rid of. She chose Homer, and Homer chose me, so he lent me his name even though I didn't have his blood.

If my Dad doesn't like you, you will know. My Mom is just too innocent to ever lie. She doesn't even cuss.

I have a chaperone everywhere I go - my mom.

Something my mom taught me when I was little is that everything happens for a reason.

There is nothing I love more than my role as a mom.

I look up to my mom. She's a beautiful woman.

My mom, she wasn't like a baseball mother who knew everything about the game. She just wanted me to be happy with what I was doing.

I feel like I've lived quite a sheltered life, like my mom and dad were quite protective of me.

I bought a house for my mom, I bought a house for my dad, I bought a house for my sister.

There is nothing worse that a thirteen-year-old boy. You're embarrassed by your parents, and you're trying to find your independance because, deep inside, you are so dependent on your mom.

A friend of my mom's was a casting director so, really as kind of a lark, I had a couple of acting jobs that had just enough exposure to give me the option to continue if I wanted to. I followed through with it.

I'm a religious person. I remember my mom told me: 'Vengeance belongs to God. It's up to him to wreak vengeance.' It's hard for me to get to that point, but that's the work of God.

Sunscreen is my number 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 tip. I'm a fanatic, partially because I live in L.A. and have fair skin and freckles, and partially because of my kids. My mom always made me wear sunscreen and I'm trying to be that mom for them.

I've actually suffered from allergies my entire life. My mom had allergies, so I was aware of what an issue they can be. Many people allow their allergies to affect their lives. As a mom with two kids and two jobs, I just can't let allergies slow me down. It's a day to day thing that can really be remedied by finding the right medication.

My mom was paranoid about my safety.

Mom was a smoker. My grandfather was a smoker. My aunts were smokers. My uncles were smokers. I don't know any smokers now, not even my mom.

My mom drives me crazy sometimes, but I have a good relationship with her.

My mom enlisted in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and my parents actually bought our home thanks to the loan she got through the GI Bill.

My dad is like a cactus - introverted and tough. I'm a people person, like my mom, but I got my competitiveness from my dad. He came to this country from Belarus with nothing and built a real business. He's my hero for giving me that need to run a business and for having enormous confidence in me.

People who build family businesses are not classically trained. They have to deal with an enormous amount of politics. You think corporate politics are tough? Go work for your dad or your mom.

It's about getting the kids up and fed, getting one to school, getting the other down for a nap, going to the grocery store, picking one up from school, getting the other one down for another nap, cooking dinner... I live my life at these two extremes. I'm either a full-time stay-at-home mom or a full-time actress.

I remember, my mom didn't have any help, so if she needed to be somewhere after school, we'd just go down to the neighbors' and she'd give us a snack and make sure we did our homework. There weren't any latchkey kids.

My mom has always said that the one thing she wishes she had done differently is have a job. She felt like the single-mindedness made her a little nuts sometimes, and she could have used an outlet for herself when we were little.

My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and the way she got out of poverty was through education. My dad grew up without a dad, with very little and he also made his way out through education.

My mom was really vigorous about making sure that we saw things and that we questioned things. Education was so important to both of my parents.

I've always wanted to be a mom at 23, 24ish, ever since I was a little girl. I'm right on schedule.

It's her first grandchild, so she's really, really, really excited. I guess my mom is a little more stressed out than me.

Mom would kill me if I showed my navel.

My hat was pulled down and this girl said 'Are you really him?' I whispered 'Yeah, I'm really him.' She screamed, 'Mom! Dad! It's Heath Ledger!

In all honesty, at that time, I never saw myself as an author... I was just a Mom in a state of panic, trying to enter a short story contest to win the prize money in order to keep the lights on in my home.

When I was a kid I didn't feel like I fit in because - this is really silly and I probably shouldn't say it, but, I didn't think anything was funny. So I used to go home and literally cry to my mom and my step-dad at the time and I didn't think anything was funny. I couldn't laugh.

I really want to adopt a child... I want to be called 'Mom.' It really is the most beautiful word in the English language.

I wanted to be a 150% entrepreneur and a 150% mom, and I found that I was having a very hard time doing both. I was about 75% and 75% - still better than 100%, but not what I was accustomed to at work.

Every single thing I learned about marketing and building my business, I learned from my mom, and she had never been in the workforce. She just had great practical sense.