marriage wishes quotes

Hardly a name in profane history is more august than his. Hardly another character in the world's record has made so little of its opportunities. His discovery was a blunder; his blunder was a new world; the New World is his monument! ~Justin Winsor


The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. ~Edmund Burke


A Rattlesnake, if Cornered will become so angry it will bite itself. That is exactly what the harboring of hate and resentment against others is - a biting of oneself. We think we are harming others in holding these spites and hates, but the deeper harm is to ourselves. ~E. Stanley Jones


It is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in. ~Earl of Chesterfield


You know what's wrong with you, Miss Whoever-You-Are? You're chicken, you've got no guts. You're afraid to stick out your chin and say, "Okay, life's a fact, people do fall in love, people do belong to each other, because that's the only chance anybody's got for real happiness." You call yourself a free spirit, a wild thing, and you're terrified somebody's going to stick you in a cage. Well, baby, you're already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it's not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somaliland. It's wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself. ~From the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1961, screenplay by George Axelrod, based on the novella by Truman Capote, spoken by the character Paul Varjak You know when I was depressed I said I didn't want to live? Well, I'll tell you something - I didn't want to die. ~Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess, The Sopranos, "Isabella," original airdate 28 March 1999, spoken by the character Tony Soprano


To be a fashionable woman is to know yourself, know what you represent, and know what works for you. To be "in fashion" could be a disaster on 90 percent of women. You are not a page out of Vogue. ~Author Unknown


The moon is like a mystery novel, the sun like a motivational self-help book, and the stars a coffee table book of photography. The sky is the whole library, and God the librarian. ~Terri Guillemets


No one ever excused his way to success. ~Dave Del Dotto


The essential question is not, "How busy are you?" but "What are you busy at?" ~Oprah Winfrey


A machine has value only as it produces more than it consumes - so check your value to the community. ~Martin H. Fischer


The time to begin most things is ten years ago. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


There are whole years for which I hope I'll never be cross-examined, for I could not give an alibi. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father. ~George Herbert


Remedy it, or welcome it: a wise man's only two choices. ~Terri Guillemets


Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken. ~Jonathan Swift


A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. ~Chinese Proverb


Eat, drink and be scary. ~Author Unknown


Injury, when it is slight, upsets me; when it is strong it calms me. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin


Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.


We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves. ~George M. Adams