quotes on wedding

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded. Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt. ~Edna Ferber, Show Boat, 1926



Ordinarily, a person leaving a courtroom with a conviction behind him would wear a somber face. But I left with a smile. I knew that I was a convicted criminal, but I was proud of my crime. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., March 22, 1956



God's promises are like the stars; the darker the night the brighter they shine. ~David Nicholas



There's an alternative. There's always a third way, and it's not a combination of the other two ways. It's a different way. ~David Carradine



Vehement silhouettes of Manhattan - that vertical city with unimaginable diamonds. ~Le Corbusier



I wish there was a knob on the TV so you could turn up the intelligence. They got one marked "brightness" but it don't work, does it? ~Leo Anthony Gallagher



My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places. ~A.A. Milne



Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. ~Leonard Cohen



Never ruin an apology with an excuse. ~Kimberly Johnson Never ruin an apology with an excuse. ~Kimberly Johnson



I suppose that leadership at one time meant muscle; but today it means getting along with people. ~Indira Gandhi



There are times when silence has the loudest voice. ~Leroy Brownlow



Worry, doubt, fear and despair are the enemies which slowly bring us down to the ground and turn us to dust before we die. ~Attributed to Douglas MacArthur



I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way. ~Mark Twain



Fishing is the sport of drowning worms. ~Author Unknown



In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity. ~Ambrose Bierce



To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it; and thus to know anything you must know all. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.



Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal. ~Author Unknown



Astrologers that future fates foreshow. ~Alexander Pope



Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science. ~Henry David Thoreau



Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. ~Claude Monet