#age

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

— Ambrose Bierce

#community #condition #consisting #making #master

Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#come #go #into #lawsuit #machine

When you're in the muck you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still see the muck but you see it from a different perspective. And you see other things too. That's the consolation of philosophy. ↗

— David Cronenberg

#consolation #different #different perspective #float #manage

The God of the Hebrews is a God that human language, we're not even supposed to speak the holy name. We were told in the Second Commandment we could make no images of this God, and I don't think that means just building idols, I think that means also trying to believe you've captured God in your words, in the Creeds, in the Scriptures. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#believe #building #captured #commandment #could

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. ↗

— Judy Biggert

#age #amend #amendment #any #ban

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

— Judy Biggert

#between #first #i #i believe #i believe that

But then, I just decided to get off my lazy butt and take advantage of the L.A. weather. ↗

— Jason Biggs

#decided #get #i #just #lazy

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#age #blessing #harvest #old #old age

If I had a girl I should say to her, 'Marry for love if you can, it won't last, but it is a very interesting experience and makes a good beginning in life. Later on, when you marry for money, for heaven's sake let it be big money. There are no other possible reasons for marrying at all. ↗

— Nancy Mitford

#marriage #experience

With no other security forces on hand, U.S. military was left to confront, almost alone, an Iraqi insurgency and a crime rate that grew worse throughout the year, waged in part by soldiers of the disbanded army and in part by criminals who were released from prison. ↗

— John Spratt

#alone #army #confront #crime #crime rate