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Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll; women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant.


Ani Difranco

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KELLY JONES An angry enemy is a conquered enemy
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Sex and drugs and rock and roll.
IAN DURY I'm a rock and roll singer.
ADAM ANT I'm not so rock and roll. I'm more techno.
RAF SIMONS Rock and roll is here to stay.
NEIL YOUNG Rock is not dead, but it is The Walking Dead, with a few groups still trying to survive in a zombie ...
MICHAEL P. NAUGHTON I always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.
ARETHA FRANKLIN You should make a woman angry if you wish her to love
PUBLILIUS SYRUS When women agree with me I always do the other thing
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
JACKIE MASON Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other ...
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MARIE CORELLI I married beneath me. All women do.
CHER For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely unnatur...
COTY PERFUME AD There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literatu...
STEPHEN STILLS Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon them.
ANONYMOUS Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
HONORE DE BALZAC My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in bed with ...
LENNY BRUCE Study to be quiet, and to do your own business. [1 Thessalonians 4:11].
BIBLE If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
CHEKHOV Epperson's law: When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can be...
ANONYMOUS In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
JOHNNY CARSON Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
ANONYMOUS Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
ANONYMOUS Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like what y...
ANONYMOUS Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
ANONYMOUS Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
ANONYMOUS It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
ANONYMOUS He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
ANONYMOUS All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
ANONYMOUS A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What do yo...
ANONYMOUS A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
ANONYMOUS Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
ANONYMOUS Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to do...b...
ANONYMOUS Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her o...
ANONYMOUS Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's family d...
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ROBERT BRIFFAULT Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother...
ENGLISH PROVERB An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is ...
HONORE DE BALZAC If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
LENNY BRUCE Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.
LIN Yü-TANG I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.
LADY NANCY ASTOR Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
S. T. COLERIDGE Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try to give their best qualiti...
JOAN BAEZ Women like silent men. They think they're listening.
MARCEL ARCHARD My wife organized the Jewish Women's Caucus boycott of Moses.. wait.. ! I am receiving a correction ...
JOHN C LEHMAN Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
JIM BACKUS She is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.
EDMUND BURKE If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing...
MARY FRANCES BERRY Woman was God's second mistake.
ARISTOTLE ONASSIS No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in lo...
ROGERS The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
IRWIN COREY It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
BASKINS I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how to m...
DAVID BISSONETTE The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS On one issue, at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.
H. L. MENCKEN A woman's head is always influenced by heart; but a man's heart by his head. -Lady Marguerite Bless...
LADY MARGUERITE BLESSINGTON If it's a woman, its caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative. -Barbara Walters.
BARBARA WALTERS A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry is to a woman.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON There is nothing enduring in life for a woman except what she builds in a man's heart.
JUDITH ANDERSON They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in congress you know that the filibuster was i...
CLARE BOOTH LUCE When women go wrong, men go right after them. -Mae West.
MAE WEST The society of women is the element of good manners.
JONATHAN S. HAAS Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
PAULINE THOMASON I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
F. M. KNOWLES Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
SAM KINISON Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
JOHN HEYWOOD I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the ...
MADAME DE RIEUX Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
AMY BLOOM A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your girdle...
POOR JIMMY'S ALMANAC Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. J...
MARY BUCKLEY Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
ANNE BRADSTREET A small family is soon provided for.
MARVIN KITMAN Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a lit...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
SPANISH PROVERB To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old ...
THOMAS B. ALDRICH I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
BETTE-JANE RAPHAEL I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including: * Both of your socks ...
JILLY COOPER Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker room is th...
DAVE BARRY Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
NAVAHO SAYING He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows.
THOMAS FULLER When a man brings his wife flowers for no reason, there's a reason.
MOLLY MCGEE The mandate for equal opportunity doesn't dictate disregard for the differences in candidates' quali...
TIM III ELLIS We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive v...
SIDNEY J. HARRIS Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn...
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. -Timothy Leary.
TIMOTHY LEARY I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call m...
REBECCA WEST Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves. ...
BETTY FRIEDAN When women go wrong, men go right after them.
CHARLOTTE WHITTON If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them...
SACHA GUITRY Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any...
JANE GOODSELL Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it pure ig...
MARGO KAUFMAN Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
WEDDING TOAST To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
SCOTTISH PROVERB To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whene...
CESARE PAVESE There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriag...
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
JAMES HOLT MCGAVRAN Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
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