Asking Permission To Marry Quotes & Sayings

It's just that I think we should be responsible for our friends, is all. If we're not, why bother to have friends? — Chet Williamson

People cannot be controlled. Only our reactions can. — Mary Mihalic

That part of the press release about me asking your father's permission to marry you was true - well, partly true, anyway. I didn't ask permission - I knew you wouldn't like that, it's sexist. You're not your father's property. But I did see him before we left, to tell him I was going to propose to you this weekend, and ask for his blessing."
I was stunned. "Wait . . . is this what you meant when you said before we left that you'd talked to my parents?"
"Yes. I spoke to your mother, too, because she played an even bigger role in raising you. I thought it was the right thing to do. How do you think you got out of doing all those events - and birthday Cirque du Soleil with your grandmother - so easily? — Meg Cabot

The skirts of the gods Drag in our mud. We feel the touch And take it to be a kiss. — Christopher Fry

If guilt's a luxury, then I'm a plutocrat. — Fritz Leiber

This was more uncomfortable than sex talk with Granny. — Shelly Crane

If you get bored with the person you married for love,
there's something wrong with you - not with that person. — Shahrukh Khan

Even if you overcome a tremendous challenge and feel the personal victory, it's simply not powerful enough. It may activate your left brain, which says, 'I have achieved,' but it will not activate your more social right brain, which desperately desires to say, 'Look, Ma, I did it!' — Brendon Burchard

Alex: 'Cole, did you not like Saturday night? Because I loved it. It was quite possibly the best sex I've ever had.'
Cole: Damn straight. — Mia London

Great thoughts, great feelings came to them, Like instincts, unawares. — Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

The most fundamental message of Gautama the Buddha is not God, is not soul ... it is freedom: freedom absolute, total, unconditional. He does not want to give you an ideology, because every ideology creates its own slavery. — Rajneesh

They stared into the distance as though they were being absorbed into an alternate space-time reality. Perhaps they were. But probably they already had been. — Amy Tanner

Wisdom ruleth in counsel
so do riches. — Lancelot Andrewes

During the dot-com days, one could take just about any company public and reap fortunes. All you had to do was to make sky-high projections for growth, say you were in the Internet space, and go along with unscrupulous investment bankers and their analysts. — Vivek Wadhwa

You aren't what you eat - you are what you don't poop. — Wavy Gravy

In the dark glass where the road poured down their cigarettes rose and fell like distant semaphores above the soft green dawn of the dashlights. — Cormac McCarthy