Thurgood Marshall Quotes

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

I've been at Stoke for eight years... I think I've had the same towel for almost eight years.

If Marilyn is in love with my husband it proves she has good taste, for I am in love with him too.

Lest when I am gone you may be at a loss for an epitaph for me, let me give you one - He Fed Fevers.

I'm 86 and my doctor used to tell me to slow down - at least he did until he dropped dead.

I will die, but not retire.

I want to play this game as long as possible, and I want to do it as long as I can here in Chicago.

I'll shoot my age if I have to live to be 105.

The state of marriage is one that requires more virtue and constancy than any other; it is a perpetual exercise in mortification.

I could promise that I'll always be true to you, but we may not live to be so old.

When asked in his late 90s if his doctor knew he still smoked, Burns said, 'No ... he's dead.'

Growing old beats the alternative - dying young.

I'm not threatening to kill myself. But you need to know this about me because—if you want to be my mate—I won't be like Leo. I won't let you sleep around with anyone else. I won't be forced either. I've had enough. If that makes me a dog in the manger, so be it. But if I am yours, then you damned well are going to be mine." - Anna to Charles

[O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine.

Never. Till my last breath I will work. To retire there is only one place-the cremation ground.

Suicide is what everyone young thinks they'll do before they get old. But they hardly ever get round to it. They just don't want to commit themselves in that way. When you're young and you look ahead, time ends in mist at twenty-five. 'Old won't happen to me', you say. But old does. Oh, old does. Old always gets you in the end.

Aspirin will not bring dead hookers back to life.

Men would like monogamy better if it sounded less like monotony.

Take my advice and live for a long, long time. Because the maddest thing a man can do is this life is to let himself die.

I am a strict monogamist: it is twenty years since I last went to bed with two women at once, and then I was in my cups and not myself.

My wife is my protector. Without her, I'm nothing. She wants to please me, and I want to please her. We've been together over 53 years.

The best advice about getting older? Just be thankful you're not dead!

Love requires a willingness to die; marriage, a willingness to live.

I shall die very young...maybe seventy, maybe eighty, maybe ninety. But I shall be very young.

When I love somebody, I love somebody. Like, I want to marry them. I don't date around. I haven't been on a date.