Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rebecca West

Getting a divorce is nearly always as cheerful and useful an occupation as breaking valuable china.

Woody Allen

In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.

Walter Bagehot

Women--one half the human race at least--care fifty times more for a marriage than a ministry.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

Robert Louis Stevenson

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.

Sarah Fielding

I believe no gentleman would like to have his family affairs neglected because his wife was filling her head with crotchets and pothooks, and who, because she understood a few scraps of Latin, valued that more than minding her needle or providing her husband's dinner.

Samuel Johnson

It is so far from being natural for a man and woman to live in a state of marriage, that we find all the motives which they have for remaining in that connection, and the restraints which civilised society imposes to prevent separation, are hardly sufficient to keep them together.

Samuel Johnson

I would advise no man to marry who is not likely to propagate understanding.

Samuel Johnson

The triumph of hope over experience.

Ogden Nash

All husbands are alike, but they have different faces so you can tell them apart.

Katherine Jenkins

I would absolutely, definitely never sell my wedding pictures to a magazine. I'd like it to be a special day, not a photo shoot. And once you've done that, your marriage becomes everybody else's business.

Kris Kristofferson

If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.

Nicholas Sparks

I guess what I'm trying to say is that you are there, in everything I am, in everything I've ever done, and looking back, I know that I should have told you know much you've always meant to me.

Lily Aldridge

It's important to still look like yourself on your wedding day, so I didn't do anything drastic.

Oprah Winfrey

The roses, the lovely notes, the dining and dancing are all welcome and splendid. But when the Godiva is gone, the gift of real love is having someone who'll go the distance with you. Someone who, when the wedding day limo breaks down, is willing to share a seat on the bus.

Marcel Achard

The most dangerous food a man can eat is wedding cake. Woman like silent men, they think they are listening.

Kenny Loggins

A soulmate is the one person whose love is powerful enough to motivate you to meet your soul, to do the emotional work of self-discovery, of awakening.

Peter Ustinov

Monica Seles: I'd hate to be next door to her on her wedding night.

Woodrow Wilson

Only peace between equals can last.

William Blake

Enthusiastic Admiration is the first Principle of Knowledge and its last.

Jackie Williams

Recovery is a miracle. It lasts for a life time.

Chasity Rutjens

I just want to make sure it lasts me the rest of my life so I don't have to return to work.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

God is the last link of the chain, but He is the first also.

Jonathan Tropper

What it must feel like, I thought, to look at something, anything really, and know that it’s for the last time?

Kenneth H. Cooper

According to the Gallup Poll, 24 percent of American adults exercised regularly in 1961, and 50 percent after 1968. The peak was 59 percent in 1984, dropping off to 51 percent last September.

Kelley Armstrong

I've spent the last decade learning to stand firm and face my problems… or at least batter them until they're unrecognizable.

Harvey Cox

Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.