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.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

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

The triumph of hope over experience.

Samuel Johnson

A married man has many cares, but a bachelor no pleasures.

Samuel Johnson

A man of sense and education should meet a suitable companion in a wife. It is a miserable thing when the conversation can only be such as whether the mutton should be boiled or roasted, and probably a dispute about that.

Samuel Johnson

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

Samuel Johnson

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

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.

Peter Ustinov

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

Lisa Kleypas

Weddings are never about the bride and groom, weddings are public platforms for dysfunctional families.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poetry Love's Philosophy The fountains mingle with the river And the rivers with the ocean, The winds of heaven mix for ever With a sweet emotion; Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law divine In one another's being mingle— Why not I with thine? See the mountains kiss high heaven, And the waves clasp one another; No sister-flower would be forgiven If it disdain'd its brother; And the sunlight clasps the earth, And the moonbeams kiss the sea— What are all these kissings worth, If thou kiss not me?

Katharine Whitehorn

No nice men are good at getting taxis.

Wallace Stevens

The great poems of heaven and hell have been written and the great poem of earth remains to be written.

Zhuangzi

Heaven does without doing through its purity, Earth does without doing through its calmness.

Wilkie Collins

And earth was heaven a little the worse for wear. And heaven was earth, done up again to look like new.

Walter Scott

Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet

Winston Churchill

The United Nations was set up not to get us to heaven, but only to save us from hell.

Rick Warren

Why is this happening to me? Why am I having such a difficult time? One answer is that life is supposed to be difficult! It’s what enables us to grow. Remember, earth is not heaven!

Robert Green Ingersoll

Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.

Robert Green Ingersoll

If I go to heaven I want to take my reason with me.

William Hazlitt

Those who have had none of the cares of this life to harass and disturb them, have been obliged to have recourse to the hopes and fears of the next to vary the prospect before them.