Famous Quotes & Sayings

Don Herold

An honourable agreement among men as to their conduct toward women, and it was devised by women.

Dorothy L. Sayers

A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity.

Dora Russell

Marriage laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.

Colley Cibber

Oh! How many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring.

Diogenes

Young men not ought to marry yet, and old men never ought to marry at all.

Dick Martin

I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.

Dick Gregory

Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.

Chuck Palahniuk

But if you tell folks you're a college student, folks are so impressed. You can be a student in anything and not have to know anything. Just say toxicology or marine biokinesis, and the person you're talking to will change the subject to himself. If this doesn't work, mention the neural synapses of embryonic pigeons.

Christopher Morley

The man who never in his life Has washed the dishes with his wife Or polished up the silver plate - He still is largely celibate.

Amy Bloom

Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.

Anne Stevenson

I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy.

Anne Tyler

I suspect that marriage is like parenthood: every last one of us is an amateur at it ...

Anna Magnani

A divorcee is a women who got married so she didn't have to work, but now works so she doesn't have to get married.

Amy Grant

The more time you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes.

Anne Sexton

Some women marry houses. It's another kind of skin; it has a heart, a mouth, a liver and bowel movements.

Anne Sexton

And thus Snow White became the prince's bride. The wicked queen was invited to the wedding feast and when she arrived there were red-hot iron shoes, in the manner of red-hot roller skates, clamped upon her feet.

Anne Sexton

you see, we live in a cold climate and are not permitted to kiss on the street so I made up a song that wasn't true. I made up a song called Marriage.

Anne Sexton

the marriage twists, holds firm, a sailor's knot.

Anne Sexton

My husband sings Baa Baa black sheep and we pretend that all's certain and good, that the marriage won't end.

Anne Sexton

I am tearing the feathers out of the pillows, waiting, waiting for Daddy to come home and stuff me so full of our infected child that I turn invisible, but married, at last.

Anna Howard Shaw

I care nothing for all the political parties in the world except as they stand for justice.

D. H. Lawrence

The Sphinx-riddle. Solve it, or be torn to bits, is the decree.

D. H. Lawrence

Marriage is the clue to human life, but there is no marriage apart from the wheeling sun and the nodding earth, from the strayingof the planets and the magnificence of the fixed stars.

D. H. Lawrence

Protestantism came and gave a great blow to the religious and ritualistic rhythm of the year, in human life. Non-conformity almostfinished the deed.... Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos, and the permanence of marriage.

D. H. Lawrence

The old ideals are dead as nails--nothing there. It seems to me there remains only this perfect union with a woman--sort of ultimate marriage--and there isn't anything else.

D. H. Lawrence

Your most vital necessity in this life is that you shall love your wife completely and implicitly and in an entire nakedness of body and spirit.... this that I tell you is my message as far as I've got any.

Crystal Eastman

I took a small flat for myself and the children ... My husband took a room in a clean rooming house within easy walking distance of his office. ... It is wonderful sometimes to be alone in the night and just know that someone loves you. In other moods you must have that lover in your arms. Marriage under two roofs makes room for moods.

Clint Eastwood

There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.

Daniel Defoe

She is always married too soon, who gets a bad husband, and she is never married too late, who gets a good one.

Dan Black

The True Measure Of Success is determined by your home life.

David Hahn

Marketers need to adapt a "members first" approach to content.

Curtis Hanson

Consequently, pictures are aimed at certain audiences, whether it be a teen comedy or an action movie or whatever. It's unfortunate, because while it may lead to big opening grosses, a lot of pictures that are a little different and don't fit so neatly into either a niche market or a high-concept marketing approach can get lost in the shuffle. That's one unfortunate thing.

Andre Maurois

Marriage is not something that can be accomplished all at once; it has to be constantly reaccomplished. A couple must never indulge in idle tranquility with the remark: "The game is won; let's relax." The game is never won. The chances of life are such that anything is possible. Remember what the dangers are for both sexes in middle age. A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.