Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eva Gabor

Marriage is too interesting an experiment to be tried only once.

Muriel Rukeyser

My lifetime listens to yours.

Mike Rounds

Marriage is one of the most sacred human institutions. I asked our Senators, as many South Dakotans have done, to protect marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

Kim Wilde

My parents have a wonderful marriage, for many years. But I can't commit myself for such a long time.

Ovid

If thou wouldst marry wisely, marry thine equal.

Paul Newman

People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.

Maryon Pearson

Behind every great man there is a surprised woman.

Pat Conroy

Each divorce is the death of a small civilization.

Julia Quinn

My mother is convinced that yellow is a happy color and that a happy girl would get a husband. -Penelope Featherington

Joseph Joubert

One should choose for a wife only such a woman as he would choose for a friend, were she a man.

King Edward VIII

When you're bored with yourself, marry and be bored with someone else.

Moliere

A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman's ailments.

Milton Berle

My wife and I have a perfect understanding. I don't try to run her life, and I don't try to run mine.

Milton Berle

Marriage is one of the few institutions that allow a man to do as his wife pleases.

Nancy Mitford

Always remember, children, that marriage is a very intimate relationship. It's not just sitting and chatting to a person; there are other things, you know.

Keith Richards

I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage.

Mark Twain

What a world of trouble those who never marry escape! There are many happy matches, it is true, and sometimes "my dear," and "my love" come from the heart; but what sensible bachelor, rejoicing in his freedom and years of discretion, will run the tremendous risk?

Mark Twain

God's great cosmic joke on the human race was requiring that men and women live together in marriage

Mark Twain

Men and women -- even man and wife are foreigners. Each has reserves that the other cannot enter into, nor understand. These have the effect of frontiers.

The woman who does her job for society inside the four walls of her home must not be considered by her husband or anyone else an economic "dependent," reaching out her hands in mendicant fashion for financial help.

The economic dependence of woman and her apparently indestructible illusion that marriage will release her from loneliness and work and worry are potent factors in immunizing her from common sense in dealing with men at work.

Marilyn Monroe

If marriage were only bed, we could have made it.

Mary-Louise Parker

I don’t think it’s that controversial. I’m really in favor of legalizing marijuana. I thought people would be more offended by [this series] than they are. I’m surprised they weren’t.

Nicholas Sparks

A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, in the expectation that the other will do the same.

Nicholas Sparks

Before we met, I was as lost as a person could be and yet you saw something in me that somehow gave me direction again.

Natalie Wood

When I get married it will be for keeps.

Marilyn Monroe

A career is a wonderful thing, but you can't snuggle up to it at night.

Oscar Wilde

The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.

Oscar Wilde

Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

No labourer in the world is expected to work for room, board, and love -except the housewife.

Leah Ward Sears

A mother is a mother all of your life,but a father is a father only when he has a wife.

LeAnn Rimes

A good friend just told me that the key to a successful marriage was to argue naked! I'm gonna do that from now on, when that rarely happens.

Laurence Housman

If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.