Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Worst, when this sensualism intrudes into the education of young women, and withers the hope and affection of human nature, by teaching that marriage signifies nothing but a housewife's thrift, and that woman's life has no other aim.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?

Sean Penn

Marriage ain't easy, but it's great most of the time.

Lily Rabe

Mark Conseulos is so amazing.

Les Dawson

Marriage is an institution and that's where a couple finishes up.

Lenny Bruce

Never tell. Not if you love your wife...In fact, if your old lady walks in on you deny it. Yeah. Just flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around her neck 'Lay On Top Of Me Or I'll Die.' " I didn't know what I was goin' to do...

L. Ron Hubbard

This relationship is the vessel wherein is nurtured the life force of both individuals, whereby they create the future of the human race in body and thought.

Tertullian

And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.

Lawrence O'Donnell

While alcohol ... continues to wreak havoc in America, supported by a $6 billion-a-year alcohol industry advertising campaign extolling the joy of inebriation, the far less harmful drug of marijuana remains illegal and continues to ruin people's lives - only if they are caught possessing and convicted of that crime.

Lewis Grizzard

I came from a big family. As a matter of fact, I never got to sleep alone until I was married.

Joseph Heller

I couldn't see tying myself down with a middle-aged woman with four children, even though the woman was my wife and the children were my own.

Joseph Campbell

When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.

Joyce Brothers

My husband and I have never considered divorce... murder sometimes, but never divorce.

Joyce Carol Oates

The institution of marriage is just formalizing an emotion, an attempt to make it seem permanent. The emotion will last or it won't last; nothing can guarantee it.

Jules Michelet

If you wish to ruin yourself, marry a rich wife.

Jules Feiffer

We want playmates we can own.

Karl Barth

The gospel is not a truth among other truths. Rather, it sets a question mark against all truths.

Karl Kraus

Since the law prohibits the keeping of wild animals and I get no enjoyment from pets, I prefer to remain unmarried.

Karl Kraus

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Joyce Cary

Sara could commit adultery at one end and weep for her sins at the other, and enjoy both operations at once.

Ovid

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

It is ill to marry in the month of May.

Ovid

What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.

Ovid

Love is no assignment for cowards.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

A system could not well have been devised more studiously hostile to human happiness than marriage.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Constancy has nothing virtuous in itself, independently of the pleasure it confers, and partakes of the temporizing spirit of vice in proportion as it endures tamely moral defects of magnitude in the object of its indiscreet choice.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Yes, marriage is hateful, detestable. A kind of ineffable, sickening disgust seizes my mind when I think of this most despotic, most unrequited fetter which prejudice has forged to confine its energies.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

I never was attached to that great sect, Whose doctrine is, that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress or a friend, And all the rest, though fair and wise, commend To cold oblivion, though it is in the code Of modern morals, and the beaten road Which those poor slaves with weary footsteps tread, Who travel to their home among the dead By the broad highway of the world, and so With one chained friend — perhaps a jealous foe, The dreariest and the longest journey go.

Katharine Whitehorn

A good marriage is like Dr Who's Tardis: small and banal from the outside but spacious and interesting from within.

Katharine Hepburn

I don't believe in marriage. It's bloody impractical. 'To love, honor, and obey.' If it weren't, you wouldn't have to sign a contract.

Katharine Hepburn

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

Katharine Hepburn

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

Judith Viorst

Not listening is probably the commonest unkindness of married life, and one that creates - more devastatingly than an eternity of forgotten birthdays and misguided Christmas gifts - an atmosphere of not loving and not caring.