Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elizabeth Goudge

What is the distinguishing mark of an aristocrat?' she asked him suddenly.'Reverence,' he replied.

Jimmy Fallon

Researchers in Canada say they have discovered the part of the brain that is used to make decisions, and this is weird: If you're married, it's actually located in your wife's brain.

John Burns

I don't want to be married. I don't know - it sounds crazy, but in my mind, it's all connected. You get married, you have kids, you grow old, then you die. Somehow, it seems to me, if you didn't get married, you wouldn't die.

Joel Miller

Money spent in complying with a regulation cannot be spent again on marketing or product research.

Joel Osteen

I don't think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be.

Joel Osteen

Don't put a question mark where God has put a period.

Jim Talent

I've always believed the two best anti-poverty programs are work and marriage.

Lois Wyse

It was only long after the ceremony that we learned why we got married in the first place.

Logan Pearsall Smith

It is a matter of life and death for married people to interrupt each others stories; for it they did not, they would burst.

Madeleine Stowe

Yes, the marriage proposal was shot. Michael excluded the dialogue from the final edit.

Madeleine L'Engle

Sometimes idiosyncrasies which used to be irritating become endearing, part of the complexity of a partner who has become woven deep into our own selves.

Madeleine L'Engle

Because it is the nature of love to create, a marriage itself is something which has to be created, so that, together we become a new creature.

Louisa May Alcott

At twenty-five, girls begin to talk about being old maids, but secretly resolve that they never will. At thirty, they say nothing about it, but quietly accept the fact.

Jon Miller

We wrote our first blog post before we wrote our first line of code.

Justin Timberlake

We have a couple of rules in our relationship. The first rule is that I make her feel like she's getting everything. The second rule is that I actually do let her have her way in everything. And, so far, it's working.

Katherine Anne Porter

One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it.

James Madison

[Exchange] the galling burden of bachelorship for the easy yoke of matrimony.

Joe Rogan

Never stay in a bad marriage, and don't hang around with psycho coke fiends.

Emma Goldman

Nora leaves her husband, not-as the stupid critic would have it-because she is tired of her responsibilities or feels the need of woman's rights, but because she has come to know that for eight years she had lived with a stranger and borne him children. Can there be anything more humiliating, more degrading than a life-long proximity between two strangers? No need for the woman to know anything of the man, save his income. As to the knowledge of the woman-what is there to know except that she has a pleasing appearance?

Emma Goldman

Thus Dante's motto over Inferno applies with equal force to marriage: "Ye who enter here leave all hope behind.

Emma Goldman

From infancy, almost, the average girl is told that marriage is her ultimate goal; therefore her training and education must be directed toward that end. Like the mute beast fattened for slaughter, she is prepared for that.

John Heywood

A good wife maketh a good husband.

John Hay

Maidens! why should you worry in choosing whom you shall marry? Choose whom you may, you will find you have got somebody else.

John Galsworthy

Society is built on marriage ... marriage and its consequences.

John Dos Passos

I never understood exactly why people get engaged--The only time I ever did the most disastrous things happened--but I feel that there's a great deal to be said for immediate matrimony always. If I once got started I'd probably have to become a mormon to cover my confusion. What I mean is that if he and she are crazy about each other it is sheer tempting God to stay apart, come what may. And if people arent crazy about each other being engaged wont help them.

John Donne

What gnashing is not a comfort, what gnawing of the worm is not a tickling, what torment is not a marriage bed to this damnation, to be secluded eternally, eternally, eternally from the sight of God?

John Osborne

Marriage is rather a silly habit.

John Berger

All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.

Jimmy Swaggart

I'm knocking our pitiful, pathetic lawmakers. And I thank God that President Bush has stated, we need a Constitutional amendment that states that marriage is between a man and a woman.

George Ade

If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable.

Garry Shandling

Was the Buddha married? His wife would say, "Are you just going to sit around like that all day?"

Garrison Keillor

Marriage, friends, is a lifelong feast; love is no light lunch.

George Clooney

There's a coffin in the back of the church as the wedding is going on ... Look, I'm a romantic. I like marriage...In the movies.