Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tony Robbins

Marry a man / woman you love to talk to. As you get older, their conversational skills will be as important as any other.

Simone de Beauvoir

Marriage is traditionally the destiny offered to women by society. Most women are married or have been, or plan to be or suffer from not being.

Simone de Beauvoir

Marriage is a career which brings about more benefits than many others.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

A wise woman will always let her husband have her way.

Reese Witherspoon

I think women are natural caretakers. They take care of everybody. They take care of their husbands and their kids and their dogs, and don't spend a lot of time just getting back and taking time out.

Robert A. Heinlein

A woman is not property, and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.

Ruth Benedict

So much of the trouble is because I am a woman. To me it seems a very terrible thing to be a woman. There is one crown which perhaps is worth it all--a great love, a quiet home, and children. We all know that is all that is worthwhile, and yet we must peg away, showing off our wares on the market if we have money, or manufacturing careers for ourselves if we haven't.

Ruby Dee

The divorce rate would be lower if instead of marrying for better or worse people would marry for good.

Russ Meyer

I'm a serial bigamist.

Ron Paul

Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty.

Sam Kinison

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Sacha Guitry

There are women whose infidelities are the only link they still have with their husbands.

Sacha Guitry

An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.

Susan Faludi

Having whipped single women into high marital panic-or "nuptialitis," as one columnist called it- the press hastened to soothe fretted brows with conjugal tonic.

Susan Faludi

To be unwed and female was to succumb to an illness with only one known cure: marriage.

Stevie Smith

I'm sorry to say my dear wife is a dreamer, and as she dreams she gets paler and leaner. Then be off to your Dream, with his fly-away hat, I stay with the girls who are happy and fat.

Stephen Sondheim

The concerts you enjoy together/ Neighbors you annoy together/ Children you destroy together,/ That keep marriage in tact.

St. Jerome

I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.

Tim McGraw

I don't know where I'd be without you here with me. Life with you makes perfect sense. You're my best friend.

Tim Allen

There is no greater feeling than when a groom turns to see his bride and has tears in his eyes because she is so beautiful.

Thomas Szasz

Marriages are said to be made in Heaven, which may be why they don't work here on Earth.

Robert Boyle

He that said it was not good for man to be alone, placed the celibate amongst the inferior states of perfection.

Sam Ewing

In many instances, marriage vows would be more accurate if the phrase were changed to 'Until debt do us part'.

Stephenie Meyer

No measure of time with you will be long enough, but we'll start with forever.

Stephen Covey

Want to improve your relationships? See love as a verb rather than as a feeling?

Sophocles

No greater evil can a man endure Than a bad wife, nor find a greater good Than one both good and wise; and each man speaks As judging by the experience of his life.

Stanley Kunitz

In every house of marriage there's room for an interpreter.

Soren Kierkegaard

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Sylvia Plath

This seemed a dreary and wasted life for a girl with fifteen years of straight A's, but I knew that's what marriage was like, because cook and clean and wash was just what Buddy Willard's mother did from morning till night, and she was the wife of a university professor and had been a private school teacher herself.

Swami Vivekananda

What is marriage but the renunciation of unchastity? The savage does not marry. Man marries because he renounces.

Swami Vivekananda

This doctrine of prenatal influence is now slowly being recognized, and science as well as religion calls out: 'Keep yourself holy, and pure.' So deeply has this been recognized in India, that there we even speak of adultery in marriage, except when marriage is consummated in prayer.

Swami Vivekananda

The natural ambition of woman is through marriage to climb up, leaning upon a man; but those days are gone. You shall be great without the help of any man, just as you are.

Swami Vivekananda

Marriage or non-marriage, good or evil, learning or ignorance, any of these is justified, if it leads to the goal.