Famous Quotes & Sayings

Socrates

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent

John Milton

Let us no more contend, nor blame each other, blamed enough elsewhere, but strive, In offices of love, how we may lighten each other's burden.

John Milton

Nothing lovelier can be found In woman, than to study household good, And good works in her husband to promote.

Noel Coward

Marriage is the aftermath of love.

John Steinbeck

American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.

John Steinbeck

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

Marie Dressler

I have had a couple of marriages, but like every other woman I had a perfect right to them.

Ted Olson

Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?

Theodore Parker

Marriages are best made of dissimilar material.

Theodore Parker

A happy wedlock is a long falling in love.

Theodor Reik

In our civilization men are afraid they will not be man enough, and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.

Margaret Mead

No matter how free divorce, how frequently marriages break up, in most societies there is the assumption of permanent mating, of the idea that the marriage should last as long as both live. . . . No known society has ever invented a form of marriage strong enough to stick that did not contain the 'till death us do part' assumption.

Margaret Mead

The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilization on males and females alike must be resolved, a pattern within which men must learn, in return for a variety of elaborate rewards, new forms in which sexual spontaneity is still possible, and women must learn to discipline their receptivity to a thousand other considerations.

King Vidor

Take it from me, marriage isn't a word - it's a sentence.

Kin Hubbard

Women seem to be all right on bargains till it comes to picking out a husband.

Michael Bergin

I wanted to marry a girl just like my mom.

Max Miller

My wife is so stupendously ugly it is easier to take her with me than to kiss her goodbye.

Max Lucado

Love like there's no tomorrow, and if tomorrow comes, love again.

Max Frisch

The point is to show who is the cross and who the crucified.

Max Frisch

Our comparative fidelity was fear of defeat at the hands of another partner.

Meg Ryan

It was not a healthy marriage for long time. It was never about another man, it was about what my and Dennis's relationship could not sustain.

Maxine Hong Kingston

Daughters-in-law lived with their husbands' parents, not their own; a synonym for marriage in Chinese is "taking a daughter-in-law.

Max Schmeling

I had a happy marriage and a nice wife. I accomplished everything you can. What more can you want?

Mary Webb

To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Mary Wesley

Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what's going on in another person's marriage.

Plautus

What is yours is mine, and all mine is yours.

Philip Larkin

He married a woman to stop her getting away Now she's there all day.

Lisa Marie Presley

I'm not eager to jump into marriage again. I'm in the corner right now, wearing my dunce cap. That area is obviously a nightmare.

John Updike

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

John Sununu

Defining marriage is a power that should be left to the states. Moreover, no state should be forced to recognize a marriage that is not within its own laws, Constitution, and legal precedents.

John Stuart Mill

Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house.

John Selden

Of all the actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all the actions of our lives, 'tis the most meddled with by other people.

John O'Hara

In every marriage the wife has to keep her mouth shut about at least one small thing her husband does that disgusts her.