Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Scalzi

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Piper

Husbands and wives, recognize that in marriage you have become one flesh. If you live for your private pleasure at the expense of your spouse, you are living against yourself and destroying your joy. But if you devote yourself with all your heart to the holy joy of your spouse, you will also be living for your joy and making a marriage after the image of Christ and His church.

Peter De Vries

... it is a fact universally acknowledged that a husband is the most ridiculous thing on earth, except for a bachelor.

Peter De Vries

I suppose I shall marry eventually One does that, one drifts into stability

Marlene Dietrich

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.

Marianne Moore

Men are monopolists of "stars, garters, buttons and other shining baubles"- unfit to be the guardians of another person's happiness.

Nicolas Chamfort

Were a man to consult only his reason, who would marry? For myself, I wouldn't marry, for fear of having a son who resembled me.

Nicolas Chamfort

Marriage, as practised by high society, is arranged indecency.

Nora Ephron

Every so often I would look at my women friends who were happily married and didn't cook, and I would always find myself wondering how they did it. Would anyone love me if I couldn't cook? I always thought cooking was part of the package: Step right up, it's Rachel Samstat, she's bright, she's funny and she can cook!

Nora Roberts

Marriage is a land mine. A really intimate land mine. Adultery to kitchen fires. Never a dull [moment].

Mignon McLaughlin

After the chills and fever of love, how nice is the 98.6 degrees of marriage.

Mignon McLaughlin

What's for dinner is the only question many husbands ask their wives, and the only one to which they care about the answer.

Mignon McLaughlin

Many marriages are simply working partnerships between businessmen and housekeepers.

Mignon McLaughlin

Some marriages break up, and some do not, and in our world you can usually explain the former better than the latter.

Mignon McLaughlin

A love that lasts for twenty years may be better than love, but it isn't love.

Mignon McLaughlin

Affairs are just as disillusioning as marriage, and much less restful.

Mignon McLaughlin

The marriage of convenience has this to recommend it: we are better judges of convenience than we are of love.

Mignon McLaughlin

Pity all newlyweds. She cooks something nice for him, and he brings her flowers, and they kiss and think: How easy marriage is.

John Wilmot

Mothers who force their daughters into interested marriage, are worse than the Ammonites who sacrificed their children to Moloch--the latter undergoing a speedy death, the former suffering years of torture, but too frequently leading to the same result.

John Wilmot

The clog of all pleasure, the luggage of life, is the best can be said for a very good wife.

Marianne Williamson

A relationship is not meant to be the joining at the hip of two emotional invalids. The purpose of a relationship is not for two incomplete people to become one, but rather, for two complete people to join together for the greater glory of God.

Mario Cuomo

I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week.

Mae West

It's easy to get married, but hard to stay that way.

Mae West

He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.

Mae West

Some women pick men to marry--and others pick them to pieces.

Merle Shain

Marriage is supposed to do everything, like Duz, which is more than half its problem. It is said to save us, define us, give us purpose, keep us from loneliness, and incidentally balance our diet and wash our socks, and when it doesn't, we get divorced.

Merle Shain

We marry to grow up, to escape our parents and to inherit our share of the world, not knowing who we are and who we will become, so it is left to marriage to make it clear which ones of us are growing in the same directions and which are ships meant to have passed in the night.

Merle Shain

I'm not sure there can be loving without commitment, although commitment takes all kinds of forms, and there can be commitment for the moment as well as commitment for all time. The kind that is essential for loving marriages - and love affairs, as well - is a commitment to preserving the essential quality of your partner's soul, adding to them as a person rather than taking away.

Mason Cooley

Antagonistic cooperation is the principle of all markets and many marriages.

Mason Cooley

The squabbles of philandering Zeus and shrewish Hera are the Greeks' comment on married life.

Mason Cooley

Some marriages depend on domestic arguments the way the courts depend on litigation.

Mary Archer

I think we explored the further reaches of 'for better or for worse' than some other married couples.

Mary Augusta Ward

It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership.