Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mary Augusta Ward

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

Mary Astell

But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?

Menander

There is no such cozy combination as man and wife.

Patsy Kensit

On her marriage breakup with Liam: I can honestly say that life is fantastic now. I'm so happy that all the mess I used to have to deal with is not my mess anymore.

Oscar Wilde

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Oscar Wilde

They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.

Oscar Wilde

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Oscar Wilde

Marriage is hardly a thing one can do now and then, except in America.

Oscar Wilde

Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.

Oscar Wilde

Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public building.

Oscar Wilde

The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him.

Mae West

I have never been able to sleep with anyone. I require a full-size bed so that I can lie in the middle of it and extend my arms spreadeagle on both sides without being obstructed.

Mae West

Marriage is like a book. The whole story takes place between the covers.

Mae West

Men are my hobby, if I ever got married I'd have to give it up.

Mae West

Getting married is like trading in the adoration of many for the sarcasm of one.

Margaret Sanger

A mutual and satisfied sexual act is of great benefit to the average woman, the magnetism of it is health giving. When it is not desired on the part of the woman and she has no response, it should not take place. This is an act of prostitution and is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding.

Michel de Montaigne

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

Michel de Montaigne

Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.

Michel de Montaigne

Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want then when you see what the other person has, you wish you had ordered that.

Michel de Montaigne

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Michel de Montaigne

[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

Michel de Montaigne

When a Roman was returning from a trip, he used to send someone ahead to let his wife know, so as not to surprise her in the act.

Michel de Montaigne

We do not marry for ourselves, whatever we say; we marry just as much or more for our posterity, for our family. The practice and benefit of marriage concerns our race very far beyond us.

Michael Novak

Marriage, the family unit, was the "original Department of Health, Education and Welfare."

Mark Twain

If husbands could realize what large returns of profit may be gotten out of a wife by a small word of praise paid over the counter when the market is just right, they would bring matters around the way they wish them much oftener than they usually do. Arguments are unsafe with wives, because they examine them; but they do not examine compliments. One can pass upon a wife a compliment that is three-fourths base

Loni Anderson

I don't think you ever go into a marriage to fail.

Bill Cosby

For two people in a marriage to live together day after day is unquestionably the one miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

If it were permitted to be accomplished through a second marriage, that would have been the medium,

If this is a threat to your marriage, you got a problem. If the institution of marriage is in trouble today, it is because of heterosexual people.

Sex outside marriage is sin; sex within marriage is not sin.

Olympism is the marriage of sport and culture.

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Brad Pitt

I have always been somebody that really wants to be married. And I don't know if that's just so I can do it differently than my parents did and prove marriage does work.