Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

I have a deep-seated belief that marriage is between a man and a woman exclusively.

Jim Harrison

Marriage is survived just on the basis of ordinary etiquette, day in and day out. Also cooking together helps a lot.

Jim Backus

Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.

Jill Bennett

Never marry a man who hates his mother because he'll end up hating you.

Jill McCorkle

I think that marriage vows should include an escape clause that says the contract is broken if one party ups and makes a big switch in religion or politics or aesthetic taste. I mean, these shifts just aren't fair, and we need an easier way out.

Jean Giraudoux

A wife loves out of duty, and duty leads to constraint, and constraint kills desire.

Jean Giraudoux

An agreement is never reached in love. The life of a wife and husband who love each other is never at rest. Whether the marriage is true or false, the marriage portion is the same: elemental discord.

Jackie Mason

Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.

Gary Becker

Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work?

Hillary Clinton

You know, we've been married for 22 years ... and I have learned a long time ago that the only people who count in any marriage are the two that are in it.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

He felt married to her, that was all.

Eugene Delacroix

A wife of your own stature is the greatest of all blessings.

Erma Bombeck

It would have been a wonderful wedding - had it not been mine.

Florynce Kennedy

prostitutes don't sell their bodies, they rent their bodies. Housewives sell their bodies when they get married ...

Florence King

The American woman's concept of marriage is a clearly etched picture of something uninflated on the floor. A sleeping-bag withoutair, a beanbag without beans, a padded bra without pads. To work on it, you start pumping--what the magazines call "breathing life into your marriage." Do enough of this and the marriage becomes a kind of Banquo's ghost, a quasi-living entity.

Fay Weldon

Ask any woman in an arranged marriage. Love is the least stressful way out.

Fanny Kemble

When marriage is what it ought to be, it is indeed the very happiest condition of existence.

Fannie Hurst

A woman is not a whole woman without the experience of marriage. In the case of a bad marriage, you win if you lose. Of the two alternatives - bad marriage or none - I believe bad marriage would be better. It is a bitter experience and a high price to pay for fulfillment, but it is the better alternative.

Ezra Pound

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Ezra Taft Benson

Fidelity to one's marriage vows is absolutely essential for love, trust and peace

Ezra Taft Benson

The secret of a happy marriage is to serve God and each other.

Ezra Taft Benson

If we would truly seek to be more like our Savior and Master, learning to love as He loves should be our highest goal

Euripides

A rare spoil for a man Is the winning of a good wife; very Plentiful are the worthless women.

Francis Bacon

A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.

Francis Bacon

Spouses are great impediments to great enterprises.

Francis Bacon

He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.

Francis Bacon

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

George Washington

A woman ... all beautiful and accomplished will, while her hand and heart are undisposed of, turn the heads and set the circle in which she moves on fire. Let her marry, and what is the consequence? The madness ceases and all is quiet again. Why? Not because there is any diminution in the charms of the lady, but because there is an end of hope.

George Washington

I never did, nor do I believe I ever shall, give advice to a woman who is setting out on a matrimonial voyage; first, because I never could advise one to marry without her own consent; and, secondly, I know it is to no purpose to advise her to refrain when she has obtained it. A woman very rarely asks an opinion or requires advice on such an occasion, till her resolution is formed; and then it is with the hope and expectation of obtaining a sanction, not that she means to be governed by your disapprobation, that she applies.

George Washington

I have always considered marriage as the most interesting event of one's life, the foundation of happiness or misery.