Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Santayana

It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.

George Meredith

Heiresses are never jilted.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

... you can never be sure of what has passed between husband and wife or lover and mistress.

Gene Simmons

The only thing wrong with marriage is that one of the persons involved is a man.

George Eliot

A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.

Henny Youngman

She's been married so many times she has rice marks on her face.

Henny Youngman

We always hold hands. If I let go, she shops.

Henri Frederic Amiel

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

George Eliot

When I married Humphrey I made up my mind to like sermons, and I set out by liking the end very much. That soon spread to the middle and the beginning, because I couldn't have the end without them.

George Eliot

Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and the sea is not within sight; that in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin.

George Eliot

I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.

Geoffrey Chaucer

One shouldn't be too inquisitive in life Either about God's secrets or one's wife.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Frank Pittman

Marriage isn't supposed to make you happy - it's supposed to make you married.

Frank Pittman

For most people, a life lived alone, with passing strangers or passing lovers, is incoherent and ultimately unbearable. Someone must be there to know what we have done for those we love.

Frank Pittman

Marriage, like a submarine, is only safe if you get all the way inside.

Frank Pittman

Fidelity is the single most important element in solidly enduring marriages.

Frank Pittman

The more things we can laugh about, the more alive we become: The more things we can laugh about together, the more connected we become.

Frank Pittman

Love is not something people feel, but something people try to express no matter how they feel.

Frank Pittman

Bad marriages don't cause infidelity; infidelity causes bad marriages.

Frank Pittman

Infidelity flows from a belief that women have the power to make you feel like a man if you only find a woman that thinks you're perfect; if you can only find a woman that you haven't hurt or disappointed yet.

Frank Pittman

It is necessary but insufficient to stay married for the children's sake. It is also necessary to stay happily married for the children's sake. I'm so glad someone noticed that marriage doesn't have to make you miserable. It is just so easy to be happy I don't understand why it isn't more popular.

Frank Pittman

. . . in the end, there is nothing a man can do that a woman can't, except be a father.

George Jean Nathan

Marriage is based on the theory that when a man discovers a brand of beer exactly to his taste, he should at once throw up his job and go to work inthe brewery.

J. B. Priestley

Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.

Friedrich Nietzsche

If married couples did not live together, happy marriages would be more frequent.

Friedrich Nietzsche

At the beginning of a marriage ask yourself whether this woman will be interesting to talk to from now until old age. Everything else in marriage is transitory: most of the time is spent in conversation.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Even cohabitation has been corrupted - by marriage.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Marriage was contrived for ordinary people, for people who are capable of neither great love nor great friendship, which is to say, for most people--but also for those exceptionally rare ones who are capable of love as well as of friendship.

Franz Grillparzer

The prince exults whomever he selects as his consort, but the queen, rather than elevating the subject of her choice, humiliates him as a man. By all that is right, a man is not intended to be the husband of his wife, but a woman is to be her husband's wife.

Franz Grillparzer

Woman is the crown of all creation, but Man is the head who wears it, and even the servant is master in his house.

Jeanette Winterson

Marriage is the flimsiest weapon against desire. You may as well take a pop-gun to a python.

Georges Duhamel

The man who has entered into a beautiful union is sure of at least one person to whom he can give the best that he possesses.