Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roxane Gay

My parents have been married for 42 years. Their marriage has been - from what I can see - a happy one.

Jonathan Evison

My parents divorced after 25 years of marriage.

Bill Cosby

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle that the Vatican has overlooked.

Bill Cosby

The game of chess. Supposedly men made it up, and it's about war and men and the ravages and the bravery and the genius of commanding and moving pieces and ... No. It's marriage. The Queen moves anywhere she wants.

C. S. Lewis

We feasted on love; every mode of it, solemn and merry, romantic and realistic, sometimes as dramatic as a thunderstorm, sometimes comfortable and unemphatic as putting on your soft slippers. She was my pupil and my teacher, my subject and my sovereign, my trusty comrade, friends, shipmate, fellow-soldier. My mistress, but at the same time all that any man friend has ever been to me.

C. S. Lewis

I am in love and out of it I will not go.

C. S. Lewis

The most precious gift that marriage gave me was the constant impact of something very close and intimate, yet all the time unmistakably other, resistant - in a word, real.

Bette Davis

The secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.

Anthony Storr

A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Anthony Storr

If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.

Bertrand Russell

A marriage is likely to be called happy if neither party ever expected to get much happiness out of it.

Bertrand Russell

Many a marriage hardly differs from prostitution, except being harder to escape from.

I was married for 20 years, and now I'm nervous,

Nicole Richie

I would never put my own personal marriage on television,

Lisa Hoffman

Marriage is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important

Marriage is like a phonograph record. You get what you like on one side and take what you get on the other.

Miranda Lambert

Marriage is gonna be your stability through everything.

Jojo Moyes

Marriage is a decades-long experiment, conducted mostly in private; a test of will in the face of unexpected obstacles.

Marriage is a big deal. We're not ready to settle down.

Helen Rowland

Marriage is a bargain, and somebody has to get the worst of the bargain.

Publilius Syrus

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Jean de la Bruyere

There are few wives so perfect as not to give their husbands at least once a day good reason to repent of ever having married, or at least of envying those who are unmarried.

Jay Leno

First there's the promise ring, then the engagement ring, then the wedding ring... soon after... comes Suffer...ring!

James Dobson

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

James Dobson

Marriage succeeds only as lifetime commitment with no escape clauses.

James E. Faust

Happiness in marriage and parenthood can exceed a thousand times any other happiness

Euripides

It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.

Esther Williams

Marriage to Fernando offered shelter and security, but the shackle was the price I'd pay.

Gareth Gates

I've had lots of offers of marriage and from women wanting to have my kids.

Fulton J. Sheen

Many married women who have deliberately spurned the "hour" of childbearing are unhappy and frustrated. They never discovered the joys of marriage because they refused to surrender to the obligation of their state. In saving themselves, they lost themselves!

Francois Rabelais

When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.

Germaine Greer

A woman is never so happy as when she is being wooed. Then she is mistress of all she surveys, the cynosure of all eyes, until that day of days when she sails down the aisle, a vision in white, lovely as the stefanotis she carries, borne translucent on her father's manly arm to be handed over to her new father-surrogate. If she is clever, and if her husband has the time and the resources, she will insist on being wooed all her life; more likely she will discover that marriage is not romantic, that husbands forget birthdays and aniversaries and seldom pay compliments, are often perfunctory.

Germaine Greer

Marriage cannot be a job as it has become.