Famous Quotes & Sayings

Spike Milligan

It was a perfect marriage. She didn't want to and he couldn't.

Ben Carson

My thoughts are that marriage is between a man and a woman.

Alexander Woollcott

It was Mrs. Campbell, for instance, who, on a celebrated occasion, threw her companion into a flurry by describing her recent marriage as "the deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-longue."

William Shakespeare

Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee, And for thy maintenance commits his body To painful labour both by sea and land, To watch the night in storms, the day in cold, Whilst thou liest warm at home, secure and safe; And craves no other tribute at thy hands But love, fair looks and true obedience; Too little payment for so great a debt.

William Shakespeare

When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

William Shakespeare

Love comforteth like sunshine after rain. Doubt thou the stars are fire; doubt that the sun doth move; doubt truth to be a liar; but never doubt I love you. I love thee, I love but thee with a love that shall not die. Till the sun grows cold and the stars grow old.

Helen Gahagan

When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place.

Richie Sambora

A band is like a marriage, and if you're in a marriage with someone, and you lose yourself in that marriage, the relationship is over, really.

Sarah Parish

Marriage is hard, and it can be tough when you're both actors.

Aeschylus

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

The best by far is to marry in one's own rank.

Aeschylus

For the marriage bed ordained by fate for men and women is stronger than an oath and guarded by Justice.

Aeschylus

Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.

Sherwin B. Nuland

I was, in the 1960s, in a marriage. To use the word 'bad' would be perhaps the understatement of the year. It was dreadful.

Raymond Carver

I think marriage is one of those things that writers draw on, one of those emotional reservoirs that go way back.

David Letterman

Honey, what happened to "ladies first"? Husband replies, "That's the reason why the worlds a mess today, because a lady went first!"

David Blankenhorn

Even with all its problems, I will support marriage as an institution until something better comes along.

Dave Willis

Real love is when you are completely committed to someone even when they are being completely unlovable.

David O. McKay

In choosing a companion, it is necessary to study the disposition, the inheritance, and training of the one with whom you are contemplating making life’s journey.

David O. McKay

The seeds of a happy marriage are sown in youth. Happiness does not begin at the altar; it begins during the period of youth and courtship.

David O. McKay

President David O. McKay (1873-1970) observed that too many couples come to "marriage looking upon the marriage ceremony as the end of courtship instead of the beginning of an eternal courtship. ... Love can be starved to death as literally as the body that receives no sustenance. Love feeds upon kindness and courtesy"

Condoleezza Rice

I've always said that I expected to grow up and get married like any nice southern girl, but the fact is you don't get married in the abstract. You find someone that you'd like to be married to.

Cokie Roberts

There is such pleasure in long-term marriage that I really would hate to be my age and not have had a long-term marriage. Remember, sustaining a pleasurable, long-term marriage takes effort, deliberateness and an intention to learn about one another. In other words, marriage is for grown-ups.

Billy Graham

Ruth and I are happily incompatible.

Billy Graham

The Bible is clear - God's definition of marriage is between a man and a woman.

Billy Graham

When asked his secret of love, being married fifty-four years to the same person, he said, "Ruth and I are happily incompatible."

Meryl Streep

I once read that in any good marriage, one partner is the gardener and the other is the garden. We take it in turns to be either.

Gabrielle Union

In Hollywood, marriages are kind of expected to fail.

Daphne du Maurier

how lacking in intuition men could be in persuading themselves that mending some stranger's socks, and attending to his comfort, could content a woman...

Cyril Connolly

Most of the beauty of women evaporates when they achieve domestic happiness at the price of their independence.

Cyril Connolly

Marriage is the permanent conversation between two people who talk over everything and everyone until death breaks the record.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

As the family goes, so go the children.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

The principal objective of American government at every level should be to see that children are born into intact families and that they remain so.