Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alyssa Milano

I'm not getting married, ... Our relationship is so new we don't even really know what it is yet.

Milan Kundera

Biographers know nothing about the intimate sex lives of their own wives, but they think they know all about Stendhal's or Faulkner's.

Joseph Addison

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

Joseph Addison

Good Nature, and Evenness of Temper, will give you an easie Companion for Life; Vertue and good Sense, an agreeable Friend; Love and Constancy, a good Wife or Husband. Where we meet one Person with all these Accomplishments, we find an Hundred without any one of them.

Jose Saramago

No, there are three people in a marriage, there's the woman, there's the man, and there's what I call the third person, the most important, the person who is composed of the man and woman together.

Henry B. Eyring

Our Heavenly Father wants our hearts to be knit together. That union in love is not simply an ideal. It is a necessity

Henry Adams

Probably the institution of marriage had its origin in love of property. Both men and women were united in this--that whatever they loved best, they wished to possess. The usual theory holds that the communal system would not permit the gratification of this desire at the expense of communal rights, and that therefore men were driven to gratify their passion by purchasing or by capturing women from neighboring and hostile tribes.

Henry Adams

Every one who marries goes it blind, more or less.

A husband is a man who two minutes after his head touches the pillow is snoring like an overloaded omnibus.

Olive Schreiner

A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

O. Henry

If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.

Ellen Key

A great poet has seldom sung of lawfully wedded happiness, but of free and secret love; and in this respect, too the time is coming when there will no longer be one standard of morality for poetry and another for life. To anyone tender of conscience, the ties formed by a free connection are stronger than the legal ones.

It's been an interesting 35 years. I mean, this is a marriage, and it's the most successful one I've ever had.

Chris Stapleton

It's such a strange marriage, a song and someone that sings it. When that works, it really works, and when it doesn't, it doesn't.

Nell Carter

I've had diseases that lasted longer than my marriages. You know you are in a bad marriage if you walk down the aisle thinking, 'Is this dress right?

Mike Myers

Marriage can be viewed as the waiting room for death.

Joey Ramone

Marriage is worse than dying. Why stay with one person for fifty years? We advise against marriage.

Carolyn Heilbrun

Only a marriage with partners strong enough to risk divorce is strong enough to avoid it.

Eva Gabor

Marriage is too interesting an experiment to be tried only once.

Muriel Rukeyser

My lifetime listens to yours.

Mike Rounds

Marriage is one of the most sacred human institutions. I asked our Senators, as many South Dakotans have done, to protect marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

Ovid

If thou wouldst marry wisely, marry thine equal.

Paul Newman

People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.

Maryon Pearson

Behind every great man there is a surprised woman.

Pat Conroy

Each divorce is the death of a small civilization.

Julia Quinn

My mother is convinced that yellow is a happy color and that a happy girl would get a husband. -Penelope Featherington

Joseph Joubert

One should choose for a wife only such a woman as he would choose for a friend, were she a man.

King Edward VIII

When you're bored with yourself, marry and be bored with someone else.

Moliere

A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman's ailments.

Milton Berle

My wife and I have a perfect understanding. I don't try to run her life, and I don't try to run mine.

Milton Berle

Marriage is one of the few institutions that allow a man to do as his wife pleases.

Nancy Mitford

Always remember, children, that marriage is a very intimate relationship. It's not just sitting and chatting to a person; there are other things, you know.

Keith Richards

I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage.