Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Joe Murray

Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps.

Jodi Picoult

A sacrament--like marriage--means living a life better than your natural instincts, so that you're modeling God. And God never gives up.

Carolyn Heilbrun

Why do long marriages occasionally endow their inhabitants with a rare kind of equilibrium otherwise almost unknown in human relations? My guess is that the value of the moment has at last overshadowed the long history of resentments, betrayals, and boredom.

Carolyn Heilbrun

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

Carolyn Heilbrun

a revolutionary marriage ... [is] one in which both partners have work at the center of their lives and must find a delicate balance that can support both together and each individually.

Carolyn Heilbrun

The compulsion to find a lover and husband in a single person has doomed more women to misery than any other illusion.

Carolyn Heilbrun

The sign of a good marriage is that everything is debatable and challenged; nothing is turned into law or policy. The rules, if any, are known only to the two players, who seek no public trophies.

Kajol

There are times when marriage is not such a comfortable place... But you find your way; you become a different person. You grow into it. And you have to work at marriage every day.

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.

Kim Wilde

My parents have a wonderful marriage, for many years. But I can't commit myself for such a long time.

Kathie Lee Gifford

when you fall in love, you must fall in love with a man the way he is now, because marriage won't change anything, except maybe your tax deduction.

Julia Child

We had a happy marriage because we were together all the time. We were friends as well as husband and wife. We just had a good time.

Julia Child

You are the butter to my bread,and the breath to my life

P. G. Wodehouse

Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse.

Ovid

If thou wouldst marry wisely, marry thine equal.

Ovid

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Paul Newman

Our marriage works because we each carry clubs of equal weight and size.

Paul Newman

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

Maryon Pearson

I married him for better or worse. I didn't marry him for lunch.

Maryon Pearson

Behind every great man there is a surprised woman.

Mary Wollstonecraft

... to improve both sexes they ought, not only in private families, but in public schools, to be educated together. If marriage be the cement of society, mankind should all be educated after the same model, or the intercourse of the sexes will never deserve the name of fellowship ...

Mary Wollstonecraft

When a man seduces a woman, it should, I think, be termed a left-handed marriage.

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.

Joseph Joubert

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.

King Edward VIII

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

Moliere

Better to be married than dead!