Famous Quotes & Sayings

Moliere

Two wives? That exceeds the custom.

Moliere

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

Moliere

Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate's affection.

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.

Mark Twain

What a world of trouble those who never marry escape! There are many happy matches, it is true, and sometimes "my dear," and "my love" come from the heart; but what sensible bachelor, rejoicing in his freedom and years of discretion, will run the tremendous risk?

Mark Twain

God's great cosmic joke on the human race was requiring that men and women live together in marriage

Mark Twain

Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.

Mark Twain

Men and women -- even man and wife are foreigners. Each has reserves that the other cannot enter into, nor understand. These have the effect of frontiers.

Mark Twain

Marriage -- yes, it is the supreme felicity of life. I concede it. And it is also the supreme tragedy of life. The deeper the love the surer the tragedy. And the more disconsolating when it comes.

The woman who does her job for society inside the four walls of her home must not be considered by her husband or anyone else an economic "dependent," reaching out her hands in mendicant fashion for financial help.

The economic dependence of woman and her apparently indestructible illusion that marriage will release her from loneliness and work and worry are potent factors in immunizing her from common sense in dealing with men at work.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

When thou choosest a wife, think not only of thyself, but of those God may give thee of her, that they reproach thee not for their being.

Marilyn Monroe

If marriage were only bed, we could have made it.

Mary MacLane

When a man and a woman love one another that is enough. That is marriage. A religious rite is superfluous. And if the man and woman live together without the love, no ceremony in the world can make it a marriage.

Nicholas Sparks

Each recognized the fact that real commitment could be proven only through the passage of time.

Nicholas Sparks

A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, in the expectation that the other will do the same.

Nicholas Sparks

Before we met, I was as lost as a person could be and yet you saw something in me that somehow gave me direction again.

Marilyn Monroe

A career is a wonderful thing, but you can't snuggle up to it at night.

Margot Asquith

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Mitt Romney

I feel very deeply about the need to respect and tolerate people of different social - or sexual orientation. But at the same time, I believe marriage should be preserved as an institution for one man and one woman.

Mitt Romney

Like me, the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians.

Leonardo da Vinci

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

Oscar Wilde

The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.

Oscar Wilde

Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.

Lillian Russell

So many pleasing episodes of one's life are spoiled by shouting. You never heard of an unhappy marriage unless the neighbors have heard it first.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

No labourer in the world is expected to work for room, board, and love -except the housewife.

Leah Ward Sears

A mother is a mother all of your life,but a father is a father only when he has a wife.

LeAnn Rimes

A good friend just told me that the key to a successful marriage was to argue naked! I'm gonna do that from now on, when that rarely happens.

Laurence Housman

If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.

Lakshmi Mittal

At the end of the day you have to keep emotions away.