Famous Quotes & Sayings

Phyllis McGinley

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Phyllis McGinley

Marriage is a lot of things-an alliance, a sacrament, a comedy, or a mistake; but it is definitely not a partnership because that implies equal gain. And every right-thinking woman knows the profit in matrimony is by all odds hers.

Phyllis McGinley

In a successful marriage, there is no such thing as one's way. There is only the way of both, only the bumpy, dusty, difficult, but always mutual path.

Phyllis Diller

The only thing my husband and I have in common is that we were married on the same day.

Kent Nerburn

This is not to say that becoming a father automatically makes you a good father. Fatherhood, like marriage, is a constant struggle against your limitations and self-interests. But the urge to be a perfect father is there, because your child is a perfect gift.

Kelly Preston

I have a wonderful marriage and two great kids.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Marriage (in what is called the spiritual world) is impossible, because of the inequality between every subject and every object.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The plays of children are nonsense, but very educative nonsense. So it is with the largest and solemnest things, with commerce, government, church, marriage, and so with the history of every man's bread, and the ways by which he is to come by it.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Constancy has nothing virtuous in itself, independently of the pleasure it confers, and partakes of the temporizing spirit of vice in proportion as it endures tamely moral defects of magnitude in the object of its indiscreet choice.

Elvis Presley

Love me tender, love me sweet, never let me go.

Logan Pearsall Smith

It is a matter of life and death for married people to interrupt each others stories; for it they did not, they would burst.

John Dos Passos

I never understood exactly why people get engaged--The only time I ever did the most disastrous things happened--but I feel that there's a great deal to be said for immediate matrimony always. If I once got started I'd probably have to become a mormon to cover my confusion. What I mean is that if he and she are crazy about each other it is sheer tempting God to stay apart, come what may. And if people arent crazy about each other being engaged wont help them.

Henry Ward Beecher

Well-married, a man is winged: ill-matched, he is shackled.

There was no right to same-sex marriage before Measure 36, and there is no right to same-sex marriage after Measure 36,

It's a piece of paper, but it's a piece of paper that has meaning and value, just like a marriage certificate,

Nuno Bettencourt

A band is like a marriage - you don't know why it works, but when it does, everything feels right.

David McCullough

My wife, the star I steer by.

David Brooks

Marital happiness is far more important than anything else in determining personal well-being.

Denis Thatcher

(When asked who wore the pants in his house:) I do, and I also wash and iron them.

Bill Moyers

In marriage, everyday you love,and everyday you forgive.It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgiveness

Agnes Macphail

I suggest that there is a splendid way out of the difficulty of marriage, and that is my way - stay out.

Charles Lamb

Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new married couple; in that of the lady particularly; it tells you that her lot is disposed of in this world; that you can have no hopes for her.

William Shakespeare

I have thrust myself into this maze, Haply to wive and thrive as best I may.

William Shakespeare

Hasty marriage seldom proveth well.

William Shakespeare

With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage.

Cary Grant

When I'm married I want to be single, and when I'm single I want to be married.

Dennis Miller

After 7 years of marriage, I am sure of 2 things: First, never wallpaper together and second, you'll need 2 bathrooms . . . both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Edna Ferber

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded. Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt.

Benjamin Franklin

If you want to be loved, love and be loveable.

Ben Affleck

There are two things for a marriage to be good. One is to work hard on it. The other one is to marry above you. And I succeeded at both of those.

William Shakespeare

Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure.

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.