Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anne Sexton

My husband sings Baa Baa black sheep and we pretend that all's certain and good, that the marriage won't end.

Anne Sexton

I am tearing the feathers out of the pillows, waiting, waiting for Daddy to come home and stuff me so full of our infected child that I turn invisible, but married, at last.

Anna Howard Shaw

I care nothing for all the political parties in the world except as they stand for justice.

Anna Held

A woman must make her fortune before she is 30; or work after she is 30; or get married.

Andre Maurois

Marriage is not something that can be accomplished all at once; it has to be constantly reaccomplished. A couple must never indulge in idle tranquility with the remark: "The game is won; let's relax." The game is never won. The chances of life are such that anything is possible. Remember what the dangers are for both sexes in middle age. A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Ambrose Bierce

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Ambrose Bierce

A bad marriage is like an electrical thrilling machine: it makes you dance, but you can't let go.

Alice Sebold

Every day a question mark.

Anne Meara

Was it love at first sight? It wasn't then - but it sure is now.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The web of marriage is made by propinquity, in the day to day living side by side, looking outward in the same direction. It is woven in space and in time of the substance of life itself.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts.

Alexander Payne

Marketing has supplanted story as the primary force behind the worthiness of making a film, and that's a very sad thing. It's film only as a function of consumerism rather than as an important component of our culture, and that's everywhere around the world.

Alexander McQueen

I am married to work.

Alexander Pope

Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.

Drew Carey

The Marines was a fresh start - that is why they shave your head. I wish they would let you change your name.

Drew Carey

Oh, and once, when I was in the Marines, I got a perfect score on my physical fitness test.

Drew Barrymore

Both of my marriages have taught me the same lesson twice over really harsh: listen to your instincts. Don't be a people pleaser.

Donald Trump

You had to see him [Marco Rubio] backstage. He was putting on make up with a trowel.

Donald Trump

We will build a Marine Corps based on 36 battalions, which the Heritage Foundation notes is the minimum needed to deal with major contingencies. Right now we only have 23.

Donald Trump

Not only the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, the Marines, everything is going away at a time when certainly we are at a top priority for making sure that doesn't happen. We're not respected to the extent that we were. And if we keep going like this, we won't be respected at all.

Donald Trump

If I lost everything and had to start again, I would find myself a great network marketing company and get to work!

Dorothy L. Sayers

A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity.

Dora Russell

Marriage laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.

Colley Cibber

Oh! How many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring.

Diogenes

Young men not ought to marry yet, and old men never ought to marry at all.

Dick Martin

I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.

Dick Gregory

Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.

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"