Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anne Stevenson

I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy.

Anne Tyler

I suspect that marriage is like parenthood: every last one of us is an amateur at it ...

Anna May Wong

I've come to the conclusion that everybody should marry, including me.

Anna Magnani

A divorcee is a women who got married so she didn't have to work, but now works so she doesn't have to get married.

Amy Grant

The more time you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes.

Anne Sexton

Some women marry houses. It's another kind of skin; it has a heart, a mouth, a liver and bowel movements.

Anne Sexton

And thus Snow White became the prince's bride. The wicked queen was invited to the wedding feast and when she arrived there were red-hot iron shoes, in the manner of red-hot roller skates, clamped upon her feet.

Anne Sexton

you see, we live in a cold climate and are not permitted to kiss on the street so I made up a song that wasn't true. I made up a song called Marriage.

Anne Sexton

the marriage twists, holds firm, a sailor's knot.

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.

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.

Alphonsus Liguori

A true servant of Mary cannot be lost.

Anna Nicole Smith

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Anna Paquin

You gain and lose different things in different mediums or different sectors of different mediums. There are liberties you get on tiny indie films in terms of not having to be designed toward a marketing demographic.

Anna Quindlen

The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female.

Anna Quindlen

A safety net of small white lies can be the bedrock of a successful marriage. You wouldn't believe how cheaply I can do a kitchen renovation.

Anna Quindlen

I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make my marriage vows mean what they say. I show up. I listen. I try to laugh.

Alphonse Karr

Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.

Andy Rooney

I've learned ... that no one is perfect until you fall in love with them.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts.