Famous Quotes & Sayings

Irvin D. Yalom

Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.

Iris Murdoch

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Iris Murdoch

Marriage isn't a tram. It doesn't have to get anywhere.

Iris Murdoch

People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars.

Iris Murdoch

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.

Ilka Chase

The very fact that we make such a to-do over golden weddings indicates our amazement at human endurance. The celebration is more in the nature of a reward for stamina.

I. F. Stone

Rich people march on Washington every day.

Gloria Vanderbilt

Nobody should get married at 17.

Gloria Steinem

Given the expectations of society at large, men are generally correct in their assumption that it is important for a woman to have a man. What they do not understand is how pathetically little difference it makes what man.

Gloria Steinem

The nineteenth-century wave of feminism was started by older women who had been through the radicalizing experience of getting married and becoming the legal chattel of their husbands (or the equally radicalizing experience of not getting married and being treated as spinsters).

Gloria Steinem

Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.

Gloria Steinem

Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.

Geraldine Ferraro

The public is entitled to know whether or not I am married to Jack The Ripper.

Harry S Truman

The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.

J. M. W. Turner

I hate married men. They never make any sacrifices to the arts, but are always thinking of their duties to their wives and families or some rubbish of that sort.

J. Paul Getty

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

H. L. Mencken

The fundamental trouble with marriage is that it shakes a man's confidence in himself, and so greatly diminishes his general competence and effectiveness. His habit of mind becomes that of a commander who has lost a decisive and calamitous battle. He quite trusts himself thereafter.

H. L. Mencken

He marries best who puts it off until it is too late.

H. L. Mencken

No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.

H. L. Mencken

Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.

H. L. Mencken

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

H. L. Mencken

The worst of marriage is that it makes a woman believe that all other men are just as easy to fool.

H. L. Mencken

I am a strict monogamist: it is twenty years since I last went to bed with two women at once, and then I was in my cups and not myself.

H. L. Mencken

The longest sentence you can form with two words is: I do.

H. L. Mencken

Popularity--The capacity for listening sympathetically when men boast of their wives and women complain of their husbands.

H. L. Mencken

The way to hold a husband is to keep him a little jealous; the way to lose him is to keep him a little more jealous.

H. L. Mencken

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

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.

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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.

Mary-Louise Parker

I don’t think it’s that controversial. I’m really in favor of legalizing marijuana. I thought people would be more offended by [this series] than they are. I’m surprised they weren’t.