Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oscar Wilde

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Oscar Wilde

They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.

Oscar Wilde

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Oscar Wilde

Marriage is hardly a thing one can do now and then, except in America.

Oscar Wilde

Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.

Oscar Wilde

Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public building.

Oscar Wilde

The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him.

Mae West

I have never been able to sleep with anyone. I require a full-size bed so that I can lie in the middle of it and extend my arms spreadeagle on both sides without being obstructed.

Mae West

Marriage is like a book. The whole story takes place between the covers.

Mae West

Men are my hobby, if I ever got married I'd have to give it up.

Mae West

Getting married is like trading in the adoration of many for the sarcasm of one.

Luke Treadaway

It was great to play an ex-marine cockney thug. All my roles are as different as the colours of the rainbow.

Margaret Sanger

A mutual and satisfied sexual act is of great benefit to the average woman, the magnetism of it is health giving. When it is not desired on the part of the woman and she has no response, it should not take place. This is an act of prostitution and is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding.

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.

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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.

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

I tend to be pretty efficient with my time. I work on a novel for four to five hours a day, and then the rest of my day is spent doing other things, whether it's spending time with my family, or going through and making notes on the script, or working on the marketing. It's just a matter of scheduling.

John Green

March 4th, the only day that is also a sentence

P. J. O'Rourke

Marijuana is self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive, and in this world, what worse punishment could there be?

P. G. Wodehouse

Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse.

Ovid

If thou wouldst marry wisely, marry thine equal.