Famous Quotes & Sayings

Agnes Macphail

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

Alan King

You do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet.

Alan King

Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.

Charles Dudley Warner

There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own mind, and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications of her own.

Richard G. Scott

There are powerful emotions that bring two people together in wonderful harmony in a marriage. Satan knows this, and would tempt you to try these emotions outside of marriage. Do not stir emotions meant to be used only in marriage.

Susan B. Anthony

Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it. And the only possible way to accomplish this great change is to accord to women equal power in the making, shaping and controlling of the circumstances of life.

Susan B. Anthony

I never felt I could give up my life of freedom to become a man's housekeeper. When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she became a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll. Had I married at twenty-one, I would have been either a drudge or a doll for fifty-five years. Think of it!

Tracy McMillan

Yes, I have 'failed' at marriage - a lot.

David McCullough

My wife, the star I steer by.

Dave Barry

As you get older; you've probably noticed that you tend to forget things. You'll be talking with somebody at a party, and you'll know that you know this person, but no matter how hard you try, you can't remember his or her name. This can be very embarassing, especially if he or she turns out to be your spouse.

Caitlin Flanagan

Marriage remains the most efficient engine of disenchantment yet invented.

Cary Grant

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

Eric Close

The two most important words in marriage for me are 'yes, dear.'

Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

I am not married anymore. I hate marriage... but it's okay now.

Khloe Kardashian

When you genuinely feel like that was the right relationship, you're supposed to give it all you can. That's what marriage is about.

My thinking is lot more different with many actresses in the industry. I don't understand why people in showbiz put their profession of acting in the back seat after marriage.

Jane Austen

I would rather have young people settle on a small income at once, and have to struggle with a few difficulties together, than be involved in a long engagement.

Jane Austen

A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who can do it, where there is no doubt of her regard, must, I think, be the happiest of mortals.

Jane Austen

I consider a country-dance as an emblem of marriage. Fidelity and complaisance are the principle duties of both; and those men who do not choose to dance or to marry them selves, have no business with the partners or wives of the neighbors.

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.

Condoleezza Rice

The potential marriage of weapons of mass destruction with terrorism is everyone's nightmare.

William Shakespeare

As a walled town is more worthier than a village, so is the forehead of a married man more honorable than the bare brow of a bachelor.

Brigitte Nielsen

All I know is it destroyed my family, it destroyed my marriage to Sylvester and I will never get over it.

Antisthenes

Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.

Anthony Weiner

Sooner or later they are going to live in a New York City where gay marriage is not only legal, but it's common and they don't even notice.

Barbara Feldon

For 50 percent of Americans marriage is forever, for the rest of us there is another adventure.

Barbara de Angelis

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ava Gardner

Maybe, in the final analysis, they saw me as something I wasn't and I tried to turn them into something they could never be. I loved them all but maybe I never understood any of them. I don't think they understood me.

The three most important events of human life are equally devoid of reason: birth, marriage and death.

Marriage is commonly a meal wherein the soup is better than the desert.

Brendan Behan

In a society which really supported marriage the wife would be encouraged to go to the office and make love to her husband on the company's time and with its blessing.

Brad Pitt

It is each American's constitutional right to marry the person they love, no matter what state they inhabit. No state should decide who can marry and who cannot. Thanks to the tireless work of so many, someday soon this discrimination will end and every American will be able to enjoy their equal right to marriage.