Famous Quotes & Sayings

James E. Faust

Happiness in marriage and parenthood can exceed a thousand times any other happiness

Pat Conroy

Each divorce is the death of a small civilization.

Julia Quinn

My mother is convinced that yellow is a happy color and that a happy girl would get a husband. -Penelope Featherington

Leonardo da Vinci

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

Oscar Wilde

The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.

Oscar Wilde

Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.

Lillian Russell

So many pleasing episodes of one's life are spoiled by shouting. You never heard of an unhappy marriage unless the neighbors have heard it first.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

No labourer in the world is expected to work for room, board, and love -except the housewife.

Leah Ward Sears

A mother is a mother all of your life,but a father is a father only when he has a wife.

LeAnn Rimes

A good friend just told me that the key to a successful marriage was to argue naked! I'm gonna do that from now on, when that rarely happens.

Laurence Housman

If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.

Jodi Picoult

A sacrament--like marriage--means living a life better than your natural instincts, so that you're modeling God. And God never gives up.

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.

Ovid

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Paul Newman

Our marriage works because we each carry clubs of equal weight and size.

Paul Newman

People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.

Maryon Pearson

I married him for better or worse. I didn't marry him for lunch.

Maryon Pearson

Behind every great man there is a surprised woman.

Mary Wollstonecraft

... to improve both sexes they ought, not only in private families, but in public schools, to be educated together. If marriage be the cement of society, mankind should all be educated after the same model, or the intercourse of the sexes will never deserve the name of fellowship ...

Mary Wollstonecraft

When a man seduces a woman, it should, I think, be termed a left-handed marriage.

Mitt Romney

I feel very deeply about the need to respect and tolerate people of different social - or sexual orientation. But at the same time, I believe marriage should be preserved as an institution for one man and one woman.

Mitt Romney

Like me, the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians.

Nell Carter

I've had diseases that lasted longer than my marriages. You know you are in a bad marriage if you walk down the aisle thinking, 'Is this dress right?

Mike Myers

Marriage can be viewed as the waiting room for death.

Joey Ramone

Marriage is worse than dying. Why stay with one person for fifty years? We advise against marriage.

Joe Murray

Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps.

Honore de Balzac

When passion is not fed, it changes to need. At this juncture, marriage becomes a fixed idea in the mind of the bourgeois, being the only means whereby he can win a woman and appropriate her to his uses.

Honore de Balzac

Marriage must perforce fight against the all-devouring monster of habit.

Honore de Balzac

Marriage is an institution necessary to the maintenance of society but contrary to the laws of nature.

Honore de Balzac

Marriage is a fight to the death. Before contracting it, the two parties concerned implore the benediction of Heaven because to promise to love each other forever is the rashest of enterprises.

Honore de Balzac

Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.

Honore de Balzac

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.