Famous Quotes & Sayings

Honore de Balzac

A wife is property that one acquires by contract, she is transferable, because possession of her requires title; in fact, woman is, so to speak, only man's appendage; consequently, slice, cut, clip her, you have all rights to her.

Honore de Balzac

To have one's mother-in-law in the country when one lives in Paris, and vice versa, is one of those strokes of luck that one encounters only too rarely.

Honore de Balzac

Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.

Honore de Balzac

Squeeze marriage as much as you like, you will never extract anything from it but fun for bachelors and boredom for husbands.

Honore de Balzac

A sacrament by virtue of which each imparts nothing but vexations to the other.

Honore de Balzac

The woman who is about to deceive her husband always carefully thinks out how she is going to act, but she is never logical.

Honore de Balzac

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

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.

Oliver Herford

Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.

Oliver Goldsmith

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The First Bond of Society is Marriage.

Kinky Friedman

You never marry the person you first see 'Casablanca' with.

Kinky Friedman

I support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us.

Friedrich Nietzsche

For the longest time, marriage has had a guilty conscience about itself. Should we believe it?--Yes, we should believe it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The quality of a marriage is proven by its ability to tolerate an occasional "exception.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Every relationship that does not raise us up pulls us down, and vice versa; this is why men usually sink down somewhat when they take wives while women are usually somewhat raised up. Overly spiritual men require marriage every bit as much as they resist it as bitter medicine.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Most of the time in married life is taken up by talk.

Gloria Allred

Generally, dictatorships do not work in marriage - or, for that matter, in any other relationship.

Jessica Savitch

In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent.

Jenny McCarthy

Marriage is a pretty amazing thing when you think about it. For two people to live together for so long under the same roof is a big accomplishment. Fifty-year anniversaries are becoming extinct, yet again proving that long marriages deserve awards and praise. Sometimes I see old people in restaurants sitting together eating their meals and I watch them. Sometimes it makes me sad. They don't even talk. Is it because they have nothing else to say, or can they simply read each other's mind by now?

Lakshmi Mittal

At the end of the day you have to keep emotions away.

P. J. O'Rourke

Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.

P. J. O'Rourke

Satan probably wouldn't have talked so big if God had been his wife.

Paul Hornung

Never get married in the morning, because you never know who you'll meet that night.

Patsy Kensit

On her marriage breakup with Liam: I can honestly say that life is fantastic now. I'm so happy that all the mess I used to have to deal with is not my mess anymore.

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.