Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Hillary Clinton

You know, we've been married for 22 years ... and I have learned a long time ago that the only people who count in any marriage are the two that are in it.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

He felt married to her, that was all.

Eugene Delacroix

A wife of your own stature is the greatest of all blessings.

Erma Bombeck

It would have been a wonderful wedding - had it not been mine.

Florynce Kennedy

prostitutes don't sell their bodies, they rent their bodies. Housewives sell their bodies when they get married ...

Florence King

The American woman's concept of marriage is a clearly etched picture of something uninflated on the floor. A sleeping-bag withoutair, a beanbag without beans, a padded bra without pads. To work on it, you start pumping--what the magazines call "breathing life into your marriage." Do enough of this and the marriage becomes a kind of Banquo's ghost, a quasi-living entity.

Henny Youngman

She's been married so many times she has rice marks on her face.

Henny Youngman

We always hold hands. If I let go, she shops.

Henri Frederic Amiel

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

George Eliot

When I married Humphrey I made up my mind to like sermons, and I set out by liking the end very much. That soon spread to the middle and the beginning, because I couldn't have the end without them.

George Eliot

Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and the sea is not within sight; that in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin.

George Eliot

I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.

Geoffrey Chaucer

One shouldn't be too inquisitive in life Either about God's secrets or one's wife.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Frank Pittman

Marriage isn't supposed to make you happy - it's supposed to make you married.

Frank Pittman

For most people, a life lived alone, with passing strangers or passing lovers, is incoherent and ultimately unbearable. Someone must be there to know what we have done for those we love.

Frank Pittman

Marriage, like a submarine, is only safe if you get all the way inside.

Frank Pittman

Fidelity is the single most important element in solidly enduring marriages.

Frank Pittman

The more things we can laugh about, the more alive we become: The more things we can laugh about together, the more connected we become.

Frank Pittman

Love is not something people feel, but something people try to express no matter how they feel.

Frank Pittman

Bad marriages don't cause infidelity; infidelity causes bad marriages.

Frank Pittman

Infidelity flows from a belief that women have the power to make you feel like a man if you only find a woman that thinks you're perfect; if you can only find a woman that you haven't hurt or disappointed yet.

Frank Pittman

It is necessary but insufficient to stay married for the children's sake. It is also necessary to stay happily married for the children's sake. I'm so glad someone noticed that marriage doesn't have to make you miserable. It is just so easy to be happy I don't understand why it isn't more popular.

Frank Pittman

. . . in the end, there is nothing a man can do that a woman can't, except be a father.