Famous Quotes & Sayings

Franz Grillparzer

Woman is the crown of all creation, but Man is the head who wears it, and even the servant is master in his house.

Jeanette Winterson

Marriage is the flimsiest weapon against desire. You may as well take a pop-gun to a python.

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.

George Jean Nathan

Marriage is based on the theory that when a man discovers a brand of beer exactly to his taste, he should at once throw up his job and go to work inthe brewery.

Gene Simmons

The only thing wrong with marriage is that one of the persons involved is a man.

George Eliot

A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.

Fay Weldon

Ask any woman in an arranged marriage. Love is the least stressful way out.

Fanny Kemble

When marriage is what it ought to be, it is indeed the very happiest condition of existence.

Fannie Hurst

A woman is not a whole woman without the experience of marriage. In the case of a bad marriage, you win if you lose. Of the two alternatives - bad marriage or none - I believe bad marriage would be better. It is a bitter experience and a high price to pay for fulfillment, but it is the better alternative.

Ezra Pound

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Ezra Taft Benson

Fidelity to one's marriage vows is absolutely essential for love, trust and peace

Ezra Taft Benson

The secret of a happy marriage is to serve God and each other.

Ezra Taft Benson

If we would truly seek to be more like our Savior and Master, learning to love as He loves should be our highest goal

Euripides

A rare spoil for a man Is the winning of a good wife; very Plentiful are the worthless women.

Francis Bacon

A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.

Francis Bacon

Spouses are great impediments to great enterprises.

Francis Bacon

He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.

Jeff Sessions

Marriage has been defined by every legislature that has ever sat in the United States from every State, now 50 States, the same way, but now we have unelected judges altering and changing that fundamental institution.

Jean Rostand

Marriage simplifies life and complicates the day.

Groucho Marx

I am a man and you are a woman. I can't think of a better arrangement.