Famous Quotes & Sayings

Groucho Marx

Obviously there was no point in being a bachelor if his houseman was going to filch his booze. If he was going to get robbed, he might just as well get married.

Groucho Marx

Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.

Groucho Marx

The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open.

Gerald Massey

Cling closer, closer, life to life, Cling closer, heart to heart; The time will come, my own wed Wife, When you and I must part! Let nothing break our band but Death, For in the world above 'Tis the breaker Death that soldereth Our ring of Wedded Love.

Harriet Martineau

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Halle Berry

I will not marry again. There is no need.

Hortense Odlum

As unmarried business women we must constantly use our opportunities in business in such a way that we are prepared for the marriage which may be ours tomorrow.

Hortense Odlum

... business training in early life should not be regarded solely as insurance against destitution in the case of an emergency. For from business experience women can gain, too, knowledge of the world and of human beings, which should be of immeasurable value to their marriage careers. Self-discipline, co-operation, adaptability, efficiency, economic management,--if she learns these in her business life she is liable for many less heartbreaks and disappointments in her married life.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Modern marriage has lost its meaning--consequently it is being abolished.

George Burns

A married couple that plays cards together is just a fight that hasn't started yet.

George Bernard Shaw

All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.

George Bernard Shaw

Marriage is tolerable enough in its way if youre easygoing and dont expect too much from it. But it doesnt bear thinking about.

George Bernard Shaw

Like fingerprints, all marriages are different.

George Bernard Shaw

Get married, but never to a man who is home all day.

George Bernard Shaw

What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that.

George Bernard Shaw

Morality consists of suspecting other people of not being legally married.

George Bernard Shaw

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

George Bernard Shaw

Unless the law of marriage were first made human, it could never become divine.

George Bernard Shaw

Most married couples spend the whole day apart, the woman in the house, the man in the office or study or workshop.

George Bernard Shaw

A contract for better for worse is a contract that should not be tolerated.

George Bernard Shaw

It's a dangerous thing to be married right up to the hilt, like my daughter's husband. The man is at home all day, like a damned soul in hell.

George Bernard Shaw

What is any respectable girl brought up to do but to catch some rich man's fancy and get the benefit of his money by marrying him?--as if a marriage ceremony could make any difference in the right or wrong of the thing!

George Bernard Shaw

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

George Bernard Shaw

Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?

Franz Kafka

That's how it will be, except that in reality, both today and later, one will stand there with a palpable body and a real head, a real forehead, that is, for smiting on with one's hand.

Erich Fromm

If I am attached to another person because I cannot stand on my own two feet, he or she may be a life saver, but the relationship is not one of love.

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Thomas Fuller

Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.

Oscar Wilde

Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin, but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building.

What was your understanding about whether he was married?

Dennis Hastert

We will start by providing relief from the unfair marriage penalty tax.

Robert Blake

We got married to get to know each other and see if we could make it together,

Julie Klausner

In all seriousness, I don't get people who need to make a proposal a bigger deal than marriage already is.