Famous Quotes & Sayings

Margaret Mead

The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilization on males and females alike must be resolved, a pattern within which men must learn, in return for a variety of elaborate rewards, new forms in which sexual spontaneity is still possible, and women must learn to discipline their receptivity to a thousand other considerations.

King Vidor

Take it from me, marriage isn't a word - it's a sentence.

Kin Hubbard

Women seem to be all right on bargains till it comes to picking out a husband.

Michael Bergin

I wanted to marry a girl just like my mom.

Marlene Dietrich

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.

Marianne Moore

Men are monopolists of "stars, garters, buttons and other shining baubles"- unfit to be the guardians of another person's happiness.

Max Miller

My wife is so stupendously ugly it is easier to take her with me than to kiss her goodbye.

Max Lucado

Love like there's no tomorrow, and if tomorrow comes, love again.

Max Frisch

The point is to show who is the cross and who the crucified.

Max Frisch

Our comparative fidelity was fear of defeat at the hands of another partner.

Meg Ryan

It was not a healthy marriage for long time. It was never about another man, it was about what my and Dennis's relationship could not sustain.

Maxine Hong Kingston

Daughters-in-law lived with their husbands' parents, not their own; a synonym for marriage in Chinese is "taking a daughter-in-law.

Max Schmeling

I had a happy marriage and a nice wife. I accomplished everything you can. What more can you want?

Mary Webb

To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Mary Wesley

Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what's going on in another person's marriage.

Plautus

What is yours is mine, and all mine is yours.

Philip Larkin

He married a woman to stop her getting away Now she's there all day.

Mignon McLaughlin

After the chills and fever of love, how nice is the 98.6 degrees of marriage.

Mignon McLaughlin

What's for dinner is the only question many husbands ask their wives, and the only one to which they care about the answer.

Mignon McLaughlin

Many marriages are simply working partnerships between businessmen and housekeepers.

Mignon McLaughlin

Some marriages break up, and some do not, and in our world you can usually explain the former better than the latter.

Mignon McLaughlin

A love that lasts for twenty years may be better than love, but it isn't love.

Mignon McLaughlin

Affairs are just as disillusioning as marriage, and much less restful.

Mignon McLaughlin

The marriage of convenience has this to recommend it: we are better judges of convenience than we are of love.

Mignon McLaughlin

Pity all newlyweds. She cooks something nice for him, and he brings her flowers, and they kiss and think: How easy marriage is.

John Wilmot

Mothers who force their daughters into interested marriage, are worse than the Ammonites who sacrificed their children to Moloch--the latter undergoing a speedy death, the former suffering years of torture, but too frequently leading to the same result.

John Wilmot

The clog of all pleasure, the luggage of life, is the best can be said for a very good wife.

John Milton

Let us no more contend, nor blame each other, blamed enough elsewhere, but strive, In offices of love, how we may lighten each other's burden.

John Milton

Nothing lovelier can be found In woman, than to study household good, And good works in her husband to promote.

Noel Coward

Marriage is the aftermath of love.

Michael Novak

Marriage, the family unit, was the "original Department of Health, Education and Welfare."

Mark Twain

If husbands could realize what large returns of profit may be gotten out of a wife by a small word of praise paid over the counter when the market is just right, they would bring matters around the way they wish them much oftener than they usually do. Arguments are unsafe with wives, because they examine them; but they do not examine compliments. One can pass upon a wife a compliment that is three-fourths base

Marianne Williamson

A relationship is not meant to be the joining at the hip of two emotional invalids. The purpose of a relationship is not for two incomplete people to become one, but rather, for two complete people to join together for the greater glory of God.