Famous Quotes & Sayings

Erica Jong

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.

Erica Jong

I know some good marriages-marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other.

Happy relationships depend not on finding the right person, but on being the right person.

Elsa Maxwell

Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.

Elvis Costello

I can't say anymore than I love you. Anything else would be a waste of breath.

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.

Isadora Duncan

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Isadora Duncan

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Jack Nicholson

I never had a policy about marriage. I got married very young in life and I always think in all relationships, I've always thought that it's counterproductive to have a theory on that.

Jack Kingston

Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature; whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to brutally oppress people and thereby violated the laws of nature.

J. B. Priestley

Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.

Tom McClintock

Can't you see that marriage is a fundamentally different institution? ... Marriage is the institution by which we propagate our species and inculcate our young." ()

Tom McClintock

Can't you see that marriage is a fundamentally different institution?" ()

Gwen Stefani

[On husband Gavin Rossdale:] We're a perfect couple. He cooks, and I eat.

Gwyneth Paltrow

Our marriage is between us. If we decide to continue being together or not, it's our business.

Robert Blake

I'm not talking about the case, ... I'm talking about my marriage to Sondra, long before the case.

It's a piece of paper, but it's a piece of paper that has meaning and value, just like a marriage certificate,

It's been an interesting 35 years. I mean, this is a marriage, and it's the most successful one I've ever had.

It's like a long-term marriage. There are stresses and strains intermittently, but we are kind of stuck with each other.

It's like a collaboration. It's a marriage between the written word, music and imagery. Really, how often do you have that?

It's kind of like marriage times two. You're 24-7.

Lois Wyse

It was only long after the ceremony that we learned why we got married in the first place.

Logan Pearsall Smith

It is a matter of life and death for married people to interrupt each others stories; for it they did not, they would burst.

Madeleine Stowe

Yes, the marriage proposal was shot. Michael excluded the dialogue from the final edit.

Madeleine L'Engle

Sometimes idiosyncrasies which used to be irritating become endearing, part of the complexity of a partner who has become woven deep into our own selves.

Madeleine L'Engle

Because it is the nature of love to create, a marriage itself is something which has to be created, so that, together we become a new creature.

Louisa May Alcott

At twenty-five, girls begin to talk about being old maids, but secretly resolve that they never will. At thirty, they say nothing about it, but quietly accept the fact.

Ovid

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

It is ill to marry in the month of May.

Ovid

What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.

Ovid

Love is no assignment for cowards.