Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Hamilton

In the end maybe what marriage offered was the determination of one's burial site.

Jane Fonda

Well, what is a relationship? It's about two people having tremendous weaknesses and vulnerabilities, like we all do, and one person being able to strengthen the other in their areas of vulnerability, and vice versa. You need each other. You complete each other, passion and romance aside.

Jane Fonda

I don't think it's natural for two people to swear to be together for the rest of their lives.

Carl Jung

Seldom, or perhaps never, does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises; there is no coming to consciousness without pain.

Carl Jung

Conflicts create the fire of affects and emotions; and like every fire it has two aspects: that of burning and that of giving light.

Bill Moyers

In marriage, everyday you love,and everyday you forgive.It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgiveness

Bess Truman

Harry and I have been sweethearts and married more than forty years - and no matter where I was, when I put out my hand Harry's was there to grasp it.

Bertrand Russell

Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instinct can be perceived.

Bertrand Russell

St. Paul introduced an entirely novel view of marriage, that it existed primarily to prevent the sin of fornication. It is just as if one were to maintain that the sole reason for baking bread is to prevent people from stealing cake.

Bill Maher

I always compare marriage to communism. They're both institutions that don't conform to human nature, so you're going to end up with lying and hypocrisy.

Bob Hope

I've been married fifty-five years and I've been home three weeks.

Betty Ford

When I say we've had an ideal marriage, I'm not just talking about physical attraction, which I can imagine can wear pretty thin if it's all a couple has built on. We've had that and a whole lot more.

Bill Gates

In my parents I saw a model where they were really always communicating, doing things together. They were really kind of a team. I wanted some of that magic myself.

Anthony Trollope

That girls should not marry for money we are all agreed. A lady who can sell herself for a title or an estate, for an income or aset of family diamonds, treats herself as a farmer treats his sheep and oxen--makes hardly more of herself, of her own inner self, in which are comprised a mind and soul, than the poor wretch of her own sex who earns her bread in the lowest state of degradation.

Anthony Trollope

But the hobbledehoy, though he blushes when women address him, and is uneasy even when he is near them, though he is not master ofhis limbs in a ball-room, and is hardly master of his tongue at any time, is the most eloquent of beings, and especially eloquent among beautiful women.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Every wedding must be an occasion of joy that human beings can do such great things, that they have been given such immense freedom and power to take the helm in their life’s journey…

Diane Ackerman

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Derrick Jensen

a real partnership in which all parties help all others to be more fully themselves

Craig Ferguson

My mother was tickled and I think kind of proud when my father got hit on my an attractive middle-aged Asian lady who hadn't noticed he was with his family. He was certainly pleased about it.

Connie Sellecca

I went through a long period of time in that marriage when I didn't believe anything was my fault. I had to face what my part was, and only because of that difficult work was I able to trust a man again.

Elizabeth Taylor

Marriage is a great institution.

Elizabeth Taylor

I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed too - for being married so many times.

Elizabeth Hardwick

In the long run wives are to be paid in a peculiar coin — consideration for their feelings. As it usually turns out this is an enormous, unthinkable inflation few men will remit, or if they will, only with a sense of being overcharged.

Elizabeth Janeway

The common impulse is not to sustain a marriage by finding satisfaction elsewhere, but to end the marriage and set up a new one which will provide the comfort lacking in the first.

Elizabeth I

Although my royal rank causes me to doubt whether my kingdom is not more sought after than myself, yet I understand that you havefound other graces in me.

Elizabeth I

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Armistead Maupin

My mother once told me that if a married couple puts a penny in a pot for every time they make love in the first year, and takes a penny out every time after that, they'll never get all the pennies out of the pot.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

Each marriage bears the footprints of economic and cultural trends which originate far outside marriage.

Blaise Pascal

The married should not forget that to speak of love begets love.

Billie Jean King

Marriage isn't a 50-50 proposition very often. It's more like 100-0 one moment and 0-100 the next.

Charles R. Swindoll

An anniversary says, "Think of the dreams you have weathered together. They are intimate accomplishments."

Diane Sawyer

A good marriage is a contest of generosity.

Dennis Rodman

I think marriage and athletes is a bad combination.