Famous Quotes & Sayings

Men recognize marriage is going to be a roller coaster. But they're willing to ride it out because they like the company.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

It is in vain to look for the elevation of woman so long as she is degraded in marriage.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Such is the nature of the marriage relation that a breach once made cannot be healed, and it is the height of folly to waste one's life in vain efforts to make a binary compound of two diverse elements. What would we think of the chemist who should sit twenty years trying to mix oil and water, and insist upon it that his happiness depended upon the result of the experiment?

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Two pure souls fused into one by an impassioned love-friends, counselors-a mutual support and inspiration to each other amid life's struggles, must know the highest human happiness;-this is marriage; and this is the only cornerstone of an enduring home.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I think all these reverend gentlemen who insist on the word 'obey' in the marriage service should be removed for a clear violation of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution, which says there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude within the United States.

Dionne Warwick

There was a time in the marriage when I could no longer look at myself in a mirror, couldn't feel I was a nice person. A bad relationship can do that, can make you doubt everything good you ever felt about yourself.

Sex outside marriage is sin; sex within marriage is not sin.

Olympism is the marriage of sport and culture.

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Brigitte Nielsen

All I know is it destroyed my family, it destroyed my marriage to Sylvester and I will never get over it.

Antisthenes

Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.

Anthony Weiner

Sooner or later they are going to live in a New York City where gay marriage is not only legal, but it's common and they don't even notice.

Barbara Mertz

Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.

Diane Sawyer

A good marriage is a contest of generosity.

Dennis Rodman

I think marriage and athletes is a bad combination.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.

Eleanor Holmes Norton

With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits.

Elbert Hubbard

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it

Elbert Hubbard

Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

Eleanor Roosevelt

You need not be proud of me.... I'm only being active till you can be again--it isn't such a great desire on my part to serve theworld and I'll fall back into habits of sloth quite easily!

Aristotle

Between husband and wife friendship seems to exist by nature, for man is naturally disposed to pairing.

Ben Jonson

Man and wife make one fool.

Alexis de Tocqueville

In America a woman loses her independence for ever in the bonds of matrimony. While there is less constraint on girls there than anywhere else, a wife submits to stricter obligations. For the former, her father's house is a home of freedom and pleasure; for the latter, her husband's is almost a cloister.

Mark Twain

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.

Gordon B. Hinckley

If there were no immortality there would be no need for temples. There would be no need for eternal marriage if there were no eternity.

Brad Paisley

When you're old-fashioned like I am, you know marriage is forever. Those vows are a promise.

Johnny Weissmuller

No marriage can stand up under the strain of incessant association.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

When I hear that a friend has fallen into matrimony, I feel the same sorrow as if I had heard of his lapsing into theism.

Alfred Kinsey

The male's difficulties in his sexual relations after marriage include a lack of facility, of ease, or of suavity in establishing rapport in a sexual situation.

Alec Baldwin

Marriage changes things because there's a lot more at stake. You can't get too toxic because you have to live together. No one can reach for the nuclear button too quickly.

Aldous Huxley

There are few who would not rather be taken in adultery than in provocation.

Albert Einstein

The concept of marriage must have been thought up by an unimaginative pig.