Famous Quotes & Sayings

Phyllis McGinley

Marriage is a lot of things-an alliance, a sacrament, a comedy, or a mistake; but it is definitely not a partnership because that implies equal gain. And every right-thinking woman knows the profit in matrimony is by all odds hers.

Phyllis McGinley

In a successful marriage, there is no such thing as one's way. There is only the way of both, only the bumpy, dusty, difficult, but always mutual path.

Phyllis Diller

The only thing my husband and I have in common is that we were married on the same day.

Harlan Coben

You bring your own weather to the picnic.

Gustave Flaubert

Women want you to deceive them: they force you to, and if you resist, they blame you.

Justin Timberlake

We have a couple of rules in our relationship. The first rule is that I make her feel like she's getting everything. The second rule is that I actually do let her have her way in everything. And, so far, it's working.

Katharine Whitehorn

A good marriage is like Dr Who's Tardis: small and banal from the outside but spacious and interesting from within.

Katharine Hepburn

I don't believe in marriage. It's bloody impractical. 'To love, honor, and obey.' If it weren't, you wouldn't have to sign a contract.

Katharine Hepburn

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

Katharine Hepburn

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

Judith Viorst

Not listening is probably the commonest unkindness of married life, and one that creates - more devastatingly than an eternity of forgotten birthdays and misguided Christmas gifts - an atmosphere of not loving and not caring.

Josh McDowell

What you are as a single person, you will be as a married person, only to a greater degree. Any negative character trait will be intensified in a marriage relationship, because you will feel free to let your guard down -- that person has committed himself to you and you no longer have to worry about scaring him off.

Joseph Cook

Until we have a natural, that is, a conscientious world, it cannot be known by experience what natural law will do for the gratification of a supreme affection; but, if you will give me that world, there will be in it very few not called to marriage, provided society allows proper opportunities for acquaintance between marriageable persons.

Laurel Lea

Marriage is the learning of someone else's habits.

Kyra Sedgwick

After 14 years, it better be a real marriage, you know? We do have a great time together. We are really lucky.

Joyce Brothers

My husband and I have never considered divorce... murder sometimes, but never divorce.

Joyce Carol Oates

The institution of marriage is just formalizing an emotion, an attempt to make it seem permanent. The emotion will last or it won't last; nothing can guarantee it.

Jules Michelet

If you wish to ruin yourself, marry a rich wife.

Jules Feiffer

We want playmates we can own.

Karl Kraus

Since the law prohibits the keeping of wild animals and I get no enjoyment from pets, I prefer to remain unmarried.

Karl Kraus

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Joyce Cary

Sara could commit adultery at one end and weep for her sins at the other, and enjoy both operations at once.

John Scalzi

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Piper

Husbands and wives, recognize that in marriage you have become one flesh. If you live for your private pleasure at the expense of your spouse, you are living against yourself and destroying your joy. But if you devote yourself with all your heart to the holy joy of your spouse, you will also be living for your joy and making a marriage after the image of Christ and His church.

P. G. Wodehouse

Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse.

Ovid

If thou wouldst marry wisely, marry thine equal.

Ovid

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Paul Newman

Our marriage works because we each carry clubs of equal weight and size.

Paul Newman

People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.

Maryon Pearson

I married him for better or worse. I didn't marry him for lunch.

Maryon Pearson

Behind every great man there is a surprised woman.

Mary Wollstonecraft

... to improve both sexes they ought, not only in private families, but in public schools, to be educated together. If marriage be the cement of society, mankind should all be educated after the same model, or the intercourse of the sexes will never deserve the name of fellowship ...

Mary Wollstonecraft

When a man seduces a woman, it should, I think, be termed a left-handed marriage.