Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Selden

Of all the actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all the actions of our lives, 'tis the most meddled with by other people.

John O'Hara

In every marriage the wife has to keep her mouth shut about at least one small thing her husband does that disgusts her.

Laurence Sterne

Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.

Gary Chapman

Many couples have never learned the tremendous power of verbally affirming each other.

Jon Bon Jovi

Find an independent woman-who loves you for you and will be your best friend. I got it right the first time and was very, very lucky.

Jon Bon Jovi

As for his secret to staying married: "My wife tells me that if I ever decide to leave, she is coming with me."

Johnny Carson

Never marry a girl named 'Marie' who used to be known as 'Murray'.

Lynn Redgrave

I don't want marriage. You know why? Because I did that. I did it for 32 years.

Henry B. Eyring

Our Heavenly Father wants our hearts to be knit together. That union in love is not simply an ideal. It is a necessity

Henry B. Eyring

At the creation of man and woman, unity for them in marriage was not given as hope; it was a command! 'Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh

Henry Adams

The common view of marriage as a primitive institution implies in the man more than arbitrary superiority, such as he exercised over the child, which still remained free. The woman's slavery was assumed to be for life.

Henry Adams

Probably the institution of marriage had its origin in love of property. Both men and women were united in this--that whatever they loved best, they wished to possess. The usual theory holds that the communal system would not permit the gratification of this desire at the expense of communal rights, and that therefore men were driven to gratify their passion by purchasing or by capturing women from neighboring and hostile tribes.

Henry Adams

Every one who marries goes it blind, more or less.

Henry Adams

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

Henry Adams

The capacity of women to make unsuitable marriages must be considered as the cornerstone of society.

Henry A. Kissinger

I go out with actresses because I'm not apt to marry one.

Helen Gurley Brown

I think a single woman's biggest problem is coping with the people who are trying to marry her off!

John Boehner

And protecting the institution of marriage safeguards, I believe, the American family.

Jenna Morasca

The truth is many people see a marriage vow as the only way people are going to stay with someone who is sick.

Eric Hoffer

There is a radicalism in all getting, and a conservatism in all keeping. Lovemaking is radical, while marriage is conservative.

Eric Hoffer

Marriage has for women many equivalents of joining a mass movement. It offers them a new purpose in life, a new future and a new identity (a new name). The boredom of spinsters and of women who can no longer find joy and fulfillment in marriage stems from an awareness of a barren, spoiled life. By embracing a holy cause and dedicating their energies and substance to its advancement, they find a new life full of purpose and meaning.

Enid Bagnold

After forty years of marriage we still stood with broken swords in our hands.

Enid Bagnold

Marriage. The beginning and the end are wonderful. But the middle part is hell.

Lu Xun

Women have a mother-nature and a daughter-nature; there are no women with a wife-nature. The quality of wife is an acquired character; it is a combination of mother and daughter.

John Ciardi

Men marry what they need. I marry you.

John Boehner

Protecting the institution of marriage safeguards, I believe, the American family.

Gloria Steinem

Given the expectations of society at large, men are generally correct in their assumption that it is important for a woman to have a man. What they do not understand is how pathetically little difference it makes what man.

Gloria Steinem

The nineteenth-century wave of feminism was started by older women who had been through the radicalizing experience of getting married and becoming the legal chattel of their husbands (or the equally radicalizing experience of not getting married and being treated as spinsters).

Gloria Steinem

Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.

Gloria Steinem

Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.

J. M. W. Turner

I hate married men. They never make any sacrifices to the arts, but are always thinking of their duties to their wives and families or some rubbish of that sort.

J. Paul Getty

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

H. L. Mencken

The fundamental trouble with marriage is that it shakes a man's confidence in himself, and so greatly diminishes his general competence and effectiveness. His habit of mind becomes that of a commander who has lost a decisive and calamitous battle. He quite trusts himself thereafter.