Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Novak

Marriage, the family unit, was the "original Department of Health, Education and Welfare."

Mark Twain

If husbands could realize what large returns of profit may be gotten out of a wife by a small word of praise paid over the counter when the market is just right, they would bring matters around the way they wish them much oftener than they usually do. Arguments are unsafe with wives, because they examine them; but they do not examine compliments. One can pass upon a wife a compliment that is three-fourths base

Marianne Williamson

A relationship is not meant to be the joining at the hip of two emotional invalids. The purpose of a relationship is not for two incomplete people to become one, but rather, for two complete people to join together for the greater glory of God.

Marilyn Monroe

A career is a wonderful thing, but you can't snuggle up to it at night.

Margot Asquith

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Mitt Romney

I feel very deeply about the need to respect and tolerate people of different social - or sexual orientation. But at the same time, I believe marriage should be preserved as an institution for one man and one woman.

Mitt Romney

Like me, the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians.

Oliver Herford

Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.

Oliver Goldsmith

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The First Bond of Society is Marriage.

Kinky Friedman

You never marry the person you first see 'Casablanca' with.

Kinky Friedman

I support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us.

Mark Twain

I would rather go to bed with Lillian Russell stark naked than Ulysses S Grant in full military regalia.

Mark Twain

My advice to girls: first, don't smoke - to excess; second, don't drink - to excess; third, don't marry - to excess.

Mark Twain

What a world of trouble those who never marry escape! There are many happy matches, it is true, and sometimes "my dear," and "my love" come from the heart; but what sensible bachelor, rejoicing in his freedom and years of discretion, will run the tremendous risk?

Mark Twain

God's great cosmic joke on the human race was requiring that men and women live together in marriage

Mark Twain

Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.

Mark Twain

Men and women -- even man and wife are foreigners. Each has reserves that the other cannot enter into, nor understand. These have the effect of frontiers.

Mark Twain

Marriage -- yes, it is the supreme felicity of life. I concede it. And it is also the supreme tragedy of life. The deeper the love the surer the tragedy. And the more disconsolating when it comes.

Leonardo da Vinci

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

Oscar Wilde

The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.

Oscar Wilde

Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.

Lillian Russell

So many pleasing episodes of one's life are spoiled by shouting. You never heard of an unhappy marriage unless the neighbors have heard it first.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

No labourer in the world is expected to work for room, board, and love -except the housewife.

Leah Ward Sears

A mother is a mother all of your life,but a father is a father only when he has a wife.

LeAnn Rimes

A good friend just told me that the key to a successful marriage was to argue naked! I'm gonna do that from now on, when that rarely happens.

Laurence Housman

If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.

Lakshmi Mittal

At the end of the day you have to keep emotions away.

P. J. O'Rourke

Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.

P. J. O'Rourke

Satan probably wouldn't have talked so big if God had been his wife.

Paul Hornung

Never get married in the morning, because you never know who you'll meet that night.

Patsy Kensit

On her marriage breakup with Liam: I can honestly say that life is fantastic now. I'm so happy that all the mess I used to have to deal with is not my mess anymore.

Oscar Wilde

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.