Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harriet Martineau

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Halle Berry

I will not marry again. There is no need.

George Eliot

A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.

Fay Weldon

Ask any woman in an arranged marriage. Love is the least stressful way out.

Fanny Kemble

When marriage is what it ought to be, it is indeed the very happiest condition of existence.

Fannie Hurst

A woman is not a whole woman without the experience of marriage. In the case of a bad marriage, you win if you lose. Of the two alternatives - bad marriage or none - I believe bad marriage would be better. It is a bitter experience and a high price to pay for fulfillment, but it is the better alternative.

Ezra Pound

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Ezra Taft Benson

Fidelity to one's marriage vows is absolutely essential for love, trust and peace

Ezra Taft Benson

The secret of a happy marriage is to serve God and each other.

Ezra Taft Benson

If we would truly seek to be more like our Savior and Master, learning to love as He loves should be our highest goal

Euripides

A rare spoil for a man Is the winning of a good wife; very Plentiful are the worthless women.

It's like a long-term marriage. There are stresses and strains intermittently, but we are kind of stuck with each other.

It's like a collaboration. It's a marriage between the written word, music and imagery. Really, how often do you have that?

It's kind of like marriage times two. You're 24-7.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are some good marriages, but practically no delightful ones.

Euripides

It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.

Esther Williams

Marriage to Fernando offered shelter and security, but the shackle was the price I'd pay.

Henry David Thoreau

If common sense had been consulted, how many marriages would never have taken place; if uncommon or divine sense, how few marriages such as we witness would ever have taken place!

Henry David Thoreau

Men commonly couple with their idea of marriage a slight degree at least of sensuality; but every lover, the world over, believesin its inconceivable purity.

Julie Klausner

In all seriousness, I don't get people who need to make a proposal a bigger deal than marriage already is.

Pliny the Elder

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.

Nathaniel Branden

For "I" to become "we" and yet remain "I," is one of the great challenges of marriage.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

An unhappy gentleman, resolving to wed nothing short of perfection, keeps his heart and hand till both get so old and withered that no tolerable woman will accept them.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.

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.

Stevie Smith

I'm sorry to say my dear wife is a dreamer, and as she dreams she gets paler and leaner. Then be off to your Dream, with his fly-away hat, I stay with the girls who are happy and fat.

Stephen Sondheim

The concerts you enjoy together/ Neighbors you annoy together/ Children you destroy together,/ That keep marriage in tact.

Jimmy Carter

I've never won an argument with my wife; and the only time I thought I had I found out the argument wasn't over yet.

Quentin Crisp

Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan.

Quentin Crisp

As we all know from witnessing the consuming jealousy of husbands who are never faithful, people do not confine themselves to the emotions to which they are entitled.

Terry Bradshaw

After three failed marriages, I know what it's like to be replaced.

Tennessee Williams

Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let's face it.

Richard Pryor

I believe in the institution of marriage, and I intend to keep trying till I get it right.