Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Pryor

Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers.

Michel de Montaigne

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

Michel de Montaigne

Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.

Michel de Montaigne

Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want then when you see what the other person has, you wish you had ordered that.

Michel de Montaigne

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Michel de Montaigne

[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

Michel de Montaigne

When a Roman was returning from a trip, he used to send someone ahead to let his wife know, so as not to surprise her in the act.

Michel de Montaigne

We do not marry for ourselves, whatever we say; we marry just as much or more for our posterity, for our family. The practice and benefit of marriage concerns our race very far beyond us.

George Clooney

There's a coffin in the back of the church as the wedding is going on ... Look, I'm a romantic. I like marriage...In the movies.

Peter De Vries

... it is a fact universally acknowledged that a husband is the most ridiculous thing on earth, except for a bachelor.

Peter De Vries

I suppose I shall marry eventually One does that, one drifts into stability

Lisa Marie Presley

I'm not eager to jump into marriage again. I'm in the corner right now, wearing my dunce cap. That area is obviously a nightmare.

John Updike

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

John Sununu

Defining marriage is a power that should be left to the states. Moreover, no state should be forced to recognize a marriage that is not within its own laws, Constitution, and legal precedents.

John Stuart Mill

Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house.

Milan Kundera

Biographers know nothing about the intimate sex lives of their own wives, but they think they know all about Stendhal's or Faulkner's.

Mike Mason

It is something that is just there, and it is huge, and everything has been built around it, and wherever one happens to be going to the fridge, to bed, to the bathroom, or out the front door - the tree has to be taken into account. It cannot be gone through; it must respectfully be gone around... it is beautiful, unique, exotic: but also. Let's face it, it is at times an enormous inconvenience.

Joseph Addison

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

Joseph Addison

Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.

Joseph Addison

Marriage enlarges the Scene of our Happiness and Miseries.

Joseph Addison

Good Nature, and Evenness of Temper, will give you an easie Companion for Life; Vertue and good Sense, an agreeable Friend; Love and Constancy, a good Wife or Husband. Where we meet one Person with all these Accomplishments, we find an Hundred without any one of them.

Jose Saramago

No, there are three people in a marriage, there's the woman, there's the man, and there's what I call the third person, the most important, the person who is composed of the man and woman together.

Jim Talent

I've always believed the two best anti-poverty programs are work and marriage.

Lois Wyse

It was only long after the ceremony that we learned why we got married in the first place.

Logan Pearsall Smith

It is a matter of life and death for married people to interrupt each others stories; for it they did not, they would burst.

Madeleine Stowe

Yes, the marriage proposal was shot. Michael excluded the dialogue from the final edit.

Madeleine L'Engle

Sometimes idiosyncrasies which used to be irritating become endearing, part of the complexity of a partner who has become woven deep into our own selves.

Madeleine L'Engle

Because it is the nature of love to create, a marriage itself is something which has to be created, so that, together we become a new creature.

Louisa May Alcott

At twenty-five, girls begin to talk about being old maids, but secretly resolve that they never will. At thirty, they say nothing about it, but quietly accept the fact.

Edward Dahlberg

The majority of persons choose their wives with as little prudence as they eat. They see a troll with nothing else to recommend her but a pair of thighs and choice hunkers, and so smart to void their seed that they marry her at once. They imagine they can live in marvelous contentment with handsome feet and ambrosial buttocks. Most men are accredited fools shortly after they leave the womb.

Edward de Bono

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

Eddie Cantor

A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

As Unto the bow the the cord is , So unto the man is woman; Though she bends him, she obeys him, Though she draws him , yet she follows: Useless each without the other.