Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The men that women marry, And why they marry them, will always be A marvel and a mystery to the world.

John Heywood

A good wife maketh a good husband.

John Hay

Maidens! why should you worry in choosing whom you shall marry? Choose whom you may, you will find you have got somebody else.

John Galsworthy

Society is built on marriage ... marriage and its consequences.

John Dos Passos

I never understood exactly why people get engaged--The only time I ever did the most disastrous things happened--but I feel that there's a great deal to be said for immediate matrimony always. If I once got started I'd probably have to become a mormon to cover my confusion. What I mean is that if he and she are crazy about each other it is sheer tempting God to stay apart, come what may. And if people arent crazy about each other being engaged wont help them.

John Donne

What gnashing is not a comfort, what gnawing of the worm is not a tickling, what torment is not a marriage bed to this damnation, to be secluded eternally, eternally, eternally from the sight of God?

John Osborne

Marriage is rather a silly habit.

John Berger

All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.

Jimmy Swaggart

I'm knocking our pitiful, pathetic lawmakers. And I thank God that President Bush has stated, we need a Constitutional amendment that states that marriage is between a man and a woman.

George Ade

If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable.

Garry Shandling

Was the Buddha married? His wife would say, "Are you just going to sit around like that all day?"

Garrison Keillor

Marriage, friends, is a lifelong feast; love is no light lunch.

James Madison

[Exchange] the galling burden of bachelorship for the easy yoke of matrimony.

Joe Rogan

Never stay in a bad marriage, and don't hang around with psycho coke fiends.

Emma Goldman

Nora leaves her husband, not-as the stupid critic would have it-because she is tired of her responsibilities or feels the need of woman's rights, but because she has come to know that for eight years she had lived with a stranger and borne him children. Can there be anything more humiliating, more degrading than a life-long proximity between two strangers? No need for the woman to know anything of the man, save his income. As to the knowledge of the woman-what is there to know except that she has a pleasing appearance?

Emma Goldman

Thus Dante's motto over Inferno applies with equal force to marriage: "Ye who enter here leave all hope behind.

Emma Goldman

From infancy, almost, the average girl is told that marriage is her ultimate goal; therefore her training and education must be directed toward that end. Like the mute beast fattened for slaughter, she is prepared for that.

Elvis Presley

Love me tender, love me sweet, never let me go.

Jimmy Fallon

Researchers in Canada say they have discovered the part of the brain that is used to make decisions, and this is weird: If you're married, it's actually located in your wife's brain.

John Burns

I don't want to be married. I don't know - it sounds crazy, but in my mind, it's all connected. You get married, you have kids, you grow old, then you die. Somehow, it seems to me, if you didn't get married, you wouldn't die.

Joel Osteen

I don't think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be.

Linda Fiorentino

Marriage is a financial contract; I have enough contracts already.

Leo Tolstoy

The chief cause of unhappiness in married life is that people think that marriage is sex attraction, which takes the form of promises and hopes and happiness - a view supported by public opinion and by literature. But marriage cannot cause happiness. Instead, it is always torture, which man has to pay for satisfying his sex urge.

Leo Tolstoy

The goal of our life should not be to find joy in marriage, but to bring more love and truth into the world. We marry to assist each other in this task. The most selfish and hateful life of all is that of two beings who unite in order to enjoy life. The highest calling is that of the man who has dedicated his life to serving God and doing good, and who unites with a woman in order to further that purpose.

Lewis Grizzard

I came from a big family. As a matter of fact, I never got to sleep alone until I was married.

Joseph Heller

I couldn't see tying myself down with a middle-aged woman with four children, even though the woman was my wife and the children were my own.

Joseph Campbell

When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.

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.

Loretta Lynn

Daddy was real gentle with kids. That's why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant.

Lord Byron

But I had not quite fixed whether to make him [Don Juan] end in Hell-or in an unhappy marriage,-not knowing which would be the severest.

Lord Byron

In solitude, where we are least alone.

Lord Chesterfield

If a marriage is going to work well, it must be on a solid footing, namely money, and of that commodity it is the girl with the smallest dowry who, to my knowledge, consumes the most, to infuriate her husband. All the same, it is only fair that the marriage should pay for past pleasures, since it will scarcely procure any in the future.