Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.