Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pope John Paul II

Love the family! Defend and promote it as the basic cell of human society; nurture it as the prime sanctuary of life. Give great care to the preparation of engaged couples and be close to young married couples, so that they will be for their children and the whole community an eloquent testimony of God's love.

Pierre Corneille

I am Roman, alas, because Horace is Roman.

Philip Massinger

But married once, a man is stak'd or pown'd, and cannot graze beyond his own hedge.

Phil McGraw

Why do so many marriages fail? Because nobody gets taught how to be married. We're not taught how to pick a mate, or why to pick a mate; we don't know how to manage our emotions once we're in a marriage; we don't know how to resolve marital conflict. Married people have never been taught why they or their spouses feel the way they do and act the way they do. Nobody has ever taught us the fundamentals.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

A wise woman will always let her husband have her way.

Reese Witherspoon

I think women are natural caretakers. They take care of everybody. They take care of their husbands and their kids and their dogs, and don't spend a lot of time just getting back and taking time out.

Robert A. Heinlein

A woman is not property, and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.

Tim McGraw

I don't know where I'd be without you here with me. Life with you makes perfect sense. You're my best friend.

Tim Allen

There is no greater feeling than when a groom turns to see his bride and has tears in his eyes because she is so beautiful.

Thomas Szasz

Marriages are said to be made in Heaven, which may be why they don't work here on Earth.

Robert Boyle

He that said it was not good for man to be alone, placed the celibate amongst the inferior states of perfection.

Sam Ewing

In many instances, marriage vows would be more accurate if the phrase were changed to 'Until debt do us part'.

Ron Paul

Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty.

Sam Kinison

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Sacha Guitry

There are women whose infidelities are the only link they still have with their husbands.

Sacha Guitry

An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.

Susan Faludi

Having whipped single women into high marital panic-or "nuptialitis," as one columnist called it- the press hastened to soothe fretted brows with conjugal tonic.

Susan Faludi

To be unwed and female was to succumb to an illness with only one known cure: marriage.

Randall Terry

How long before we have, not just homosexual marriage, but homosexual unions between adult men and small boys?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whom God has put asunder, why should man put together?

Scarlett Johansson

You're married, and suddenly you have your own family. There's a nice comfort in that. That part of your life is certain ... You've got your home in that other person.

Shaquille O'Neal

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years - Rudy Giuliani Two secrets to keep your marriage brimming: 1. Whenever you're wrong, admit it, 2. Whenever you're right, shut up

Len Deighton

The tragedy of marriage is that while all women marry thinking that their man will change, all men marry believing their wife will never change.

Larry David

Every relationship is just so tenuous and precarious.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Marriage (in what is called the spiritual world) is impossible, because of the inequality between every subject and every object.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The plays of children are nonsense, but very educative nonsense. So it is with the largest and solemnest things, with commerce, government, church, marriage, and so with the history of every man's bread, and the ways by which he is to come by it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Worst, when this sensualism intrudes into the education of young women, and withers the hope and affection of human nature, by teaching that marriage signifies nothing but a housewife's thrift, and that woman's life has no other aim.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?

Sean Penn

Marriage ain't easy, but it's great most of the time.

Les Dawson

Marriage is an institution and that's where a couple finishes up.

Lenny Bruce

Never tell. Not if you love your wife...In fact, if your old lady walks in on you deny it. Yeah. Just flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around her neck 'Lay On Top Of Me Or I'll Die.' " I didn't know what I was goin' to do...

L. Ron Hubbard

This relationship is the vessel wherein is nurtured the life force of both individuals, whereby they create the future of the human race in body and thought.

Tertullian

And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.