Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas a Kempis

Love is a great thing...which alone maketh every burden light.. Love is watchful, and while sleeping, still keeps watch; though fatigued, it is not weary; though pressed, it is not forced. Love is sincere, gentle, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, and manly. Love is humble and upright, not weak, not fickle, nor intent on vain things; sober chaste, steadfast, quiet, and guarded in all the senses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.

Swami Vivekananda

The West regards marriage as consisting in all that lies beyond the legal tie, while in India it is thought of as a bond thrown by society round two people to unite them together for all eternity. Those two must wed each other, whether they will or not, in life after life. Each acquires half of the merit of the other. And if one seems in this life to have fallen hopelessly behind, it is for the other only to wait and beat time, till he or she catches up again!

Tony Robbins

Marry a man / woman you love to talk to. As you get older, their conversational skills will be as important as any other.

Simone de Beauvoir

Marriage is traditionally the destiny offered to women by society. Most women are married or have been, or plan to be or suffer from not being.

Simone de Beauvoir

Marriage is a career which brings about more benefits than many others.

Jules Michelet

If you wish to ruin yourself, marry a rich wife.

Jules Feiffer

We want playmates we can own.

Karl Kraus

Since the law prohibits the keeping of wild animals and I get no enjoyment from pets, I prefer to remain unmarried.

Karl Kraus

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Joyce Cary

Sara could commit adultery at one end and weep for her sins at the other, and enjoy both operations at once.

Ovid

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

It is ill to marry in the month of May.

Ovid

What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.

Ovid

Love is no assignment for cowards.

Henrik Ibsen

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Helen Rowland

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Helen Rowland

Marriage is a bargain, and somebody has to get the worst end of the bargain.

Helen Rowland

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Helen Rowland

It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it's separating himself from all the others.

Helen Rowland

Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.

Helen Rowland

When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they 'don't understand' one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.

Heinrich Heine

No compass has ever been invented for the high seas of matrimony.

Heinrich Heine

Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.

Hilary Duff

When the darkness rolls in, I'll be there through thick and thin.

Henry Ward Beecher

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Henry Ward Beecher

Well-married, a man is winged: ill-matched, he is shackled.

Henry L. Stimson

Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Henry James

All intimacies are based on differences.

Henry Fielding

His designs were strictly honourable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Marriage is the beginning and pinnacle of civilization.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Whoever strikes at marriage either by word or act undermines the foundation of all moral society.