Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Fonda

I don't think it's natural for two people to swear to be together for the rest of their lives.

Eric Close

The two most important words in marriage for me are 'yes, dear.'

Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

I am not married anymore. I hate marriage... but it's okay now.

Blaise Pascal

The married should not forget that to speak of love begets love.

Billie Jean King

Marriage isn't a 50-50 proposition very often. It's more like 100-0 one moment and 0-100 the next.

Charles R. Swindoll

An anniversary says, "Think of the dreams you have weathered together. They are intimate accomplishments."

Diane Sawyer

A good marriage is a contest of generosity.

Dennis Rodman

I think marriage and athletes is a bad combination.

Craig Ferguson

My mother was tickled and I think kind of proud when my father got hit on my an attractive middle-aged Asian lady who hadn't noticed he was with his family. He was certainly pleased about it.

Connie Sellecca

I went through a long period of time in that marriage when I didn't believe anything was my fault. I had to face what my part was, and only because of that difficult work was I able to trust a man again.

Elizabeth Taylor

Marriage is a great institution.

Elizabeth Taylor

I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed too - for being married so many times.

Elizabeth Hardwick

In the long run wives are to be paid in a peculiar coin — consideration for their feelings. As it usually turns out this is an enormous, unthinkable inflation few men will remit, or if they will, only with a sense of being overcharged.

Elizabeth Janeway

The common impulse is not to sustain a marriage by finding satisfaction elsewhere, but to end the marriage and set up a new one which will provide the comfort lacking in the first.

Elizabeth I

Although my royal rank causes me to doubt whether my kingdom is not more sought after than myself, yet I understand that you havefound other graces in me.

Elizabeth I

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Armistead Maupin

My mother once told me that if a married couple puts a penny in a pot for every time they make love in the first year, and takes a penny out every time after that, they'll never get all the pennies out of the pot.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

Each marriage bears the footprints of economic and cultural trends which originate far outside marriage.

Barbara Feldon

For 50 percent of Americans marriage is forever, for the rest of us there is another adventure.

Barbara de Angelis

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ava Gardner

Maybe, in the final analysis, they saw me as something I wasn't and I tried to turn them into something they could never be. I loved them all but maybe I never understood any of them. I don't think they understood me.

The three most important events of human life are equally devoid of reason: birth, marriage and death.

Marriage is commonly a meal wherein the soup is better than the desert.

Sex outside marriage is sin; sex within marriage is not sin.

Olympism is the marriage of sport and culture.

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Brigitte Nielsen

All I know is it destroyed my family, it destroyed my marriage to Sylvester and I will never get over it.

Antisthenes

Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.

Anthony Weiner

Sooner or later they are going to live in a New York City where gay marriage is not only legal, but it's common and they don't even notice.

Barbara Mertz

Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.

Charles Bukowski

if you get married they think you're finished and if you are without a woman they think you're incomplete.

Charles Bukowski

I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.