Famous Quotes & Sayings

Swami Vivekananda

Marriage is the truest goal for ninety-nine per cent of the human race, and they will live the happiest life as soon as they have learnt and are ready to abide by the eternal lesson - that we are bound to bear and forbear and that life to every one must be a compromise.

Swami Vivekananda

Marriage is not for individual happiness, but for the welfare of the nation and the caste.

Swami Vivekananda

Marriage is an institution very safely guarded.

Swami Vivekananda

Marriage and sex and money the only living devils.

Swami Vivekananda

Just as man must have liberty to think and speak, so he must have liberty in food, dress, and marriage, and in every other thing, so long as he does not injure others.

Swami Vivekananda

In Tibet there is no marriage, and there is no jealousy, yet we know that marriage is a much higher state. The Tibetans have not known the wonderful enjoyment, the blessing of chastity, the happiness of having a chaste, virtuous wife, or a chaste, virtuous husband. These people cannot feel that. And similarly they do not feel the intense jealousy of the chaste wife or husband, or the misery caused by unfaithfulness on either side, with all the heart-burnings and sorrows which believers in chastity experience. On one side, the latter gain happiness, but on the other, they suffer misery too.

Swami Vivekananda

In countries where there is no marriage, there is no duty between husband and wife; when marriage comes, husband and wife live together on account of attachment; and that kind of living together becomes settled after generations; and when it becomes so settled, it becomes a duty.

Swami Vivekananda

Forget not that thy marriage, thy wealth, thy life are not for sense-pleasure, are not for thy individual personal happiness.

Swami Vivekananda

According to the Hindu way of thinking, marriage is rather a duty than a privilege.

Swami Vivekananda

A monk is not forbidden to marry, but if he takes a wife she becomes a monk with the same powers and privileges and occupies the same social position as her husband.

Ugo Betti

A long association-prolonged human contact, when a man and woman live together-this ends up producing a sort of rot, a poison.

Robert E. Lee

Marry...into a family that will enable your children to feel proud of both sides of the house.

Robert Creeley

My wife and I lived all alone, contention was our only bone. I fought with her, she fought with me, and things went on right merrily. But now I live here by myself with hardly a damn thing on the shelf, and pass my days with little cheer since I have parted from my dear.

Rebecca West

Getting a divorce is nearly always as cheerful and useful an occupation as breaking valuable china.

Rita Rudner

Marriages don't last. When I meet a guy, the first question I ask myself is: is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?

Rita Rudner

The older theory was, marry an older man because they're more mature. But the new theory is men don't mature. Marry a younger one.

Thornton Wilder

I didn't marry you because you were perfect. I didn't even marry you because I loved you. I married you because you gave me a promise. That promise made up for your faults. And the promise I gave you made up for mine. Two imperfect people got married and it was the promise that made the marriage. And when our children were growing up, it wasn't a house that protected them; and it wasn't our love that protected them--it was that promise.

Thomas More

Getting married is like putting one's hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.

Thomas S. Monson

[The Lord] has indicated that the greatest work we parents can do is performed in our homes, and our homes can be heaven, particularly when our marriages are sealed in the house of God.

Robert H. Schuller

Marriage may restrict your activity, but it increases your pleasure. It permits sex without shame, fear, or guilt.

Robert Anton Wilson

When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity.

Richard Gere

The idea that you're completing someone else in a marriage to me is death. That to me is a false start and most of us are usually taught that ... you've got to stand on your own. Then you can build something extraordinary.

St. Jerome

I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.

Ruth Benedict

So much of the trouble is because I am a woman. To me it seems a very terrible thing to be a woman. There is one crown which perhaps is worth it all--a great love, a quiet home, and children. We all know that is all that is worthwhile, and yet we must peg away, showing off our wares on the market if we have money, or manufacturing careers for ourselves if we haven't.

Ruby Dee

The divorce rate would be lower if instead of marrying for better or worse people would marry for good.

Russ Meyer

I'm a serial bigamist.

Richard Bach

Two things I do value a lot, intimacy and the capacity for joy, didn't seem to be on anyone else s list. I felt like the stranger in a strange land, and decided I'd better not marry the natives.

Richard Bach

I’m here not because I am supposed to be here, or because I’m trapped here, but because I’d rather be with you than anywhere else in the world.

Robert Fulghum

The point is that getting married for lust or money or social status or even love is usually trouble. The point is that marriage is a maze into which we wander - a maze that is best got through with a great companion.

Robert Fulghum

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

Robert Frost

It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

Robert Benchley

Consider the number of young people all over the world who are getting married, day in and day out, for no other reason than thatsomeone of the opposite sex looks well in a green jersey or sings baritone, and then tell me that divorce has reached menacing proportions. The surface of divorce has not even been scratched yet.

Saul Bellow

All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.