Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Johnson

Marriage is the strictest tie of perpetual friendship, and there can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity; and he must expect to be wretched, who pays to beauty, riches, or politeness that regard which only virtue and piety can claim.

Samuel Johnson

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Ruth Graham

Pity the married couple who expect too much from one another.

Rowan Williams

Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female; and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen, a covenant between radically different partners.

Rodney Dangerfield

My wife gives good headache.

Rodney Dangerfield

It's tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won't drink from my glass.

Rodney Dangerfield

Last time I tried to make love to my wife nothing happened, so I said to her, 'What's the matter, you can't think of anybody either?'

Robert Southey

A man may be cheerful and contented in celibacy, but I do not think he can ever be happy; it is an unnatural state, and the best feelings of his nature are never called into action.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.

Robert Louis Stevenson

If they only married when they fell in love, most people would die unwed.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

Robert Louis Stevenson

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

Robert Louis Stevenson

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.

Saul Bellow

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

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.

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.

Stendhal

A strange effect of marriage, such as the nineteenth century has made it! The boredom of married life inevitably destroys love, when love has preceded marriage. And yet, as a philosopher has observed, it speedily brings about, among people who are rich enough not to have to work, an intense boredom with all quiet forms of enjoyment. And it is only dried up hearts, among women, that it does not predispose to love.

Shirley Hazzard

Marriage is like democracy - it doesn't really work, but it's all we've been able to come up with ...

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.