Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

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.

Stephen Covey

I am convinced that if we as a society work diligently in every other area of life and neglect the family, it would be analogous to straightening deck chairs on the Titanic.

Stephen Covey

Want to improve your relationships? See love as a verb rather than as a feeling?

Suzanne Brockmann

Marriage equality is coming, and not merely to a theater near you.

Steven Curtis Chapman

There's nothing like a good cheating song to make me want to run home to be with my wife.

Sue Townsend

Adrian Mole's father was so angry that so many pepole got divorced nowadays. HE had been unhappilly married for 30 years, why should everybody else get away?

Steven Weinberg

Quantum field theory, which was born just fifty years ago from the marriage of quantum mechanics with relativity, is a beautiful but not very robust child.

Robert Browning

Success in marriage is more than finding the right person: it is being the right person.

Richard Steele

The married state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of heaven and hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Sylvester Stallone

I respect a woman too much to marry her.

Raymond Chandler

Above all never forget that a marriage is in one way very much like a newspaper. It has to be made fresh every damn day of every damn year.

Rick Wright

Pink Floyd is like a marriage that's on a permanent trial separation.

Trent Dilfer

People are often enamored with my Super Bowl ring. But it's my wedding ring that I'm most proud of. And having a good marriage takes even more work than winning a Super Bowl.

Robert Graves

Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.

Robert Graves

Originally marriage meant the sale of a woman by one man to another; now most women sell themselves though they have no intention of delivering the goods listed in the bill of sale.

Stevie Smith

I'm sorry to say my dear wife is a dreamer, and as she dreams she gets paler and leaner. Then be off to your Dream, with his fly-away hat, I stay with the girls who are happy and fat.

Stephen Sondheim

The concerts you enjoy together/ Neighbors you annoy together/ Children you destroy together,/ That keep marriage in tact.

St. Jerome

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

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.

W. H. Auden

To make one, there must be two.

W. H. Auden

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

William Congreve

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

William Congreve

Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.