Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aristotle

Between husband and wife friendship seems to exist by nature, for man is naturally disposed to pairing.

Ben Jonson

Man and wife make one fool.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

It is in vain to look for the elevation of woman so long as she is degraded in marriage.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Such is the nature of the marriage relation that a breach once made cannot be healed, and it is the height of folly to waste one's life in vain efforts to make a binary compound of two diverse elements. What would we think of the chemist who should sit twenty years trying to mix oil and water, and insist upon it that his happiness depended upon the result of the experiment?

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Two pure souls fused into one by an impassioned love-friends, counselors-a mutual support and inspiration to each other amid life's struggles, must know the highest human happiness;-this is marriage; and this is the only cornerstone of an enduring home.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I think all these reverend gentlemen who insist on the word 'obey' in the marriage service should be removed for a clear violation of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution, which says there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude within the United States.

Dionne Warwick

There was a time in the marriage when I could no longer look at myself in a mirror, couldn't feel I was a nice person. A bad relationship can do that, can make you doubt everything good you ever felt about yourself.

Gordon B. Hinckley

If there were no immortality there would be no need for temples. There would be no need for eternal marriage if there were no eternity.

Brad Paisley

When you're old-fashioned like I am, you know marriage is forever. Those vows are a promise.

Spike Milligan

It was a perfect marriage. She didn't want to and he couldn't.

Ben Carson

My thoughts are that marriage is between a man and a woman.

Alexander Woollcott

It was Mrs. Campbell, for instance, who, on a celebrated occasion, threw her companion into a flurry by describing her recent marriage as "the deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-longue."

Ann Landers

No one knows what a marriage is like except the two people in it - and sometimes one of them doesn't know.

Ann Landers

All marriages are happy, it's living together afterward that's tough.

Andrea Dworkin

We must refuse to submit to those institutions which are by definition sexist - marriage, the nuclear family, religions built on the myth of feminine evil.

Andrea Dworkin

The argument between wives and whores is an old one; each one thinking that whatever she is, at least she is not the other.

Johnny Weissmuller

No marriage can stand up under the strain of incessant association.

Nuno Bettencourt

A band is like a marriage - you don't know why it works, but when it does, everything feels right.

William Shakespeare

Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee, And for thy maintenance commits his body To painful labour both by sea and land, To watch the night in storms, the day in cold, Whilst thou liest warm at home, secure and safe; And craves no other tribute at thy hands But love, fair looks and true obedience; Too little payment for so great a debt.

William Shakespeare

When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

William Shakespeare

Love comforteth like sunshine after rain. Doubt thou the stars are fire; doubt that the sun doth move; doubt truth to be a liar; but never doubt I love you. I love thee, I love but thee with a love that shall not die. Till the sun grows cold and the stars grow old.

Helen Gahagan

When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place.

Abraham Lincoln

Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

When I hear that a friend has fallen into matrimony, I feel the same sorrow as if I had heard of his lapsing into theism.

Alfred Kinsey

The male's difficulties in his sexual relations after marriage include a lack of facility, of ease, or of suavity in establishing rapport in a sexual situation.

Alec Baldwin

Marriage changes things because there's a lot more at stake. You can't get too toxic because you have to live together. No one can reach for the nuclear button too quickly.

Aldous Huxley

There are few who would not rather be taken in adultery than in provocation.

Albert Einstein

The concept of marriage must have been thought up by an unimaginative pig.

Sarah Parish

Marriage is hard, and it can be tough when you're both actors.

Aeschylus

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

The best by far is to marry in one's own rank.

Aeschylus

For the marriage bed ordained by fate for men and women is stronger than an oath and guarded by Justice.

Aeschylus

Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.