Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Elizabeth McCracken

I believe marriage is a spectator sport.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

We only attain the true idea of marriage when we consider it as a spiritual union--a union of immortal affections, of undying faculties, of an imperishable destiny.

Edna Ferber

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded. Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt.

Benjamin Franklin

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

Benjamin Franklin

If you want to be loved, love and be loveable.

Benjamin Franklin

The happy State of Matrimony is, undoubtedly, the surest and most lasting Foundation of Comfort and Love . . . the Cause of all good Order in the World, and what alone preserves it from the utmost Confusion.

Benjamin Franklin

Marry above thy match and you will get a master.

Ben Affleck

There are two things for a marriage to be good. One is to work hard on it. The other one is to marry above you. And I succeeded at both of those.

Barbara Walters

I didn't get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!

Anton Chekhov

If you fear loneliness, then don't get married.

Anton Chekhov

I've noticed that people who get married cease to be curious.

Anton Chekhov

A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.

Bob Dylan

I was burned out from exhaustion, buried in the hail, poisoned in the bushes, blown out on the trail; hunted like a crocodile, ravaged in the corn, "Come in," she said, "I'll give ya shelter from the storm."

Billy Connolly

Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.

Brigham Young

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Barry Goldwater

Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.

Arthur Schopenhauer

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Antonio Machado

Walk through life in dreams out of love of the hand that leads us.

Aphra Behn

Tis Love alone can make our fetters please.

William Shakespeare

Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure.

William Shakespeare

My heart is ever at your service.

William Shakespeare

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

William Shakespeare

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke.

Katrina Kaif

You can try to plan your career, but not marriage.

David Brooks

Marital happiness is far more important than anything else in determining personal well-being.