Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Twain

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.

Men recognize marriage is going to be a roller coaster. But they're willing to ride it out because they like the company.

Khloe Kardashian

When you genuinely feel like that was the right relationship, you're supposed to give it all you can. That's what marriage is about.

My thinking is lot more different with many actresses in the industry. I don't understand why people in showbiz put their profession of acting in the back seat after marriage.

Jane Austen

I would rather have young people settle on a small income at once, and have to struggle with a few difficulties together, than be involved in a long engagement.

Jane Austen

A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who can do it, where there is no doubt of her regard, must, I think, be the happiest of mortals.

Jane Austen

I consider a country-dance as an emblem of marriage. Fidelity and complaisance are the principle duties of both; and those men who do not choose to dance or to marry them selves, have no business with the partners or wives of the neighbors.

Loni Anderson

I don't think you ever go into a marriage to fail.

Brad Pitt

I have always been somebody that really wants to be married. And I don't know if that's just so I can do it differently than my parents did and prove marriage does work.

I have a deep-seated belief that marriage is between a man and a woman exclusively.

Michelle Yeoh

We've talked about it. I've been married before. We'll stay together as long as we're happy. We don't necessarily have to get married. Marriage is a bonus. Being together is enough. I also like to be independent.

Burt Reynolds

Marriage is about the most expensive way for the average man to get laundry done.

Celine Dion

You were my strength when I was weak; you were my voice when I couldn't speak; you were my eyes when I couldn't see; you saw the best there was in me; lifted me up when I couldn't reach, you gave me faith cuz you believed. I'm everything I am because you loved me.

Al Gore

you can't be value free when it comes to marriage

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.

Conan O'Brien

During last night's debate, John Kerry and John Edwards were so friendly to each other some political experts think that they may end up running together. In fact Kerry and Edwards were so friendly, President Bush accused them of planning a gay marriage.

E. W. Howe

There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is to enjoy earning it.

E. W. Howe

A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.

E. W. Howe

For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone.

Gabrielle Union

In Hollywood, marriages are kind of expected to fail.

Albert Camus

... unhappiness is like marriage. We believe we chose it, but then it is choosing us. That is how it is, we can do nothing about it.

Albert Camus

Old married people look so much alike that they have the same number of hairs in their ears.

Anna Wickham

It is well within the order of things That man should listen when his mate sings; But the true male never yet walked Who liked to listen when his mate talked.

D. H. Lawrence

The Sphinx-riddle. Solve it, or be torn to bits, is the decree.

D. H. Lawrence

Marriage is the clue to human life, but there is no marriage apart from the wheeling sun and the nodding earth, from the strayingof the planets and the magnificence of the fixed stars.

D. H. Lawrence

Protestantism came and gave a great blow to the religious and ritualistic rhythm of the year, in human life. Non-conformity almostfinished the deed.... Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos, and the permanence of marriage.

D. H. Lawrence

The old ideals are dead as nails--nothing there. It seems to me there remains only this perfect union with a woman--sort of ultimate marriage--and there isn't anything else.

D. H. Lawrence

Your most vital necessity in this life is that you shall love your wife completely and implicitly and in an entire nakedness of body and spirit.... this that I tell you is my message as far as I've got any.

Crystal Eastman

I took a small flat for myself and the children ... My husband took a room in a clean rooming house within easy walking distance of his office. ... It is wonderful sometimes to be alone in the night and just know that someone loves you. In other moods you must have that lover in your arms. Marriage under two roofs makes room for moods.

Clint Eastwood

There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.