Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daniel Defoe

She is always married too soon, who gets a bad husband, and she is never married too late, who gets a good one.

Dan Black

The True Measure Of Success is determined by your home life.

Don Herold

A woman's hair net tangled in a man's spectacles on top of the bedroom dresser.

Don Herold

An honourable agreement among men as to their conduct toward women, and it was devised by women.

Donald Hall

We learned how to love each other by loving together good things wholly outside each other.

e. e. cummings

someones married their everyones laughed their cryings and did their dance (sleep wake hope and then) they said their nevers they slept their dream

E. B. White

It isn't silence you can cut with a knife any more, it's interchange of ideas. Intelligent discussion of practically everything is what is breaking up modern marriage.

Anais Nin

We have been poisoned by fairy tales.

Ann Beattie

the real killer was when you married the wrong person but had the right children.

Christopher Morley

The man who never in his life Has washed the dishes with his wife Or polished up the silver plate - He still is largely celibate.

Amy Bloom

Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.

Anne Stevenson

I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy.

Anne Tyler

I suspect that marriage is like parenthood: every last one of us is an amateur at it ...

Amy Grant

The more time you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes.

Anne Sexton

Some women marry houses. It's another kind of skin; it has a heart, a mouth, a liver and bowel movements.

Anne Sexton

And thus Snow White became the prince's bride. The wicked queen was invited to the wedding feast and when she arrived there were red-hot iron shoes, in the manner of red-hot roller skates, clamped upon her feet.

Anne Sexton

you see, we live in a cold climate and are not permitted to kiss on the street so I made up a song that wasn't true. I made up a song called Marriage.

Anne Sexton

the marriage twists, holds firm, a sailor's knot.

Anne Sexton

My husband sings Baa Baa black sheep and we pretend that all's certain and good, that the marriage won't end.

Anne Sexton

I am tearing the feathers out of the pillows, waiting, waiting for Daddy to come home and stuff me so full of our infected child that I turn invisible, but married, at last.

Anna Howard Shaw

I care nothing for all the political parties in the world except as they stand for justice.

Andre Maurois

Marriage is not something that can be accomplished all at once; it has to be constantly reaccomplished. A couple must never indulge in idle tranquility with the remark: "The game is won; let's relax." The game is never won. The chances of life are such that anything is possible. Remember what the dangers are for both sexes in middle age. A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Ambrose Bierce

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Ambrose Bierce

A bad marriage is like an electrical thrilling machine: it makes you dance, but you can't let go.

Anne Meara

Was it love at first sight? It wasn't then - but it sure is now.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The web of marriage is made by propinquity, in the day to day living side by side, looking outward in the same direction. It is woven in space and in time of the substance of life itself.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Alexander Pope

Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.

Drew Barrymore

Both of my marriages have taught me the same lesson twice over really harsh: listen to your instincts. Don't be a people pleaser.

Dorothy L. Sayers

A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity.

Dora Russell

Marriage laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.

Colley Cibber

Oh! How many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring.