Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nuno Bettencourt

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

Richie Sambora

A band is like a marriage, and if you're in a marriage with someone, and you lose yourself in that marriage, the relationship is over, really.

William Shakespeare

A contract of eternal bond of love, Confirm'd by mutual joinder of your hands, Arrested by the holy close of lips, Strength'ned by the interchangement of your rings, And all the ceremony of this compact Seal'd in my function, by my testimony.

William Shakespeare

A light wife doth make a heavy husband.

E. W. Howe

To avoid mistakes and regrets, always consult your wife before engaging in a flirtation.

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.

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.

Charles Bukowski

if you get married they think you're finished and if you are without a woman they think you're incomplete.

Charles Bukowski

I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

Al Gore

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

Roxane Gay

My parents have been married for 42 years. Their marriage has been - from what I can see - a happy one.

Jonathan Evison

My parents divorced after 25 years of marriage.

I think that if I were in a satisfying marriage, I would probably choose monogamy, but I wouldn't want that to be a requirement.

Bill Cosby

For two people in a marriage to live together day after day is unquestionably the one miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

If it were permitted to be accomplished through a second marriage, that would have been the medium,

Bill Cosby

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle that the Vatican has overlooked.

Bill Cosby

The game of chess. Supposedly men made it up, and it's about war and men and the ravages and the bravery and the genius of commanding and moving pieces and ... No. It's marriage. The Queen moves anywhere she wants.

C. S. Lewis

We feasted on love; every mode of it, solemn and merry, romantic and realistic, sometimes as dramatic as a thunderstorm, sometimes comfortable and unemphatic as putting on your soft slippers. She was my pupil and my teacher, my subject and my sovereign, my trusty comrade, friends, shipmate, fellow-soldier. My mistress, but at the same time all that any man friend has ever been to me.

C. S. Lewis

I am in love and out of it I will not go.

C. S. Lewis

The most precious gift that marriage gave me was the constant impact of something very close and intimate, yet all the time unmistakably other, resistant - in a word, real.

Bette Davis

The secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.

Anthony Storr

A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Anthony Storr

If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.

Bertrand Russell

A marriage is likely to be called happy if neither party ever expected to get much happiness out of it.

Bertrand Russell

Many a marriage hardly differs from prostitution, except being harder to escape from.

I was married for 20 years, and now I'm nervous,

Nicole Richie

I would never put my own personal marriage on television,

Lisa Hoffman

Marriage is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important

Marriage is like a phonograph record. You get what you like on one side and take what you get on the other.