Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aeschylus

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

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."

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.

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.

Julie Benz

To us marriage is first, everything else is second.

Spike Milligan

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

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.

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.

David Letterman

Honey, what happened to "ladies first"? Husband replies, "That's the reason why the worlds a mess today, because a lady went first!"

David Blankenhorn

Even with all its problems, I will support marriage as an institution until something better comes along.

Dave Willis

Real love is when you are completely committed to someone even when they are being completely unlovable.

David O. McKay

In choosing a companion, it is necessary to study the disposition, the inheritance, and training of the one with whom you are contemplating making life’s journey.

David O. McKay

The seeds of a happy marriage are sown in youth. Happiness does not begin at the altar; it begins during the period of youth and courtship.

David O. McKay

President David O. McKay (1873-1970) observed that too many couples come to "marriage looking upon the marriage ceremony as the end of courtship instead of the beginning of an eternal courtship. ... Love can be starved to death as literally as the body that receives no sustenance. Love feeds upon kindness and courtesy"

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.