Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Condoleezza Rice

I've always said that I expected to grow up and get married like any nice southern girl, but the fact is you don't get married in the abstract. You find someone that you'd like to be married to.

Cokie Roberts

There is such pleasure in long-term marriage that I really would hate to be my age and not have had a long-term marriage. Remember, sustaining a pleasurable, long-term marriage takes effort, deliberateness and an intention to learn about one another. In other words, marriage is for grown-ups.

Daphne du Maurier

how lacking in intuition men could be in persuading themselves that mending some stranger's socks, and attending to his comfort, could content a woman...

Cyril Connolly

Most of the beauty of women evaporates when they achieve domestic happiness at the price of their independence.

Cyril Connolly

Marriage is the permanent conversation between two people who talk over everything and everyone until death breaks the record.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

As the family goes, so go the children.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

The principal objective of American government at every level should be to see that children are born into intact families and that they remain so.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Marriage orients men and women toward the future, asking them not just to commit to each other but to plan, to earn, to save, and to devote themselves to advancing their children's prospects.

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.

Alphonse Karr

Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.

Andy Rooney

I've learned ... that no one is perfect until you fall in love with them.

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.

Gabrielle Union

In Hollywood, marriages are kind of expected to fail.

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.

Alexander Pope

All other goods by Fortune's hands are given; A wife is the peculiar gift of heaven.

Irving Layton

Progress of a marriage: ''There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.''