Famous Quotes About - marriage

  • A dress that zips up the back will bring a husband and wife together. ... James H. Boren {view}
  • A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. ... Michel de Montaigne {view}
  • A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted. ... Helen Rowland {view}
  • A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. ... John Steinbeck {view}
  • A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing. ... Joey Adams {view}
  • A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers. ... Eddie Cantor {view}
  • All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble. ... Raymond Hull {view}
  • All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner. ... Red Skelton {view}
  • Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage. ... Sydney J. Harris {view}
  • An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't. ... Sacha Guitry {view}
  • Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. ... Isadora Duncan {view}
  • Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives. ... Samuel Johnson {view}
  • Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too. ... H. L. Mencken {view}
  • Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats. ... Woody Allen {view}
  • Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him. ... Marilyn Monroe {view}
  • Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left. ... Jean Kerr {view}
  • But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband? ... Mary Astell {view}
  • Caesar might have married Cleopatra, but he had a wife at home. There's always something. ... Will Cuppy {view}
  • Daddy was real gentle with kids. That's why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant. ... Loretta Lynn {view}
  • Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could. ... Abigail Adams {view}
  • Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without. ... James C. Dobson {view}
  • Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands. ... Jean Giraudoux {view}
  • Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do. ... Zsa Zsa Gabor {view}
  • He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows. ... Jeremy Taylor {view}
  • He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of. ... Mae West {view}
  • How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being. ... Oscar Wilde {view}
  • I don't think my wife likes me very much, when I had a heart attack she wrote for an ambulance. ... Frank Carson {view}
  • I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it. ... Lyndon B. Johnson {view}
  • I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. ... Rita Rudner {view}
  • I married beneath me, all women do. ... Nancy Astor {view}
  • I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up. ... Barbara Bush {view}
  • I think women are natural caretakers. They take care of everybody. They take care of their husbands and their kids and their dogs, and don't spend a lot of time just getting back and taking time out. ... Reese Witherspoon {view}
  • I wanted to marry a girl just like my mom. ... Michael Bergin {view}
  • I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year. ... Bette Davis {view}
  • I've had an exciting time; I married for love and got a little money along with it. ... Rose Kennedy {view}
  • I've had two proposals since I've been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a lot of money. ... Ruth Rendell {view}
  • If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable. ... George Ade {view}
  • If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love. ... Michel de Montaigne {view}
  • If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping. ... Mignon McLaughlin {view}
  • If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books. ... Alan King {view}
  • If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. ... Katharine Hepburn {view}
  • In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage. ... Robert Anderson {view}
  • In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring. ... Enid Bagnold {view}
  • In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued. ... Helen Rowland {view}
  • Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house. ... Lewis Grizzard {view}
  • It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being. ... Benjamin Disraeli {view}
  • It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it's separating himself from all the others. ... Helen Rowland {view}
  • It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness. ... George Santayana {view}
  • It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband. ... Euripides {view}
  • It's tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won't drink from my glass. ... Rodney Dangerfield {view}
  • Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave. ... Martin Luther {view}
  • Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end. ... Alphonse Karr {view}
  • Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love. ... Ellen Key {view}
  • Love is often the fruit of marriage. ... Moliere {view}
  • Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage. ... Ambrose Bierce {view}
  • Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. ... Stephen Leacock {view}
  • Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose. ... Beverley Nichols {view}
  • Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder. ... Thornton Wilder {view}
  • Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner. ... Charles Caleb Colton {view}
  • Marriage is a financial contract; I have enough contracts already. ... Linda Fiorentino {view}
  • Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest. ... Yoko Ono {view}
  • Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution. ... Mae West {view}
  • Marriage is a mistake every man should make. ... George Jessel {view}
  • Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit. ... Billy Connolly {view}
  • Marriage is an adventure, like going to war. ... Gilbert K. Chesterton {view}
  • Marriage is an exercise in torture. ... Frances Conroy {view}
  • Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature; whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to brutally oppress people and thereby violated the laws of nature. ... Jack Kingston {view}
  • Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night. ... St. Jerome {view}
  • Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory. ... Abraham Lincoln {view}
  • Marriage is not about age; it's about finding the right person. ... Sophia Bush {view}
  • Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps. ... Joe Murray {view}
  • Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance. ... Michel de Montaigne {view}
  • Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning. ... Jane Harrison {view}
  • Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued. ... Robert Graves {view}
  • Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two. ... Ambrose Bierce {view}
  • Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage". ... Herbert Spencer {view}
  • Married couples who work together to build and maintain a business assume broad responsibilities. Not only is their work important to our local and national economies, but their success is central to the well-being of their families. ... Melissa Bean {view}
  • Married people from my generation are like an endangered species! ... Patrice Leconte {view}
  • Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry. ... Rita Rudner {view}
  • More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse. ... Doug Larson {view}
  • My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives. ... Rita Rudner {view}
  • Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you. ... Jean Rostand {view}
  • Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake. ... Elbert Hubbard {view}
  • Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer. ... Edgar Watson Howe {view}
  • No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married. ... Benjamin Disraeli {view}
  • No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. ... Honore de Balzac {view}
  • On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable. ... Emma Goldman {view}
  • One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again. ... Judith Viorst {view}
  • One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul. ... Honore de Balzac {view}
  • One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague. ... Robert Burton {view}
  • Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman. ... Joseph Joubert {view}
  • Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone. ... Jean-Jacques Rousseau {view}
  • Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does. ... Groucho Marx {view}
  • Protecting the institution of marriage safeguards, I believe, the American family. ... John Boehner {view}
  • Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive. ... Antisthenes {view}
  • She's been married so many times she has rice marks on her face. ... Henny Youngman {view}
  • Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. ... Katharine Hepburn {view}
  • Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce. ... P. J. O'Rourke {view}
  • Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him. ... H. L. Mencken {view}
  • The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly. ... Peter De Vries {view}
  • The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits. ... John Gay {view}
  • The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep. ... A. P. Herbert {view}
  • The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time. ... A. P. Herbert {view}
  • The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character. ... Peter De Vries {view}
  • The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public. ... George Jessel {view}
  • The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. ... Honore de Balzac {view}
  • Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick. ... Candice Bergen {view}
  • Like all Shakespearean comedy, Much Ado deals with love and marriage. But it's also about misunderstanding, misinterpretation and disguise. The entire play is about the ways we mask our identity and hide our true feelings, literally and figuratively. ... Henry I. Schvey {view}
  • This [law] is not about marriage, ... This is about real people. ... Ted Kennedy {view}
  • There is no reason to suppose that the state of the claimants' marriage would be regarded to have any relevance to the majority of the sponsorship agreements relied on by the defendant since they spring from David Beckham's prowess as a footballer, ... Charles Gray {view}
  • We are not the first, but I am sure we will not be the last. After us will come many other countries, driven, ladies and gentleman, by two unstopable forces: freedom and equality. ... Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero {view}
  • Society is strongest when it upholds the basic civil rights of all its citizens, including the right to marry the person you love. ... Mark Leno {view}
  • I'd like to make this marriage work, and we ought to make this joint commitment not to bail out, but I'm not going to sit around here having time pass, increasing my exposure or wasting my greatest assets my years to live if this isn't going to happen or if my giving you time to rehabilitate isn't going to work. We're going to work on this, but during this period, I'm not going to increase my exposure financially and if this blows up, I'm going to put into terms what will happen. ... Gary G. Gentile {view}
  • Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself. '' ... Pearl S. Buck {view}
  • It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as possible ... George Bernard Shaw {view}
  • There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage. ... George Bernard Shaw {view}
  • After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin; they just can not face each other, yet still they stay together ... Hemant Joshi {view}
  • He's been very active in opposing our marriage protection amendment. ... Diane Gramley {view}
  • If people waited to know one another before they married, the world wouldn't be so grossly over-populated as it is now ... William Somerset Maugham {view}
  • You know, my Friends, how long since in my House For a new Marriage I did make Carouse: Divorced old barren Reason from my Bed, And took the Daughter of the Vine to Spouse ... Omar Khayyam {view}
  • The Marriage of Figaro. ... Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart {view}
  • I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage. ... Maria Callas {view}
  • Her marriage is eternal; her Husband is Inaccessible and Incomprehensible. O Servant Nanak, His Love is her only Support. ... Sri Guru Granth Sahib {view}
  • Marriage is a core institution of societies throughout the world and throughout history. It's something that has provided permanence and stability for our very social structure. ... David Vitter {view}
  • Whether it was work, marriage, or family, I've always been a late bloomer. ... Sigourney Weaver {view}
  • I'm not eager to jump into marriage again. I'm in the corner right now, wearing my dunce cap. That area is obviously a nightmare. ... Lisa Marie Presley {view}
  • Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults ... Peter De Vries {view}
  • Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden. ... Chinese Proverbs {view}
  • Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it. ... Helen Rowland {view}
  • Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them. ... Ogden Nash {view}
  • A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love. ... Pearl S. Buck {view}
  • A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short. ... Andre Maurois {view}
  • The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast. ... Gabriel Garcia Marquez {view}
  • I say I dont sleep with married men, but what I mean is that I dont sleep with happily married men. ... Britt Ekland {view}
  • For some of us, watching a miniseries that lasts longer than most marriages is not easy. ... Erma Bombeck {view}
  • We were married by a reformed rabi in Long Island. A very reformed rabi, a Nazi. ... Woody Allen {view}
  • If it were permitted to be accomplished through a second marriage, that would have been the medium, ... Robert Noel {view}
  • I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles. ... Zig Ziglar {view}
  • I'm not sure that leverage coupled with technology is a natural marriage, ... but certainly technology acquisitions can make sense if the capitalization is appropriate. ... Robert Morris {view}
  • Can't you see that marriage is a fundamentally different institution? ... Tom McClintock {view}
  • We're tolerant, ready for gay marriage, and we're unhappy that these people are trying to force their bigotry on us. ... Robert Martin {view}
  • Don't marry a man to reform him--that's what reform schools are for. ... Mae West {view}
  • The reason marriage is fundamentally different from a civil contract is that marriage is formed for a fundamental purpose that is to bring a new life into the world. ... Tom McClintock {view}
  • I'm not cynical about marriage or romance. I enjoyed being married. And although being single was fun for a while, there was always the risk of dating someone who'd owned a lunch box with my picture on it. ... Shaun Cassidy {view}
  • Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action. ... Brendan Francis {view}
  • Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence! ... King Vidor {view}
  • I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more. ... Marc Chagall {view}
  • College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage. ... George Gobel {view}
  • Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it ... Mark Twain {view}
  • Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives ... Algernon Charles Swinburne {view}
  • Marriage is the tomb of love ... Giacomo Casanova {view}
  • Marriage always demands the finest arts of insincerity possible between two human beings ... Vicki Baum {view}
  • Marriage is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important ... Lisa Hoffman {view}
  • There is a time for all things - except marriage my dear. ... Thomas Chatterton {view}
  • Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery. ... H. Jackson Brown Jr. {view}
  • The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage. ... George Bernard Shaw {view}
  • The marriages come and go but your friendships stay, which is the opposite of what it used to be, so that there will be people in our lives for 30 years and often it is not your husband, it's your women friends, male friends with whom you come of age. ... Wendy Wasserstein {view}
  • Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back. ... Al Bundy {view}
  • It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit: divorced from it, they remain barren ... Bertrand Russell {view}
  • What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married. ... Alain de Botton {view}
  • This is exactly what the right wing is afraid of. People have had a year of legal marriage in Massachusetts to see how ending marriage discrimination helps gay and lesbian families and hurts no one. ... Evan Wolfson {view}
  • Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken. ... Albert Camus {view}
  • Those who wish to redefine marriage are resorting to scare tactics and making claims that have no basis in reality. Defining marriage is as uncontroversial as it gets. ... Victoria Cobb {view}
  • Families lived together, moved together and their children often stayed nearby after marriage. You will want to track each of the children in a family even after they have married and established their own families. ... Shirley Sloat {view}
  • It's unfortunate that those that oppose the marriage amendment are using issues like domestic violence as scare tactics. ... Victoria Cobb {view}
  • Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, ''We are celebrities! We are famous!'' I change diapers. I clean up dog doo. ... Bruce Willis {view}
  • Sunday is mostly [a day] of marriage and celebration. Every Sunday there is a wedding. Friends come, the parents come, everybody eats together. It's a big party. ... Mariam Doumbia {view}
  • only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California. ... Margita Thompson {view}
  • start thinking about the country instead of trying to save his marriage and his own fanny. . . Self-indulgence has been in the saddle too long and is taking him over a cliff. ... George Stephanopoulos {view}
  • When across the country the demand for states to defend marriage is overwhelming, it's not accurate to say that people don't want to discuss social issues. ... Victoria Cobb {view}
  • not diluting the marriage between a man and a woman. ... Barney Frank {view}
  • [He said that Richard Blumenthal, the Connecticut Attorney General, had interpreted marriage rates in a way inconsistent with normal anthropological procedures.] Supposedly, the controversy is over whether you count individuals or marriages, ... If you count it the way the AG wants, it is to the tribe's disadvantage. If you count individuals, it is to the tribe's favor. ... We believed we have made a good argument that will be persuasive to the BIA. ... Steven Austin {view}
  • Judy is very clear and forthright about this. Judy believes that marriage is between a biological man and a biological woman. That is the law in Illinois. ... Terry Barnich {view}
  • There is a crisis in America. That crisis is divorce. It is easier to get out of a marriage than (to get out of a) contract to buy a used car. ... Mike Huckabee {view}
  • Gay marriage is already illegal. The ban would sort of double-ban gay marriage. But beyond that, it would prevent Wisconsin from ever having civil unions. It would jeopardize public and private employers from offering domestic partner benefits. I think people are going to ask the question, is this the role of government? ... Mike Tate {view}
  • An abstinence-until-marriage program is not only irresponsible. It's really inhumane . ... Barbara Lee {view}
  • His personality is so big, it was a perfect marriage to New York. He came here and hockey players normally aren't that big and Mark transcended hockey. He was a compelling figure whether you liked sports or whether you liked hockey itself. ... Mike Richter {view}
  • failing to keep my marriage together. ... Harold Nicholson {view}
  • As they settled into marriage, 'Blondie' started to resonate with more people, ... Dagwood wasn't too different than a lot of guys. He forgets to take out the garbage. He'd rather eat one of his huge sandwiches than go out to any fancy restaurant. Hopefully, most people don't have bosses like Mr. Dithers but they could definitely relate to some of the challenges at the workplace. ... Dean Young {view}
  • The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all. ... Iris Murdoch {view}
  • You do not teach the paths of the forest to an old gorilla ... African Proverb {view}
  • In a family argument, if it turns out you are right -- apologize at once! ... Lazarus Long {view}
  • marriage should be one long love affair;why else get married. ... lisa laughton {view}
  • His skill level, and my love for having big guys who can shoot, made the marriage work. He plays and shoots and passes the way I like our big guys to do it to make our offense and defense work. ... John Beilein {view}
  • The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think. ... Justine Vogt {view}
  • The whole purpose is to really establish something that might be seen as a de facto marriage and I just don't support them. I regard marriage as something that belongs to a man and a woman. We extend extraordinary freedoms for people to choose their lifestyle but I actually think that marriage involves a man and a woman committing themselves to one another for the purposes of providing an appropriate environment for children to grow up in. ... John Anderson {view}
  • Nothing is allowed that could in any way break a strong marriage. ... maria mayline grant {view}
  • The marriage of reason and nightmare which has dominated the 20th century has given birth to an ever more ambiguous world. Across the communications landscape move the specters of sinister technologies and the dreams that money can buy. ... J. G. Ballard {view}
  • 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. ... Amy Bloom {view}
  • You don't need to be on the same wavelength to succeed in marriage. You just need to be able to ride each other's waves. ... Toni Sciarra Poynter {view}
  • We believe the only way he can rectify this is by simply allowing the marriage amendment to come out of the Senate Judiciary Committee and come to the Senate floor for a fair and open and honest debate. That's all we're asking for. ... Chuck Darrell {view}
  • They've used a wedding picture from (movie) 'Mr. And Mrs. Smith' and run with this story on the front page. There's simply no truth to this whatsoever. ... Cindy Guagenti {view}
  • Something with about 4,000 to 5,000 square feet that we could use to hold dinners, dances and wedding receptions. ... Bill Potts {view}
  • Marriage is one of the few institutions that allow a man to do as his wife pleases. ... Milton Berle {view}
  • Were kisses all the joys in bed,One woman would another wed. ... William Shakespeare {view}
  • A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possibility that the other may be right, though neither believes it ... Don Fraser {view}
  • The wedding and the honeymoon are probably the furthest thing from marriage. ... Joseph Simmons {view}
  • Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man. ... Henrik Ibsen {view}
  • We celebrate our marriage and family. We don't hide our wedding rings. ... Aja Graydon {view}
  • Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius. ... Warren Beatty {view}
  • It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure. ... Herbert Samual {view}
  • Never let a problem to be solved become more important than the person to be loved. ... Barbara Johnson {view}
  • stay focused on the singular question: Is taxing marriage appropriate? ... Dick Armey {view}
  • Marriage is not just about meeting the right person, it's also about being the right person. ... Jeffrey Coleman Jr. {view}
  • Refreshen love is the maintainance of marriage. ... Nabila Tariq {view}
  • "Infidelity would end if only The Manhood was detachable and kept locked in possession. ... Nabila Tariq {view}
  • A lot of people ask me that and I compare it to a marriage, ... Darren Sharper {view}
  • Lord knows marriage between two people is difficult as it is, but these folks have a mountain to climb to be together. But that's what they want to do. ... Dan Sammons {view}
  • Love is so much better when you're not married. ... Maria Callas {view}
  • My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry. ... Bruce Willis {view}
  • Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes. ... Robert Louis Stevenson {view}
  • A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust. ... Nanette Newman {view}
  • An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know. ... Bette Davis {view}
  • Another ingredient in a happy marriage: Budget the luxuries first! Notebooks of Lazarus Long, Robert A ... Robert Heinlein {view}
  • Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil ... Lord Byron {view}
  • More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed. ... Rainer Maria Rilke {view}
  • A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day. ... Andre Maurois {view}
  • I maintain that it should cost as much to get married as to get divorced. Make it look like marriage is worth as much as divorce, even if it ain't. ... Will Rogers {view}
  • Political elections are a good deal like marriages, there's no accounting for anyone's taste ... Will Rogers {view}
  • Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up ... Joseph Barth {view}
  • With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits. ... Eleanor Holmes Norton {view}
  • They asked her (Ruth Graham) did she ever think about divorce and she said, 'No, I've never thought of divorce in all these 35 years of marriage, but,' she said, 'I did think of murder a few times ... Billy Graham {view}
  • I have affirmed his strong stands for life, marriage, and candidly, low taxes. ... Russell Johnson {view}
  • The State is abdicating its role when it came to providing marriage preparation courses, since it had left them in the hands of the Church. There has to be a synergy between the two if we want to strengthen the family ... Joseph Muscat {view}
  • We saw anti-marriage legislation in so many states passing, with basically glee, that we realized we formally needed more religious outreach to churches, clergy, synagogues and mosques. ... Sylvia Rhue {view}
  • I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing. ... Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh {view}
  • Smoke, rain, and a scolding wife, are three bad things in a house ... Proverb {view}
  • The wife who always insists on the last word often has it. ... Kenneth Hutchin {view}
  • As far as we knew, it was a normal marriage with normal issues and nothing out of the ordinary. ... Dominic DiPuccio {view}
  • I have a feeling this is destiny. [On the eve of her third marriage] ... Christie Brinkley {view}
  • The most important thing for a good marriage is to learn how to argue peaceably. ... Anita Ekberg {view}
  • On gay marriage, for instance, Democrats were all over the lot on the issue. Republicans used it to sharpen their message - that this is what we stand for on this and all these other social, moral values as well. ... Donald Greenberg {view}
  • Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest. ... George Eliot {view}
  • prevent the meaning of marriage from being changed forever. ... George Bush {view}
  • We learned a number of skills in our first year of marriage. ... Suzuko Knott {view}
  • Certainly, on many occasions, as far as their mistresses, broken marriages and financial affairs are concerned, customers would confide in us, ... Chevy Chase {view}
  • Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle ... Heinrich Heine {view}
  • I've sometimes thought. . . that the difference between us and the English is that the Scotch are hard in all other respects but soft with women, and the English are hard with women but soft in all other respects. ... James Matthew Barrie {view}
  • A princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and, as such, it rivets mankind. ... Walter Bagehot {view}
  • I was disappointed in Niagara - most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life. ... Oscar Wilde {view}
  • For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners. ... Oscar Wilde {view}
  • Old Hob was lately married in the Night, What needed Day, his fair young Wife is light. ... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • Marry your Daughter and eat fresh Fish betimes. ... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • Wife from thy Spouse each blemish hide More than from all the World beside: Let DECENCY be all thy Pride. ... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • Schwarzenegger can't afford to sign the 'gay marriage license' bill. He'll actually become a hero to the majority of Californians when he vetoes it. The Terminator should announce without delay that this bill is dead meat. ... Randy Thomasson {view}
  • We call upon Gov. Schwarzenegger to announce that he will veto this anti- marriage, anti-voter bill. ... Randy Thomasson {view}
  • He had a passion about aviation and wanted to do charitable work, so it was a perfect marriage. ... Paul Jacobs {view}
  • We convince by our presence. ... Walt Whitman {view}
  • It was not a healthy marriage for long time. It was never about another man, it was about what my and Dennis's relationship could not sustain. ... Meg Ryan {view}
  • For a marriage to work, for a relationship to work, it requires commitment and a lot of work. There are times when it's not so great, and times when it is. But there has to be more better times than worse. In Canada, I'm the only one of my friends not married. In Los Angeles, I'm a success story. I've had two long relationships. And I'm OK. ... Meg Tilly {view}
  • In marriage, the greater cuckold of the two is the lover ... Paul Gauguin {view}
  • To me, it was just like marriage. I wanted one wife; I wanted one helmet, ... Eric Hill {view}
  • What this anger hides is grief ... the reality that his wife didn't value their marriage as much as he did. He realizes it was a mistake. ... David Gill {view}
  • It's a little bit like having Scott Peterson head up a seminar on troubled marriages. ... Paul Steidler {view}
  • I have had my different husbands, my families. I am fond of them all and I visit them all. But deep inside me there is the feeling that I belong to show business. ... Ingrid Bergman {view}
  • The president has taken a courageous stand in favor of traditional marriage at a moment in American history when the courts are conspiring with anti-family extremists to undermine our nation's most vital institution, ... Louis Sheldon {view}
  • Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career ... Sam Ewing {view}
  • Yesterday Senator John Kerry changed his mind and now supports the ban on gay marriages. I'm telling you this guy has more positions than Paris Hilton. ... David Letterman {view}
  • Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other. ... Sammy Cahn {view}
  • The key to a healthy marriage is to keep your eyes wide open before you wed and half-closed thereafter. ... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest ... Henry Louis Mencken {view}
  • A woman who has made fun of her husband can love him no more ... Honore de Balzac {view}
  • MARRIAGE TIP: Agree to be married only ONE year at a time. Then, remarry each year IF you both still choose to be married. It works great. ... Lorrin L. Lee {view}
  • Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then. ... Jane Austen {view}
  • The First Bond of Society is Marriage. ... Cicero {view}
  • Getting a dog is like getting married. It teaches you to be less self-centered, to accept sudden, surprising outbursts of affection, and not to be upset by a few scratches on your car. ... Will Stanton {view}
  • Both of them used the media throughout the engagement and the marriage. So it should hardly be a shock that their breakup is going to be played out in the tabloids. ... Jacalyn Barnett {view}
  • Today's turn of events brings me great sadness, ... I had hoped to keep this marriage together. ... Donna Hanover {view}
  • Hasty marriage seldom proveth well ... William Shakespeare {view}
  • I thought, genius! The perfect marriage of low budget and high concept. I loved it. ... Chris Ballew {view}
  • Greed in the money of the growth in the children with death in the hatred and a repulsion in filth is a BAD MARRIAGE. ... mucor dedaliv ralui {view}
  • Marriage matters to our society. Mothers and fathers both matter to children. Only a man and a woman have the ability to create children. ... Jim Bunning {view}
  • I think marriage is a religious sacrament, and I don't think the government should get involved in that. But I do think as governor I have an obligation to make sure that every person is treated fairly. ... Jim Davis {view}
  • I kind of agree with the position of most Democrats, that marriage is often a religious institution, and civil unions may be a better way to go. ... Jennifer M. Granholm {view}
  • It's very special, ... We've spent a long time together. It's really like a marriage. We've had good times. We've had bad times. But it's been a heck of an association. ... Jeff Bagwell {view}
  • Let man and woman, united in marriage, constantly exert themselves, that ,they may not be disunited ,and may not violate their mutual fidelity. ... Guru Nanak {view}
  • Who shall say I am notthe happy genius of my household? ... William Carlos Williams {view}
  • Reprehensible is the father who gives not ,his daughter in marriage at the proper time, reprehensible is the husband who approaches not ,his wife in due season , and reprehensible is the son who does not protect his mother after her husband has died. ... Guru Nanak {view}
  • At ten a.m. the young housewifemoves about in negligee behindthe wooden walls of her husband's house.I pass solitary in my car. ... William Carlos Williams {view}
  • In most states, the courts have not looked beyond the biological connections, marriage or adoption in determining the definition of a parent. ... Susan Brooks {view}
  • Only the really plain people know about love-the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents. ... Katharine Hepburn {view}
  • We've been in a complicated marriage with the French for over 50 years now, and we'll be married to them forever, ... Howard Davidowitz {view}
  • The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish. ... Andre Gide {view}
  • We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion ... Erica Jong {view}
  • None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married. ... Edgar Watson Howe {view}
  • Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats ... Marge Piercy {view}
  • As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent. ... Socrates {view}
  • What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility. ... Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy {view}
  • Grief and greed are as inextricably entwined as love and marriage should be. ... Ann Kent {view}
  • Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquility of a lovely sunset. ... Ann Landers {view}
  • Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper ... Scottish Proverb {view}
  • When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship. ... Joseph Campbell {view}
  • The only cure for love is marriage ... Irish Sayings {view}
  • Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, 'What will you have, sir?' And I said, 'A glass of hemlock.' ... Ernest Hemingway {view}
  • If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother. ... Sam Levenson {view}
  • The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults. ... Peter De Vries {view}
  • There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship /only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier. ... Erica Jong {view}
  • Marriage for her was to be a condition of bondage, maternity a condition of suffering and anguish, and in silence and subjection, she was to play the role of a dependent on man's bounty for all her material wants, and for all the information she mig ... Elizabeth Cady Stanton {view}
  • Marriage is socialism among two people. ... Barbara Ehrenreich {view}
  • In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving - instead of actually getting up and leaving. ... Erica Jong {view}
  • A husband and wife ought to continue united so long as they love each other. Any law which should bind them to cohabitation for one moment after the decay of their affection would be a most intolerable tyranny, and the most unworthy of toleration. ... Percy Bysshe Shelley {view}
  • Let the people decide, not the courts. The definition of marriage needs to rise to the level of the constitution. ... Cathi Herrod {view}
  • Although my mother was her own person during their marriage, she loved and respected our father. They understood what had to be done and had a wonderful and fulfilling life together. ... Beatrice E. Morrison {view}
  • As governor, he fought gay marriage tooth and nail, and now he's on the gay social circuit. ... Steven Goldstein {view}
  • Debt surprises are not healthy for a new marriage. Both people should know the consequences before the marriage. ... Harvie Roe {view}
  • These are people who felt trapped in a bad marriage or onerous care-giving duties and widowhood offered relief and escape. The old paradigm would have seen this absence of grief as emotional inhibition or a form of denial, but in our view, these are people for whom bereavement serves as the end of a chronic source of stress. ... Deborah Carr {view}
  • Nick is clearly staking out his financial territory in this marriage. ... Harvey Levin {view}
  • I feel very deeply that the people's voice should be heard -- that a matter such as the definition of marriage is fundamental in our society, and that the citizens should have a right to be heard, ... Mitt Romney {view}
  • After three failed marriages, I know what it's like to be replaced. So that's kind of how Joey Harrington must feel today. ... A former No. 1 choice looks to me like he's going to be a bust in Detroit. ... Terry Bradshaw {view}
  • [He said that Richard Blumenthal, the Connecticut Attorney General, had interpreted marriage rates in a way inconsistent with normal anthropological procedures.] Supposedly, the controversy is over whether you count individuals or marriages, ... If you count it the way the AG wants, it is to the tribe's disadvantage. If you count individuals, it is to the tribe's favor. ... . ... Steven Austin {view}
  • Americans understand it is wrong to tax marriage, ... We will have to put it up on the floor next year and have a president who will sign it. ... Dick Armey {view}
  • It is not discrimination to treat different things differently. ... Maggie Gallagher {view}
  • My parents did not have a perfect marriage. It was pretty good, but it was not perfect. My marriage is not perfect. My wife is, but I happen to be imperfect. However, that does not discount the fact that the definition of marriage must be defended and protected. ... Stockwell Day {view}
  • I have someone on my mind;....I just don't know who it is yet. ... Marty Deggeller {view}
  • There is obviously a rift in the family over which of the proposed amendments best protects marriage and protects the rights and benefits of marriage. The situation right now is delicate. ... Benjamin Lopez {view}
  • People don't seem to change in tandem, so keeping a marriage together over time can be a challenge. ... Honey Hastings {view}
  • My view has always been and I believe it's the law in New York state, that marriage in New York is between a man and a woman, period. That's the law; it's been that way for 200 years, ... George Pataki {view}
  • Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture. ... H. Jackson Brown Jr. {view}
  • Sometimes divorce is better than marriage. ... Sumner Redstone {view}
  • The marriage amendment is in a class by itself because of what's at stake. ... Gary Bauer {view}
  • Sometimes divorce is better than marriage. We found out that bigger is not necessarily better. ... Sumner Redstone {view}
  • I will not remarry. I'm so grateful for the marriages that I have had. I wouldn't be who I am today if I hadn't had those. ... Cheryl Tiegs {view}
  • George Bush doesn't want on his watch to say that marriage, defined as the union of one man and one woman, was lost, ... Gary Bauer {view}
  • Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate. ... W. H. Auden {view}
  • Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three. ... Washington Irving {view}
  • In marriage, is it cheating when one spouse prefers to be with another person. Or, is it just being honest? ... Lorrin L. Lee {view}
  • Marriage is tough, because it is woven of all these various elements, the weak and the strong. "In love-ness" is fragile for it is woven only with the gossamer threads of beauty. It seems to me absurd to talk about "happy" and "unhappy" marriages. ... Anne Morrow Lindbergh {view}
  • I don't believe in marriage. It's bloody impractical to love, honor, and obey. ... Katharine Hepburn {view}
  • That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds. ... John Updike {view}
  • There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages. ... Rainer Maria Rilke {view}
  • The most dangerous food is wedding cake ... James Thurber {view}
  • My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked ... Winston Churchill {view}
  • Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures. ... Samuel Johnson {view}
  • Any woman who still thinks marriage is a fifty-fifty proposition is only proving that she doesn't understand either men or percentages ... Rose F. Kennedy {view}
  • How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive. ... Oscar Wilde {view}
  • It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should refuse an offer of marriage ... Jane Austen {view}
  • Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world ... Erica Jong {view}
  • In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way. ... Iris Murdoch {view}
  • The formula for a happy marriage? It's the same as the one for living in California: when you find a fault, don't dwell on it ... Jay Trachman {view}
  • To marry a woman who you love and who loves you is to lay a wager with her as to who will stop loving the other first ... Albert Camus {view}
  • If you marry a man who cheats on his wife, you'll be married to a man who cheats on his wife. ... Ann Landers {view}
  • In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self ... William Penn {view}
  • Marriage is not a love affair. A love affair is a totally different thing. A marriage is a commitment to that which you are. That person is literally your other half. And you and the other are one. A love affair isnt that. That is a relationship of pleasure, and when it gets to be unpleasurable , its off. But a marriage is a life commitment, and a life commitment means the prime concern of your life. If marriage is not the prime concern, you are not married. ... Joseph Campbell {view}
  • A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage, but an ex-wife is there for the rest of your life ... Jim Samuels {view}
  • Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it. ... Helen Rowland {view}
  • Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising ... Edgar Watson Howe {view}
  • On her marriage breakup with Liam: I can honestly say that life is fantastic now. I'm so happy that all the mess I used to have to deal with is not my mess anymore. ... Patsy Kensit {view}
  • They were not happy marriages. ... Patsy Boyakin {view}
  • That man who is without religion and mercy should be rejected. A guru without spiritual knowledge should be rejected. The wife with an offensive face should be given up, and so should relatives who are without affection. ... Chanakya {view}
  • Those men who are happy in this world, who are generous towards their relatives, kind to strangers, indifferent to the wicked, loving to the good, shrewd in their dealings with the base, frank with the learned, courageous with enemies, humble with elders and stern with the wife. ... Chanakya {view}
  • a marriage or two. ... Jim Harrison {view}
  • this legislature's vote could be reversed, and not only could we lose civil marriage equality, we could also backpedal and lose domestic partner benefits. ... Patrick Guerriero {view}
  • Union in privacy (with one's wife); boldness; storing away useful items; watchfulness; and not easily trusting others; these five things are to be learned from a crow. ... Chanakya {view}
  • This is (a) 30 years ago marriage, so nobody keeps all these papers, we never need it. ... Pappu Singh {view}
  • It's a nice day to start againIt's a nice day for a white weddingIt's a nice day to start again. ... Billy Idol {view}
  • Newsletters and Web sites are a great opportunity for couples to put all of the information about the wedding in one place -- where they're registered, guest hotel accommodations, events that will be going on surrounding the wedding. And you could also include events leading up to the wedding, such as showers and parties. ... Calandra Terry {view}
  • I think you can safely say there are irreconcilable differences between Republicans and Democrats on the marriage penalty. Those differences won't be resolved, and that is why we offered the alternative, ... Tom Daschle {view}
  • Wedding is destiny, And hanging likewise ... Proverb {view}
  • Making a marriage work and having that many kids is a real adventure. It's more challenging than saving the world, I think. ... Alonzo Washington {view}
  • The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation. ... Pope John Paul II {view}
  • Men that have been married for a while make quite good diplomats. To the question: Is a married man, merry?, they will rarely give a straight answer. ... D.Percy {view}
  • You have seen nothing like marriage for increasing the love between two people. ... Al-Tirmidhi {view}
  • For 35 years in his marriage and 30 years in his public service he has kept his private life fairly private. It's hard for him to do now, but he's going to hold on and try. ... Abbe Lowell {view}
  • Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open. ... Ogden Nash {view}
  • There were three of us in that marriage, ... Princess Diana {view}
  • I believe marriages would in general be as happy, and often more so, if they were all made by the Lord Chancellor, upon a due consideration of characters and circumstances, without the parties having any choice in the matter ... Samuel Johnson {view}
  • Friendship . . . is an Union of Spirits, a Marriage of Hearts, and the Bond thereof Vertue. ... William Penn {view}
  • Everybody has different feelings and I think that ... our definitions of love and marriage and honor change as we get older, as we learn more, as we learn things about each other. So it's an ever- changing lesson. ... Julia Roberts {view}
  • [Friends say the actress has almost completely recovered from the breakup of her own marriage, and shows no enmity toward her ex's new love, Angelina Jolie.] I'm not sitting somewhere dwelling on the past or obsessing about the future, ... I don't want to be anywhere other than where I am right now. ... Oprah Winfrey {view}
  • Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid. ... Harlan Miller {view}
  • Our Nation must defend the sanctity of marriage. ... George W. Bush {view}
  • Marriage is a wonderful institution...but who wants to live in an institution? ... Groucho Marx {view}
  • Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. ... George Bernard Shaw {view}
  • I know some good marriages - marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other ... Erica Jong {view}
  • Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce. ... Voltaire {view}
  • Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers ... Alan King {view}
  • For a marriage relationship to flourish, there must be intimacy. It takes an enormous amount of courage to say to your spouse, "This is me. I'm not proud of it -- in fact, I'm a little embarrassed by it -- but this is who I am." ... Bill Hybels {view}
  • Do not decide that someone is good until you see how he or she acts at home ... The Talmud {view}
  • Night is a room darkened for lovers. . . . ... William Carlos Williams {view}
  • There was a concern at one moment. There was that small matter of a marriage in the middle of the recording process. We were still doing the tour, filming the special. There was a lot going on. He wasn't able to write the way he wanted to write until the end of that record. We were all kind of jumping. ... Joe Galante {view}
  • Nobody wants to lose a job or a marriage. ... Joel Blackmon {view}
  • When a man opens the car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife. ... Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh {view}
  • The most enjoyable conversation you can have may be complete silence with the one you love who loves you. ... Lorrin L. Lee {view}
  • 'Tis a duke's duty to make his duchess happy. ... Sarah MacLean {view}
  • Some people may also be working less and not trying as hard to build wealth as they have marriage troubles. Divorce is often a long and messy process. ... Jay Zagorsky {view}
  • Rhode Island and New York don't have clear definitions of marriage in their statutes or constitutions. ... Dale Schowengerdt {view}
  • left open the possibility that we will see a marriage statute in Vermont that will impact this kind of arrangement or this kind of relationship. ... Jay Sekulow {view}
  • The difference is that we have marriage. We've got a world that hasn't changed. ... Jarrett Barrios {view}
  • I have a terrific marriage, but unlike a lot of relationships where they ebb and flow, no matter what happens you fall deeper and deeper in love every day. It's kind of the best thing that can happen to you. It's thrilling. ... Hugh Jackman {view}
  • Marriage is a bargain, and somebody has to get the worst of the bargain. ... Helen Rowland {view}
  • The media seems to think only abortion and gay marriage are religious issues. Poverty is a moral issue, it's a faith issue, it's a religious issue. ... Jim Wallis {view}
  • We think about the future, but not marriage. I just hope we're always happy. ... Joel Madden {view}
  • Marriage is a wonderful invention, but, then again, so is a bicycle repair kit! ... Billy Connelly {view}
  • Marriage is a covered dish ... Swiss Proverb {view}
  • A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards. ... George Eliot {view}
  • Sadly, marriage and motherhood have coincided with the demise of journalism as I knew it and I dreamt that it would always be. ... Christiane Amanpour {view}
  • I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book. ... Gloria Swanson {view}
  • Every marriage of an intellectual with the communist party ends in adultery. ... Nicolas Gomez Davila {view}
  • I don't see any reason for marriage when there is divorce. ... Catherine Deneuve {view}
  • LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease, like _caries_ and many other ailments, is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient. ... Ambrose Bierce {view}
  • Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards. ... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • The marriage didn't work out but the separation is great. ... Liz Smith {view}
  • All the housemaid hopes is, happiness for 'em - but marriage is a lottery, and the more she thinks about it, the more she feels the independence and the safety of a single life. ... Charles Dickens {view}
  • More things belong to marriage than four bare legs in a bed. John Heywood The Proverbs of John Heywood (1546) ... John Heywood {view}
  • Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished ... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe {view}
  • Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they blossom when we love the ones we marry. ... Tom Mullen {view}
  • Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one ... Joseph Campbell {view}
  • Our relationship with Microsoft is kind of like a marriage. It's terrific 99 percent of the time. And one percent of the time we argue, usually over multimedia. And in life, that's not a bad ratio. ... Steve Jobs {view}
  • FM is hard on a marriage. ... Carolyn Scott {view}
  • The constitutional problem created by almost a decade of activist lawsuits to destroy marriage demands a constitutional fix. AFM created the Marriage Protection Amendment and our text has been introduced with bi-partisan sponsorship in two successive sessions of Congress in order to protect the common sense view of marriage shared by most Americans of every race, color and creed. ... Matt Daniels {view}
  • Even though it is a state decision as to whom will receive a marriage license, the federal government decides who gets the tax benefits. ... Lisa Padilla {view}
  • It devastated their lives and they worked very hard to keep their marriage together. They were both very generous and they loved their children with every fiber of their being. ... Lisa Huggard {view}
  • What's fantastic about this marriage is the two product sets are incredibly complementary. ... Vishal Wanchoo {view}
  • There is also a surging fear of marriage among young people. The number of divorces, extra-marital affairs, cheating and domestic violence have warned us that marriage isn't easy. ... Li Li {view}
  • The point is that the history of marriage is a history of constant change. I think it's hard to argue that this change is somehow fundamentally different from the others. ... Jon Davidson {view}
  • Por si no lo sabias, el matrimonio no es como el demonio sino que es como otoo. Que la belleza y la perfeccin de la primavera se va, las hojas de los rboles se caen y solo queda la purita verdad de quien en realidad somos fuera de lo superficial. ... Jasson J. Hidalgo {view}
  • Greg had a marriage break-up and some troubles, an incident that was made public and was in a very distressed state, suffering depression, ... Mark Latham {view}
  • I believe (that) the fundamental and traditional view of marriage is between a man and a woman. On the other hand, I don't believe constitutions are about taking away rights. That's why I wouldn't have supported an amendment in the federal government and I won't support one in New Jersey. ... Jon Corzine {view}
  • It's quite an honor because we live in a day that marriages don't last. ... David Knox {view}
  • We're here to offer a public witness against a state-mandated undermining of the institution of marriage. Oct. 1 is a tragic day because it's the first day a law goes into effect that states a legislative belief that children don't need both a mom and a dad. ... Peter Wolfgang {view}
  • It's amazing that we've been able to put up with each other for 35 years. Most marriages don't last that long these days. ... Chris Squire {view}
  • If you are blessed, you are blessed, whether you are married or single. ... Greta Garbo {view}
  • Media today is the coexistence and layering on of different mediums. We consider this a perfect marriage of mediums a high-profile broad event that quickly grabs the attention of many, many, many affluent viewers that we can harness in a way that's highly interactive. ... Amy Fuller {view}
  • There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it. ... Ernest Hemingway {view}
  • Paternity is assumed when a child is born in a marriage. That's not the case in children born to a couple who are unmarried or to a mother who is unsure of the child's paternity. ... Susan Moore {view}
  • A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage. ... Francis Bacon Sr. {view}
  • I do regret wearing it and I have written to Jennifer Aniston to express my sympathies over her marriage. ... Eva Longoria {view}
  • A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man ... Edgar Watson Howe {view}
  • 'Real' love is like a bird, which just soars higher and higher, whether or not it finds it's Pinnacle, even if it gets burnt a zillion times...it never ever 'even' thinks of going back to where it took off from...yeah...that's real love!! ... Anuroop Tyagi {view}
  • Marriage is not just spiritual communion and passionate embraces; marriage is also three meals a day, sharing the workload and remembering to carry out the trash ... Dr. Joyce Brothers {view}
  • I was never used to being happy, so that wasn't something I ever took for granted. I did sort of think, you know, marriage did that. You see, I was brought up differently from the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy - that's it, successful, happy, and on time. ... Marilyn Monroe {view}
  • A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night. ... Chanakya {view}
  • My boyfriend and I broke up. He wanted to get married and I didn't want him to. ... Rita Rudner {view}
  • In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do. ... Earl Warren {view}
  • Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious. ... Jean Cocteau {view}
  • Ultimately, it's clear that it won't work to try and take away equal marriage. ... Laurie Arron {view}
  • It's kind of like marriage times two. You're 24-7. ... Laurie Corbelli {view}
  • If a state were voting on gay marriage, you would suggest to that state not to approve it? ... Larry King {view}
  • Naturally, there exist concerns about what activist courts might do to undermine these rights and the Defense of Marriage Act, ... But it is premature to amend the Constitution based upon a hypothetical scenario. ... John Sununu {view}
  • Defining marriage is a power that should be left to the states. Moreover, no state should be forced to recognize a marriage that is not within its own laws, Constitution, and legal precedents. ... John Sununu {view}
  • Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. ... Ann Landers {view}
  • Consequently, cohabitation becomes an acceptable halfway relationship, which can be dissolved more easily than a marriage. ... Wang Xun {view}
  • Millions of people understand that it's not bigotry to believe that marriage is between a man and a woman, and it's not right-wing to think that children need a mother and a father, not two mothers and two fathers. ... Gary Bauer {view}
  • I do not support what is, in my estimation, undermining and diminishing the sanctity of legal marriage. It could create a situation where people don't need to get married. ... Suffolk Legis {view}
  • If marriage is to be a success, one should obviously begin by marrying the right person ... Herman Keyserling {view}
  • A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married. ... Henry Louis Mencken {view}
  • When women kiss, it always reminds one of prizefighters shaking hands ... Henry Louis Mencken {view}
  • When a man tells you who he is...believe him. ... Maya Angelou {view}
  • No matter her past, when a chambermaid marries a lord she becomes a lady. ... Latin Proverb {view}
  • He's Perry Como's kid by another marriage. ... Don Rickles {view}
  • Love is a kind of military service ... Latin Proverb {view}