Marriage famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Husband, when you tell your wife to go for counseling alone (because you think going to see a counselor is a sign you have failed) is like having a car you love overheat and deciding it's not manly to take it to the mechanic. You can keep on driving it but eventually you will ruin the engine.
-- Adam Hamilton -
There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first.
-- Adela Rogers St. Johns -
Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.
-- Aeschylus -
I suggest that there is a splendid way out of the difficulty of marriage, and that is my way - stay out.
-- Agnes Macphail -
you can't be value free when it comes to marriage
-- Al Gore -
Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.
-- Alan King -
If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books.
-- Alan King -
Banks have a new image. Now you have 'a friend,' your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens?
-- Alan King -
Old married people look so much alike that they have the same number of hairs in their ears.
-- 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 -
Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.
-- Albert Einstein -
There are few who would not rather be taken in adultery than in provocation.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Marriage changes things because there's a lot more at stake. You can't get too toxic because you have to live together. No one can reach for the nuclear button too quickly.
-- Alec Baldwin -
Marriage with love is entering heaven with one's eyes shut, but marriage without love is entering hell with them open.
-- Alec-Tweedie -
All other goods by Fortune's hands are given; A wife is the peculiar gift of heaven.
-- Alexander Pope -
Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.
-- Alexander Pope -
They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
-- Alexander Pope -
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."
-- Alexander Woollcott -
The chains of marriage are so heavy that it takes two to bear them, sometimes three.
-- Alexandre Dumas-fils -
When I hear that a friend has fallen into matrimony, I feel the same sorrow as if I had heard of his lapsing into theism.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
I can think of no habit, kept up through the years, that binds a married couple more than that of reading good books together. Domestic problems and personal problems are for the time forgotten, and an intellectual intimacy is established that can be maintained in few other ways.
-- Alice Hegan Rice -
Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.
-- Alphonse Karr -
Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
A bad marriage is like an electrical thrilling machine: it makes you dance, but you can't let go.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
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 -
The more time you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes.
-- Amy Grant -
Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
-- Anais Nin -
Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.
-- Andre Breton -
A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
-- 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 -
We must refuse to submit to those institutions which are by definition sexist - marriage, the nuclear family, religions built on the myth of feminine evil.
-- Andrea Dworkin -
I've learned ... that no one is perfect until you fall in love with them.
-- Andy Rooney -
the real killer was when you married the wrong person but had the right children.
-- Ann Beattie -
Even when a girl is married she still never completely leaves her mother and father's home.
-- Anna Godbersen -
I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make my marriage vows mean what they say. I show up. I listen. I try to laugh.
-- Anna Quindlen -
A safety net of small white lies can be the bedrock of a successful marriage. You wouldn't believe how cheaply I can do a kitchen renovation.
-- Anna Quindlen -
The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female.
-- Anna Quindlen -
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.
-- Anna Wickham -
They err, who say that husbands can't be lovers.
-- Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea -
A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
-- Anne Lamott -
Was it love at first sight? It wasn't then - but it sure is now.
-- Anne Meara -
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.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh -
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 Stevenson -
I suspect that marriage is like parenthood: every last one of us is an amateur at it ...
-- Anne Tyler -
If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.
-- 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 -
Sooner or later they are going to live in a New York City where gay marriage is not only legal, but it's common and they don't even notice.
-- Anthony Weiner -
Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.
-- Antisthenes -
True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
You see, one loves the sunset when one is so sad.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
Walk through life in dreams out of love of the hand that leads us.
-- Antonio Machado -
Between husband and wife friendship seems to exist by nature, for man is naturally disposed to pairing.
-- Aristotle -
Take each other for better or worse, but not for granted.
-- Arlene Dahl -
My mother once told me that if a married couple puts a penny in a pot for every time they make love in the first year, and takes a penny out every time after that, they'll never get all the pennies out of the pot.
-- Armistead Maupin -
During a long and varied career as a bachelor, I have noticed that marriage is the death of politeness between a man and a woman.
-- Arnold Bennett -
I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
When I was young, I used to have successes with women because I was young. Now I have successes with women because I am old. Middle age was the hardest part.
-- Arthur Rubinstein -
If I get married, I want to be very married.
-- Audrey Hepburn -
And the beauty of a woman, with passing years only grows!
-- Audrey Hepburn -
It's terribly hard to be married ... harder than anything else. I think you have to be an angel.
-- August Strindberg -
Love your calling with passion, it is the meaning of your life.
-- Auguste Rodin -
Maybe, in the final analysis, they saw me as something I wasn't and I tried to turn them into something they could never be. I loved them all but maybe I never understood any of them. I don't think they understood me.
-- Ava Gardner -
The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.
-- B. R. Ambedkar -
Husband and wife are like the two equal parts of a soybean. If the two parts are put under the earth separately, they will not grow. The soybean will grow only when the parts are covered by the skin. Marriage is the skin which covers each of them and makes them one.
-- Baba Hari Dass -
I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
-- Barack Obama -
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush -
The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make on your wedding day, and over and over again and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband...
-- Barbara De Angelis -
Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.
-- Barbara De Angelis -
For 50 percent of Americans marriage is forever, for the rest of us there is another adventure.
-- Barbara Feldon -
Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.
-- Barbara Mertz -
The first step is to find out what you love - and don't be practical about it. The second step is to start doing what you love immediately, in any small way possible.
-- Barbara Sher -
I didn't get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
-- Barbara Walters -
Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
-- Barry Goldwater -
There are two things for a marriage to be good. One is to work hard on it. The other one is to marry above you. And I succeeded at both of those.
-- Ben Affleck -
God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if he finds her.
-- Ben Tillett -
I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.
-- Benjamin Spock -
Life is an opportunity to contribute love in your own way.
-- Bernie Siegel -
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
-- Bertrand Russell -
Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.
-- Bertrand Russell -
St. Paul introduced an entirely novel view of marriage, that it existed primarily to prevent the sin of fornication. It is just as if one were to maintain that the sole reason for baking bread is to prevent people from stealing cake.
-- Bertrand Russell -
Harry and I have been sweethearts and married more than forty years - and no matter where I was, when I put out my hand Harry's was there to grasp it.
-- Bess Truman -
What constitutes success? She who has achieved success has lived well; laughed often and loved much; has gained the respect of little children; has filled her niche and accomplished her task; has left the world better than she found it; has always looked for the best in others and given the best she had.
-- Bessie Anderson Stanley -
The secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.
-- Bette Davis -
Women hope men will change after marriage but they don't; men hope women won't change but they do.
-- Bettina Arndt -
When I say we've had an ideal marriage, I'm not just talking about physical attraction, which I can imagine can wear pretty thin if it's all a couple has built on. We've had that and a whole lot more.
-- Betty Ford -
Marriage is the agreement to let a family happen.
-- Betty Jane Wylie -
Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.
-- Beverley Nichols -
Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.
-- Bill Cosby
