A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
Adlai
Stevenson (1900-1965)
A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with
mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to
justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's really
attractive.
Bruce
Friedman
A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.
Victor
Hugo
A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.
Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
Marvin
Kitman
A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it off you.
Francoise
Sagan
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
Fr.
Jerome Cummings
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 , British Actress
A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really
know what goes in it.
Anonymous
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel
de Montaigne
A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
Sidney
Goff
A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps
you with your girdle when your hips stick.
Ogden
Nash
A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
Helen
Rowland (1876-1950)
A kiss is a rosy dot over the 'i' of loving.
Cyrano
De Bergerac
A kiss: To a young girl, faith; to a married woman, hope; to an old maid,
charity.
V.
P. Skipper
A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed
her mind. "What do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she
went down the aisle with one man, and came back with another."
Anonymous
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely
fatal.
Oscar
Wilde (1854-1900)
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
Moliere
A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he's finished.
Zsa
Zsa Gabor
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other
man to take her off his hands.
Sacha
Guitry (1885-1957)
A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
Edgar
Watson Howe
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
Christopher
Morley
A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as
the woman who marries a man to reform him.
Elbert
Hubbard (1856-1915)
A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
Ralph
Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey
Adams
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A
successful woman is one who can find such a man.
Lana
Turner
A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
Baudelaire
A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who
will go to the Bronx are great riches.
Poor Jimmy's Almanac
A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a
good one.
Mae
West (1892-1980)
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it
must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
Friedrich
Nietzsche (1844-1900)
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
Joseph
Addison (1672-1719)
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out
the candle and blows up the bonfire.
Francois
de La Rouchefoucauld
Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles
the great.
Comte
DeBussy-Rabutin
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate
brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
Marcus
Aurelius
Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from
age.
Jeanne
Moreau
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
Victor
Borge
All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
Anonymous
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among
those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
W.
H. Auden
An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of
love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
Harold
Loukes
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the
more interested he is in her.
Agatha
Christie
An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as
charming as if she weren't.
Sacha
Guitry (1885-1957)
An ounce of emotion is equal to a ton of facts.
John
Junor
And I will make thee beds of roses, And a thousand fragrant posies.
Marie-Antoinette,
Queen
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it,
deserves all the consequences.
Isadora
Duncan
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
Rose
Franken
ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
Ambrose
Bierce (1842-1914) - The Devil's Dictionary, 1911
At last I know what love is really like.
Virgil
Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be
married too.
Henry
Louis Mencken (1880-1956)
Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of
your spouse's family does too.
Anonymous
Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you
said; after marriage, he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
Helen
Rowland (1876-1950)
Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's
kinda like being the guy on a date.
Caroline
Rhea
Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
David
Chambless
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of
knowledge.
John
Wesley
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
Oscar
Wilde (1854-1900)
Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense
of alimony.
Oliver
Herford (1863-1935)
By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get
a bad one you will become a philosopher.
Socrates
(470-399 B.C.)
Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
Thomas
Fuller , M.D. , 1732
Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree
to let her have her own way.
Anonymous
Don't knock masturbation -- it's sex with someone I love.
Woody
Allen (Born 1935)
Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
Jackie
Mason
English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea
of useless legislation.
Anonymous
Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than
she managed to do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a
wife as his father did.
Anonymous
Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a
college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to
serve. you only need a heart full of grace. a soul generated by love.
Martin
Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just
what it is.
Diane
Ackerman
Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.
Mark
Twain (1835-1910)
For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking,
an extremely unnatural condition.
Robert
Briffault
For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our
tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work
is but preparation.
Rainer
Maria Rilke
For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I
have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
Lyster
Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your
bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.
David
Pratt
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting
married just because you do.
Zsa
Zsa Gabor
Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the
woman I love" and the second, "For my best friend."
Anonymous
God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help
him still more if he finds her.
Benjamin
Tillett
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
Albert
Einstein (1879-1955)
Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she
finds one.
Oscar
Levant , to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes
it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
Martin
Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)
He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans
to quit his job.
Anonymous
He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and
clearly said, "You're the boss."
Anonymous
He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and
stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
Albert
Einstein (1879-1955)
Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her
life, except for good taste in men!
Wedding Toast
Here's to you and here's to me, and I hope we never disagree. But, if that
should ever be, to HELL with you, here's to ME!
Anonymous
Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
Ray
Bandy
Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks
for the wife's mother.
Ken
Dodd
Honor the ocean of love.
George
de Benneville
Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will
not make them tender.
Mary
Buckley
Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
Zsa
Zsa Gabor
I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they
send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
Dick
Martin
I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know
your name."
Mike
Binder
I don't mind where people make love, so long as they don't do it in the street
and frighten the horses.
Patrick
Campbell, Mrs.
I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and
give her a house.
Lewis
Grizzard
I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
Sam
Kinison
I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do,
but I don't know how to make it interesting.
Milton
Berle , when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians
Hall of Fame Inductions
I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
Will
Rogers (1879-1935)
I hate work. That's why I got married.
Peg
Bundy , character on "Married with Children," U.S.
television show
I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this
reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to
have me.
Abraham
Lincoln (1809-1865) , in a letter to Mrs. O.H. Browning, April 1,
1838
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt,
but only more love.
Mother
Teresa
I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my
dreams.
William
Butler Yeats - He wishes for the cloths of heaven
I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep
with.
Peg
Bundy , character on "Married with Children," U.S.
television show
I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
Zsa
Zsa Gabor
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
Walt
Disney (1901-1966)
I married beneath me. All women do.
Lady
Nancy Astor , attributed
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they
just about throw up.
Barbara
Bush , First lady, 1989
I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
Zsa
Zsa Gabor
I never loved another person the way I loved myself.
Mae
West (1892-1980)
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
Gore
Vidal
I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my
wife treats me like toxic waste.
David
Bissonette
I swear, if you existed I'd divorce you.
Edward
Albee
I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
Henny
Youngman
I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
Adela
Rogers St. John
I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've
experienced pain and bought jewelry.
Rita
Rudner
I think, therefore I'm single.
Female philosopher
I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age.
The next day, she locked me in the cellar.
Anonymous
I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
Groucho
Marx (1895-1977)
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where
love is not.
Robert
G. Ingersoll
I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always
worked for me.
Hunter
S. Thompson
I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of
it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
Bette
Davis
If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
Lisa
Moriyama
If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
Anne
Bradstreet
If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the
men who deserve them.
Robert
Graves
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
Lynda
Barry
If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total
strangers.
Anonymous
If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no
faults at all.
Anonymous
If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
Lily
Tomlin
If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
Johnny
Carson
If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
Anton
Chekhov
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go
ahead, get married.
Katherine
Hepburn
I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
Zsa
Zsa Gabor
Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says:
"I need you because I love you."
Erich
Fromm
In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
Elizabeth
Ashley
In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly
unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most
ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one
of the most ephemeral.
George
Santayana (1863-1952) - Reason in Religion
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
André
Maurois
In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy.
Anonymous
In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
Samuel
Butler
In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still
very much practiced.
Helen
Rowland (1876-1950)
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one
equals nothing.
Mignon
McLaughlin
In the blithe days of honeymoon, With Kate's allurements smitten, I lov'd her
late, I lov'd her soon, And call'd her dearest kitten. But now my kitten's grown
a cat, And cross like other wives, O! By my soul my honest Mat, I fear she has
nine lives
James
Boswell - Life of Johnson
Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
Al
Bundy , character on "Married with Children," U.S.
television show
Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
Anonymous
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
Benjamin
Disraeli
It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next
morning it was someone else.
Rogers
Willson
It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to
women, who are romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream
must do something or they couldn't charge sixteen dollars for that little tiny
jar.
Jane
Goodsell
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an
offer of marriage.
Jane
Austen
It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a
worthless hand; but, by the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are
indispensable to take it off!
Douglas
Jerold , 1858
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
Niccolo
Machiavelli (1469-1527) - The Prince
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
Andre
Gide
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
George
Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
George
Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have
seen it.
Francois
de La Rouchefoucauld
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering
courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity
is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.
Khalil
Gibran
It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best
man.
Anonymous
It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said,
"Even a blind chicken finds a few grains of corn now and then."
Lyle
Lovett , musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, 1994
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