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Titanic Movie Love Quote

Rose: I love you, Jack.
Jack: Don't you do that, don't say your good-byes.
Rose: I'm so cold.
Jack: Listen, Rose. You're gonna get out of here, you're gonna go on and make lots of babies, and you're gonna watch them grow. You're gonna die an old... an old lady warm in her bed, but not here, not this night. Not like this, do you understand me?
Rose: I can't feel my body.
Jack: Winning that ticket, Rose, was the best thing that ever happened to me... it brought me to you. And I'm thankful for that, Rose. I'm thankful. You must do me this honor, Rose. Promise me you'll survive. That you won't give up, no matter what happens, no matter how hopeless. Promise me now, Rose, and never let go of that promise.
Rose: I promise.
Jack: Never let go.
Rose: I'll never let go. I'll never let go, Jack..
Titanic: Movie Love Quotes

1 Rosa Parks quote, 1 M.L.K. Jr. (Martin Luther King Jr.) quote

"The only tired I was, was tired of giving in" ~ Rosa Parks

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." ~ M.L.K. Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

A lie cannot live.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

A right delayed is a right denied.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

A riot is the language of the unheard.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Quote Of The Day 8/28/10

Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
- Samuel Johnson
Any woman who thinks the way to a man's heart is through his stomach is aiming about 10 inches too high.
- Adrienne E. Gusoff
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works.
- John Gaule

Quote Of The Day 8/27/10

Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
- Franklin P. Adams
If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.
- Jimmy Buffett
We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
- Roald Dahl

Faith Quotes

Faith is like radar that sees through the fog. ~Corrie Ten Boom, Tramp for the Lord


Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right. ~John Donne


Faith is reason grown courageous. ~Sherwood Eddy


Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. ~Kahlil Gibran


Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. And lo, no one was there. ~Author Unknown


If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We couldn't even eat hash with safety. ~Josh Billings, His Complete Works, 1888


Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch. ~E.M. Forster


Faith is spiritualized imagination. ~Henry Ward Beecher


Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. ~J.R.R. Tolkien


Faith is courage; it is creative while despair is always destructive. ~David S. Muzzey


Faith is a passionate intuition. ~William Wordsworth


To me faith means not worrying. ~John Dewey


Faith is putting all your eggs in God's basket, then counting your blessings before they hatch. ~Ramona C. Carroll


Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of faith. ~Author Unknown


Faith is the bird that sings when the dawn is still dark. ~Rabindranath Tagore


He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly. ~B.C. Forbes


A faith of convenience is a hollow faith. ~Father Mulcahy, M*A*S*H, "A Holy Mess," 1982


Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings. ~Victor Hugo


Faith makes things possible, not easy. ~Author Unknown


Faith is raising the sail of our little boat until it is caught up in the soft winds above and picks up speed, not from anything within itself, but from the vast resources of the universe around us. ~W. Ralph Ward


Faith... must be enforced by reason.... When faith becomes blind it dies. ~Mahatma Gandhi


If you listed all the reasons for your faith, and all the things that make you cry, it would be essentially the same list. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve. ~Lillian Smith


Sunbeams out of the clouds
Faith out of all my doubt.
~Terri Guillemets


As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit. ~Emmanuel


In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't. ~Blaise Pascal


Faith enables persons to be persons because it lets God be God. ~Carter Lindberg


Weave in faith and God will find the thread. ~Author Unknown


A little faith will bring your soul to heaven, but a lot of faith will bring heaven to your soul. ~Author Unknown


Faith can move mountains, but don't be surprised if God hands you a shovel. ~Author Unknown


Sometimes, as practice for trying to convince myself that God exists, I try to convince my shadow that the sun exists. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. ~Friedrich Nietzsche


Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been able to move real mountains.... But it can put mountains where there are none. ~Friedrich Nietzche, Human, All Too Human, 1879


Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to. ~George Seaton


Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase. ~Martin Luther King Jr.


Faith makes the discords of the present the harmonies of the future. ~Robert Collyer


Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death. ~Author Unknown


Life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live. ~George Lancaster Spalding

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Food Quotes

Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie. ~Jim Davis


Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity. ~Voltaire


There is a lot more juice in grapefruit than meets the eye. ~Author Unknown


We think fast food is equivalent to pornography, nutritionally speaking. ~Steve Elbert


High-tech tomatoes. Mysterious milk. Supersquash. Are we supposed to eat this stuff? Or is it going to eat us? ~Annita Manning


Sex is good, but not as good as fresh, sweet corn. ~Garrison Keillor


Do vegetarians eat animal crackers? ~Author Unknown


Those who forget the pasta are condemned to reheat it. ~Author Unknown


I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o'clock in the morning. ~John Barrymore


Shipping is a terrible thing to do to vegetables. They probably get jet-lagged, just like people. ~Elizabeth Berry


No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut. ~Channing Pollock


Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat, that’s bad for you! ~Tommy Smothers


Chemicals, n: Noxious substances from which modern foods are made. ~Author Unknown


It would be nice if the Food and Drug Administration stopped issuing warnings about toxic substances and just gave me the names of one or two things still safe to eat. ~Robert Fuoss


As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it. ~Buddy Hackett


Welcome to the Church of the Holy Cabbage. Lettuce pray. ~Author Unknown


Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm. ~Ambrose Bierce


One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating. ~Luciano Pavarotti and William Wright, Pavarotti, My Own Story


After all the trouble you go to, you get about as much actual "food" out of eating an artichoke as you would from licking 30 or 40 postage stamps. ~Miss Piggy


The bagel, an unsweetened doughnut with rigor mortis. ~Beatrice & Ira Freeman


You can say this for ready-mixes - the next generation isn't going to have any trouble making pies exactly like mother used to make. ~Earl Wilson


The belly rules the mind. ~Spanish Proverb


My favorite animal is steak. ~Fran Lebowitz


When baking, follow directions. When cooking, go by your own taste. ~Laiko Bahrs


We are all dietetic sinners; only a small percent of what we eat nourishes us; the balance goes to waste and loss of energy. ~William Osler


If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate. ~Diogenes the Cynic


The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. ~G.K. Chesterton


All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast. ~John Gunther


Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first. ~Josh Billings


Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat. ~Fran Lebowitz


A bagel is a doughnut with the sin removed. ~George Rosenbaum


Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great. ~Henry IV of France


Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography. ~Robert Byrne


It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato. ~Lewis Grizzard


In Mexico we have a word for sushi: bait. ~José Simons


I don't think America will have really made it until we have our own salad dressing. Until then we're stuck behind the French, Italians, Russians and Caesarians. ~Pat McNelis


Chili represents your three stages of matter: solid, liquid, and eventually gas. ~Roseanne, "Don't Make Me Over," May 1992, spoken by character Dan Conner


If organic farming is the natural way, shouldn't organic produce just be called "produce" and make the pesticide-laden stuff take the burden of an adjective? ~Ymber Delecto


A nickel will get you on the subway, but garlic will get you a seat. ~Old New York Proverb


Large, naked raw carrots are acceptable as food only to those who lie in hutches eagerly awaiting Easter. ~Fran Lebowitz


It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician. ~Meryl Streep


Eat little, sleep sound. ~Iranian Proverb


The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


The way you cut your meat reflects the way you live. ~Confucius


Worries go down better with soup. ~Jewish Proverb


Food is an important part of a balanced diet. ~Fran Lebowitz



I eat merely to put food out of my mind. ~N.F. Simpson


I take a vitamin every day. It's called a steak. ~Leo Benvenuti and Steve Rudnick, Kicking & Screaming, 2005, spoken by the character Buck Weston


Dyspepsia is the remorse of a guilty stomach. ~A. Kerr


This is every cook's opinion -
no savory dish without an onion,
but lest your kissing should be spoiled
your onions must be fully boiled.
~Jonathan Swift


Sleep 'til you're hungry, eat 'til you're sleepy. ~Author Unknown


Chowder breathes reassurance. It steams consolation. ~Clementine Paddleford


A nickel's worth of goulash beats a five dollar can of vitamines. ~Martin H. Fischer


We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons. ~Alfred E. Newman


If God had intended us to follow recipes,
He wouldn't have given us grandmothers.
~Linda Henley


An empty belly is the best cook. ~Estonian Proverb


It is, in my view, the duty of an apple to be crisp and crunchable, but a pear should have such a texture as leads to silent consumption. ~Edward Bunyard


If we're not willing to settle for junk living, we certainly shouldn't settle for junk food. ~Sally Edwards


If junk food is the devil, then a sweet orange is as scripture. ~Terri Guillemets


Rice is born in water and must die in wine. ~Italian Proverb


There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will. ~Robert Frost


Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our anti-materialistic, otherworldly, New Age spiritual types. But if the material world is merely illusion, an honest guru should be as content with Budweiser and bratwurst as with raw carrot juice, tofu and seaweed slime. ~Edward Abbey


The breakfast slimes, angel food cake, doughnuts and coffee, white bread and gravy cannot build an enduring nation. ~Martin H. Fischer


What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child? ~Lin Yutang


Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on. ~George Bernard Shaw


A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch. ~James Beard


We plan, we toil, we suffer - in the hope of what? A camel-load of idol's eyes? The title deeds of Radio City? The empire of Asia? A trip to the moon? No, no, no, no. Simply to wake just in time to smell coffee and bacon and eggs. ~J.B. Priestly


You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars. ~Charles Kuralt


I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tuna fish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock. ~Barbara Grizzuti Harrison


Hunger is the best sauce in the world. ~Cervantes


There is no love sincerer than the love of food. ~George Bernard Shaw, "The Revolutionist's Handbook," Man and Superman


He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise. ~Henry David Thoreau


Stored away in some brain cell is the image of a long-departed aunt you haven't thought of in 30 years. Stored away in another cell is the image of a pink pony stitched on your first set of baby pajamas. All it takes to get that aunt mounted on the back of that pony is to eat a hunk of meatloaf immediately before going to bed. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead - not sick, not wounded - dead. ~Woody Allen


We load up on oat bran in the morning so we'll live forever. Then we spend the rest of the day living like there's no tomorrow. ~Lee Iacocca


Recipe: A series of step-by-step instructions for preparing ingredients you forgot to buy, in utensils you don't own, to make a dish the dog wouldn't eat. ~Author Unknown


And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent paper, gunpowder, kites and any number of other useful objects, and who have a noble history extending back 3,000 years haven't yet worked out that a pair of knitting needles is no way to capture food? ~Bill Bryson


Kissing don't last; cookery do! ~George Meredith


Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. ~Mark Twain


Did you ever stop to taste a carrot? Not just eat it, but taste it? You can't taste the beauty and energy of the earth in a Twinkie. ~Astrid Alauda


Cutting stalks at noontime. Perspiration drips to the earth. Know you that your bowl of rice each grain from hardship comes? ~Chang Chan-Pao


Condensed milk is wonderful. I don't see how they can get a cow to sit down on those little cans. ~Fred Allen


Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts! ~James Beard


Great food is like great sex. The more you have the more you want. ~Gael Greene


No, I don't take soup. You can't build a meal on a lake. ~Elsie de Wolfe (Lady Mendl)


The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found. ~Calvin Trillin


Anyhow, the hole in the doughnut is at least digestible. ~H.L. Mencken


You are what you eat. For example, if you eat garlic you're apt to be a hermit. ~Franklin P. Jones


The inventor of soda crackers has a place in hell. ~Martin H. Fischer


Plant a radish, get a radish, never any doubt. That's why I love vegetables, you know what they're about! ~Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt


Cold beer and pizza are spiritual. ~Betsy Cañas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com


We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink... ~Epicurus


He who eats alone chokes alone. ~Proverb


After dinner sit a while, and after supper walk a mile. ~English Saying


Vegetables are the food of the earth; fruit seems more the food of the heavens. ~Sepal Felicivant


Always eat grapes downward - that is eat the best grapes first; in this way there will be none better left on the bunch, and each grape will seem good down to the last. If you eat the other way, you will not have a good grape in the lot. ~Samuel Butler


The story of barbecue is the story of America: Settlers arrive on great unspoiled continent, discover wondrous riches, set them on fire and eat them. ~Vince Staten


Custard: A detestable substance produced by a malevolent conspiracy of the hen, the cow, and the cook. ~Ambrose Bierce


If you ate pasta and antipasto, would you still be hungry? ~Author Unknown


He was a very valiant man who first adventured on eating oysters. ~James I


Strawberries are the angels of the earth, innocent and sweet with green leafy wings reaching heavenward. ~Terri Guillemets


Tell me what you eat, I'll tell you who you are. ~Anthelme Brillat-Savarin


The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor. ~Chinese Proverb


Proust had his madeleines; I am devastated by the scent of yeast bread rising. ~Bert Greene


As for butter versus margarine, I trust cows more than chemists. ~Joan Gussow


An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh. ~Will Rogers




Hunger: One of the few cravings that cannot be appeased with another solution. ~Irwin Van Grove


Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. ~Mark Twain


The woman just ahead of you at the supermarket checkout has all the delectable groceries you didn't even know they carried. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


You can tell how long a couple has been married by whether they are on their first, second or third bottle of Tobasco. ~Bruce Bye


There is nothing better on a cold wintry day than a properly made pot pie. ~Craig Claiborne


You know how I feel about tacos. It's the only food shaped like a smile. A beef smile. ~Danielle Sanchez-Witzel and Michael Pennie, My Name is Earl, "South of the Border Part Uno/Dos," original airdate 7 December 2006, spoken by the character Earl Hickey


If soup isn't hot enough to make a grown man wince, it's undrinkable. ~Grey Livingston


The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the passive. ~William Ralph Inge


And, of course, the funniest food of all, kumquats. ~George Carlin


A fruit is a vegetable with looks and money. Plus, if you let fruit rot, it turns into wine, something Brussels sprouts never do. ~P.J. O'Rourke


Avoid fruit and nuts. You are what you eat. ~Jim Davis


In general, mankind, since the improvement in cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires. ~Benjamin Franklin


Soup is just a way of screwing you out of a meal. ~Jay Leno


I'm not sure what makes pepperoni so good - if it's the pepper or the oni. ~Ulrik Stephens


Happiness is a bowl of cherries and a book of poetry under a shade tree. ~Astrid Alauda


All sorrows are less with bread. ~Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote


The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again. ~George Miller


This special feeling towards fruit, its glory and abundance, is I would say universal.... We respond to strawberry fields or cherry orchards with a delight that a cabbage patch or even an elegant vegetable garden cannot provoke. ~Jane Grigson


No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention. ~Christopher Morley


When I'm at a Chinese restaurant having a hard time with chopsticks, I always hope that there's a Chinese kid at an American restaurant somewhere who's struggling mightily with a fork. ~Rick Budinich


A converted cannibal is one who, on Friday, eats only fishermen. ~Emily Lotney


Fish, to taste right, must swim three times - in water, in butter, and in wine. ~Polish Proverb


Food for thought is no substitute for the real thing. ~Walt Kelly


He that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well. ~English Proverb


The spirit cannot endure the body when overfed, but, if underfed, the body cannot endure the spirit. ~St Frances de Sales


[Breadbaking is] one of those almost hypnotic businesses, like a dance from some ancient ceremony. It leaves you filled with one of the world's sweetest smells... there is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel, that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread. ~M.F.K. Fisher, The Art of Eating


I'll bet what motivated the British to colonize so much of the world is that they were just looking for a decent meal. ~Martha Harrison


Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all. ~Harriet van Horne


A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it. ~Aldous Huxley


Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality. ~Clifton Fadiman


Life goes faster on protein. ~Martin H. Fischer


Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it. ~French Proverb


But when the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface. ~Mark Twain


There is no sight on earth more appealing than the sight of a woman making dinner for someone she loves. ~Thomas Wolfe


Soup and fish explain half the emotions of human life. ~Sydney Smith


Don't forget that the flavors of wine and cheese depend upon the types of infecting microörganisms. ~Martin H. Fischer


There is no such thing as a little garlic. ~A. Baer


Soup is liquid comfort. ~Author Unknown


To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a "home" might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation. ~Emily Post


There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


What is stronger than a mother's love? The smell of spring onions on your girl's breath. ~Four Hundred Laughs: Or, Fun Without Vulgarity, compiled and edited by John R. Kemble, 1902


Bread deals with living things, with giving life, with growth, with the seed, the grain that nurtures. It is not coincidence that we say bread is the staff of life. ~Lionel Poilane


Most of the food allergies die under garlic and onion. ~Martin H. Fischer


Great restaurants are, of course, nothing but mouth-brothels. There is no point in going to them if one intends to keep one's belt buckled. ~Frederic Raphael


It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it. ~Julia Child


As the days grow short, some faces grow long. But not mine. Every autumn, when the wind turns cold and darkness comes early, I am suddenly happy. It's time to start making soup again. ~Leslie Newman


Bread and butter, devoid of charm in the drawing-room, is ambrosia eating under a tree. ~Elizabeth Russell


My soul is dark with stormy riot,
Directly traceable to diet.
~Samuel Hoffenstein


I'm trying to eat better. And, I do feel wise after drinking tea. After eating vegetables, I just feel hungry. ~Carrie Latet


A three-year-old gave this reaction to her Christmas dinner: "I don't like the turkey, but I like the bread he ate." ~Author Unknown


Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon. ~Doug Larson


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Marriage Quotes

What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne


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, A Book of Burlesques, 1916


The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly. ~Peter De Vries


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


Marriage, n. A community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all two. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911


Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open. ~George Bernard Shaw


Newlyweds become oldyweds, and oldyweds are the reasons that families work. ~Author Unknown


Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. ~Simone Signoret


Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate. ~Barnett R. Brickner


A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time. ~Anne Taylor Fleming


Never get married in the morning, because you never know who you'll meet that night. ~Paul Hornung


More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse. ~Doug Larson


Divorce: The past tense of marriage. ~Author Unknown


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


Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. ~Katherine Hepburn


A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


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, Solitaire & Double Solitaire


There is no such cozy combination as man and wife. ~Menander


It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being. ~Benjamin Disraeli


The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through eternity. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight. ~Phyllis Diller, Phyllis Diller's Housekeeping Hints, 1966


In the opinion of the world, marriage ends all, as it does in a comedy. The truth is precisely the opposite: it begins all. ~Anne Sophie Swetchine


In a time when nothing is more certain than change, the commitment of two people to one another has become difficult and rare. Yet, by its scarcity, the beauty and value of this exchange have only been enhanced. ~Robert Sexton


An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit. ~Pliny the Younger, Letters


If you made a list of the 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, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing. ~W. Somerset Maugham


If two stand shoulder to shoulder against the gods,
Happy together, the gods themselves are helpless
Against them while they stand so.
~Maxwell Anderson


After the chills and fever of love, how nice is the 98.6º of marriage! ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for granted relationship. ~Iris Murdoch


English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. ~Author Unknown


A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year. ~Paul Sweeney


Matrimony is a process by which a grocer acquired an account the florist had. ~Francis Rodman


Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose. ~Beverley Nichols


Valentine's Day is when a lot of married men are reminded what a poor shot Cupid really is. ~Author Unknown


Love is a flower which turns into fruit at marriage. ~Finnish Proverb


A dress that zips up the back will bring a husband and wife together. ~James H. Boren


All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble. ~Raymond Hull


One of the good things that come of a true marriage is, that there is one face on which changes come without your seeing them; or rather there is one face which you can still see the same, through all the shadows which years have gathered upon it. ~George MacDonald


As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent. ~Socrates


Love seems the swiftest but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century. ~Mark Twain


Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you. ~Jean Rostand, Le Mariage, 1927


Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. ~Isadora Duncan


When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part. ~G.B. Shaw, Getting Married, 1908


A first-rate marriage is like a first-rate hotel: expensive, but worth it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


Our wedding was many years ago. The celebration continues to this day. ~Gene Perret


Here's to matrimony, the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented! ~Heinrich Heine


The reason for much matrimony is patrimony. ~Ogden Nash


I figure that the degree of difficulty in combining two lives ranks somewhere between rerouting a hurricane and finding a parking place in downtown Manhattan. ~Claire Cloninger, "When the Glass Slipper Doesn't Fit and the Silver Spoon is in Someone Else's Mouth"


A man's wife has more power over him than the state has. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals


Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it. ~Friedrich Nietzsche


Three rings of marriage are the engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering. ~Author Unknown


Though marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves 'em still two fools. ~William Congreve


Marriage ceremony: an incredible metaphysical sham of watching God and the law being dragged into the affairs of your family. ~O.C. Ogilvie



A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished. ~Zsa Zsa Gabor


One should never know too precisely whom one has married. ~Friedrich Nietzsche


Bigamy is having one husband or wife too many. Monogamy is the same. ~Oscar Wilde


Spouse: someone who'll stand by you through all the trouble you wouldn't have had if you'd stayed single. ~Author Unknown


Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. ~Author Unknown


Like good wine, marriage gets better with age - once you learn to keep a cork in it. ~Gene Perret


Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution. ~Mae West


My wife says I never listen to her. At least I think that's what she said. ~Author Unknown


I never knew what real happiness was until I got married. And by then it was too late. ~Max Kauffman


Don't smother each other. No one can grow in shade. ~Leo Buscaglia


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


I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all. ~Lord Byron


The chief reason why marriage is rarely a success is that it is contracted while the partners are insane. ~Joseph Collins


We have the greatest pre-nuptial agreement in the world. It's called love. ~Gene Perret


It takes a loose rein to keep a marriage tight. ~John Stevenson


Mistress: something between a mister and a mattress. ~Author Unknown


Mother-in-law: a woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of hers. ~Author Unknown


Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. ~Author Unknown


Wedding rings: the world's smallest handcuffs. ~Author Unknown


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


Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. ~Stephen Leacock, Literary Lapses, 1910


The most dangerous food is wedding cake. ~American Proverb


Strange to say what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition. ~Samuel Pepys


Home cooking: where many a man thinks his wife is. ~Author Unknown


Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary


Marriage is not a word - it is a sentence. ~Author Unknown


Our marriage has always been a 50-50 proposition - with the possible exception of closet space. ~Gene Perret


There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first. ~Adela Rogers St. Johns


When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. ~Sacha Guitry, Elles et toi, 1948


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, Violets and Vinegar


Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast. ~Marlene Dietrich


Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman. ~Joseph Joubert


Never strike your wife - even with a flower. ~Hindu Proverb


The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character. ~Peter Devries


The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less. ~Brendan Behan


So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three. ~Alexandre Dumas, fils


Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins. ~Langdon Mitchell


Bride, n. A woman with a fine prospect behind her. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911


If your husband and a lawyer were drowning and you had to choose, would you go to lunch or to a movie? ~Author Unknown


What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility. ~George Levinger


Love-matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar. ~Countess of Blessington


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


That quiet mutual gaze of a trusting husband and wife is like the first moment of rest or refuge from a great weariness or a great danger. ~George Eliot


The husband who doesn't tell his wife everything probably reasons that what she doesn't know won't hurt him. ~Leo J. Burke


You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. Successful marriage demands a certain death to self. ~Jerry McCant


Married life teaches one invaluable lesson: to think of things far enough ahead not to say them. ~Jefferson Machamer


It's easy to understand love at first sight, but how do we explain love after two people have been looking at each other for years? ~Author Unknown


The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. ~Honore de Balzac, The Physiology of Marriage


Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper. ~Scottish Proverb


Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means. ~Henny Youngman


It's a nasty divorce when they can't agree on how to divvy up the His and Hers towels. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast. ~Gabriel García Márquez


She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook. ~Tommy Manville


By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. ~Socrates


A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. ~Ruth Bell Graham


Pity all newlyweds. She cooks something nice for him, and he brings her flowers, and they kiss and think: How easy marriage is. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


One man's folly is another man's wife. ~Helen Rowland


Women hope men will change after marriage but they don't; men hope women won't change but they do. ~Bettina Arndt, Private Lives, 1986


Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses. ~English Proverb


Wedlock is the deep, deep peace of the double bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise lounge. ~Mrs Patrick Campbell


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


A perfect marriage is one in which "I'm sorry" is said just often enough. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


Marriage must constantly fight against a monster which devours everything: routine. ~Honore de Balzac


Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too. ~H.L. Mencken


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, Autobiography, 1969


Many marriages are simply working partnerships between businessmen and housekeepers. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


The highest happiness on earth is marriage. ~William Lyon Phelps


A fellow ought to save a few of the long evenings he spends with his girl till after they're married. ~Kin Hubbard


Two mothers-in-law. ~Lord John Russell, on being asked what he would consider a proper punishment for bigamy


Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil. ~Byron, Hours of Idleness


A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing. ~Joey Adams


A question asked in a Surrey school exam went: "Why do cocks crow early every morning?" A twelve-year-old replied: "My dad says they have to make the most of it while the hens are asleep." ~Quoted in the Peterborough Daily Telegraph, 1983


A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married. ~H.L. Mencken


Marriage is a meal where the soup is better than the dessert. ~Austin O'Malley


One shouldn't be too inquisitive in life
Either about God's secrets or one's wife.
~Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales


Most wives think of their husbands as bumbling braggarts with whom they happen to be in love. ~Jackie Gleason


For two people in a marriage to live together day after day is unquestionably the one miracle the Vatican has overlooked. ~Bill Cosby, Love and Marriage


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


Marriage is a ghastly public confession of a strictly private intention. ~Ian Hay


Some marriages break up, and some do not, and in our world you can usually explain the former better than the latter. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


My mother said it was simple to keep a man, you must be a maid in the living room, a cook in the kitchen and a whore in the bedroom. I said I'd hire the other two and take care of the bedroom bit. ~Jerry Hall


The marriage state, with or without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life. ~Richard Steele, The Spectator


Adultery is the application of democracy to love. ~Henry Louis Mencken, "Sententiae," A Book of Burlesques, 1920


A dog is much like a married man, obeying his master's voice for the sake of his master's touch. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short. ~Andre Maurois


Marriage: A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other for ninety-nine years, or until death do them join. ~Elbert Hubbard


In the early years, you fight because you don't understand each other. In the later years, you fight because you do. ~Joan Didion


Marriage isn't all that it's cracked up to be. Let me tell you, honestly. Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce. ~Larry Gelbart, M*A*S*H, "Bulletin Board," original airdate 14 January 1975, spoken by the character Frank Burns


When a girl marries she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one. ~Helen Rowland


In the long run wives are to be paid in a peculiar coin - consideration for their feelings. As it usually turns out this is an enormous, unthinkable inflation few men will remit, or if they will, only with a sense of being overcharged. ~Elizabeth Hardwick, Seduction and Betrayal, 1974


Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you. ~Helen Rowland


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, Mary, Mary, 1960


Marriage changes passion - suddenly you're in bed with a relative. ~Author Unknown


It is not marriage that fails; it is people that fail. All that marriage does is to show people up. ~Harry Emerson Fosdick


A wedding is just like a funeral except that you get to smell your own flowers. ~Grace Hansen


The view that a peptic ulcer may be the hole in a man's stomach through which he crawls to escape from his wife has fairly wide acceptance. ~John Allan Dalrymple Anderson


Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner. ~Charles Caleb Colton


I've been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out. ~Lee Grant


Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid. ~Harlan Miller


The man who never in his life
Has washed the dishes with his wife
Or polished up the silver plate -
He still is largely celibate.
~Christopher Morley, Washing the Dishes


A love that lasts for twenty years may be better than love, but it isn't love. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


God created sex. Priests created marriage. ~Voltaire


To avoid mistakes and regrets, always consult your wife before engaging in a flirtation. ~E.W. Howe


The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret. ~Henny Youngman


Marriage is a mistake every man should make. ~George Jessel


I guess walking slow getting married is because it gives you time to maybe change your mind. ~Virginia Cary Hudson, O Ye Jigs & Juleps, 1962 (Thanks, Charlene)


A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. ~Helen Rowland


My husband and I divorced over religious differences. He thought he was God, and I didn't. ~Author Unknown


Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them. ~Ogden Nash


One thing you learn in a long marriage is how many sneezes to wait before saying, "Bless you." ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Husbands are like fires. They go out when unattended. ~Zsa Zsa Gabor


The concern that some women show at the absence of their husbands, does not arise from their not seeing them and being with them, but from their apprehension that their husbands are enjoying pleasures in which they do not participate, and which, from their being at a distance, they have not the power of interrupting. ~Michel de Montaigne


But married once, a man is stak'd or pown'd, and cannot graze beyond his own hedge. ~Philip Massinger, Fatal Dowry, 1632


Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy. ~François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld


Why do married men gain weight while bachelors don't? Bachelors go to the refrigerator, see nothing they want, then go to bed. Married guys go to the bed, see nothing they want, then go to the refrigerator. ~Author Unknown


I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night. ~Marie Corelli


Women seem to be all right on bargains till it comes to picking out a husband. ~Kin Hubbard


After a few years of marriage, a man can look right at a woman without seeing her - and a woman can see right through a man without looking at him. ~Helen Rowland


Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan. ~Quentin Crisp, "The Art of Celibacy"




Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age; and old men's nurses. ~Francis Bacon, "Of Marriage and Single Life," Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral, 1625


Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage." ~Herbert Spencer


A man without a wife is like a vase without flowers. ~African Proverb


A woman ought to look up to her husband, if only a half-inch. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


A woman who loves her husband is merely paying her bills. A woman who loves her lover gives alms to the poor. ~Paul-Jean Toulet


Love requires a willingness to die; marriage, a willingness to live. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive. ~Juvenal, Satires


We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years. ~Nick Faldo


Men never know how tired they are till their wives sit them down for a nice long talk. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


The reason they're called the opposite sex is because every time you think you have your wife fooled - it's just the opposite! ~Walter Winchell


By the time you're his
Shivering and sighing,
And he vows his passion is
Infinite, undying
Lady, make a note of this:
One of you is lying.
~Dorothy Parker


Originally marriage meant the sale of a woman by one man to another; now most women sell themselves though they have no intention of delivering the goods listed in the bill of sale. ~Robert Graves


If I ever marry, it will be on a sudden impulse - as a man shoots himself. ~H.L. Mencken


My wife tells me she doesn't care what I do when I'm away, as long as I'm not enjoying it. ~Lee Trevino


To keep your marriage brimming,
With love in the loving cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it;
Whenever you're right, shut up.
~Ogden Nash


"What's for dinner?" is the only question many husbands ask their wives, and the only one to which they care about the answer. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


Most marriages can survive "better or worse." The tester is all the years of "exactly the same." ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages. ~Barry Goldwater


People do not marry people, not real ones anyway; they marry what they think the person is; they marry illusions and images. The exciting adventure of marriage is finding out who the partner really is. ~James L. Framo, "Explorations in Marital & Family Therapy"


Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. ~H.L. Mencken


I dreamed of a wedding of elaborate elegance,
A church filled with family and friends.
I asked him what kind of a wedding he wished for,
He said one that would make me his wife.
~Author Unknown


No man expects a great deal from marriage. He is quite satisfied if his wife is a good cook, a good valet, an attentive audience, and a patient nurse. ~Author Unknown


Think not because you are now wed
That all your courtship's at an end.
~Antonio Hurtado de Mendoza


Alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse. ~Arthur Baer


I came from a big family. As a matter of fact, I never got to sleep alone until I was married. ~Lewis Grizzard


There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage. ~Martin Luther


Alimony - The ransom that the happy pay to the devil. ~H.L. Mencken, "Sententiae," A Book of Burlesques, 1920


If marriage were outlawed, only outlaws would have in-laws. ~Author Unknown


Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do. ~Zsa Zsa Gabor


I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again. ~Noel Coward, 1956


Thus Dante's motto over Inferno applies with equal force to marriage: "Ye who enter here leave all hope behind." ~Emma Goldman, Marriage and Love


Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded. Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt. ~Edna Ferber, Show Boat, 1926


"I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence? ~Author Unknown


Affairs are just as disillusioning as marriage, and much less restful. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness. ~Virginie des Rieux, Epigrams


Wedlock is a padlock. ~John Ray, English Proverbs


The marriage of convenience has this to recommend it: we are better judges of convenience than we are of love. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight. ~Samuel Lichtenberg


The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once. ~H.V. Prochnow


Marriage is like pleading guilty to an indefinite sentence. Without parole. ~John Mortimer, The Trials of Rumpole


One of the best things about marriage is that it gets young people to bed at a decent hour. ~M.M. Musselman


Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest. ~Irwin Corey


If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. ~Katharine Houghton Hepburn


The total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution. ~Bertrand Russell, Marriage and Morals


Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State- and church-begotten weed, marriage? ~Emma Goldman, Marriage and Love


What we love about love is the fever, which marriage puts to bed and cures. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. ~William Penn


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, Marriage and Love


Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit. ~Billy Connolly


Marriage is nature's way of ensuring that a woman picks up some mothering experience before she has her first child. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night. ~St. Jerome, Attack on Jovinian


[M]y 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, Tales of the City, 1978


The way to hold a husband is to keep him a little jealous; the way to lose him is to keep him a little more jealous. ~H.L. Mencken


A great poet has seldom sung of lawfully wedded happiness, but of free and secret love; and in this respect, too the time is coming when there will no longer be one standard of morality for poetry and another for life. To anyone tender of conscience, the ties formed by a free connection are stronger than the legal ones. ~Ellen Key, quoted by Sprading in Liberty and the Great Libertarians


Any married man should forget his mistakes - no use two people remembering the same thing. ~Duane Dewel


Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry. ~Rita Rudner


Then marriage may be said to be past in all quietnesse, when the wife is blind, and the husband deafe. ~Thomas Heywood, "Dialogues"


Come, let's be a comfortable couple and take care of each other! How glad we shall be, that we have somebody we are fond of always, to talk to and sit with. ~Charles Dickens


A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. ~Michel de Montaigne, Essays


Getting married is a lot like getting into a tub of hot water. After you get used to it, it ain't so hot. ~Minnie Pearl


Love is grand; divorce a hundred grand. ~Author Unknown


It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time. ~Balzac, Physiologie du mariage, 1829


A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors. ~Benjamin Franklin


And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living! ~Tertullian


The surest way to be alone is to get married. ~Gloria Steinem


[W]hen you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. ~Nora Ephron, When Harry Met Sally


It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married. ~Robert Frost


I never even believed in divorce until after I got married. ~Diane Ford


Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the common-sensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage. ~Gloria Steinem


Courtship to marriage is as a very witty prologue to a very dull play. ~William Congreve, The Old Bachelor, 1693


If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books. ~Alan King


They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake. ~Alexander Pope, The Wife of Bath, 1713


Marriage is like a phone call in the night: first the ring, and then you wake up. ~Evelyn Hendrickson


When the one man loves the one woman and the one woman loves the one man, the very angels desert heaven and come and sit in that house and sing for joy. ~The Brahma Sutras


Love is one long sweet dream, and marriage is the alarm clock. ~Author Unknown


If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry. ~Anton Chekov


The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle. ~Heinrich Heine


The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then marry him. ~Cher


If you haven't seen your wife smile at a traffic cop, you haven't seen her smile her prettiest. ~Kin Hubbard


Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in? ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Representative Men, 1850


When a man opens the car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife. ~Prince Philip


You should never kiss a girl unless you have enough bucks to buy her a big ring and her own VCR, 'cause she'll want to have videos of the wedding. ~Jim, age 10


It gives me a headache to think about that stuff. I'm just a kid. I don't need that kind of trouble. ~Kenny, age 7, when asked if it's better to be single or married


Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder. ~Thornton Wilder


No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single. ~H.L. Mencken


Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance. ~Michel de Montaigne


I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage, and guarantee he'd be dead within the year. ~Bette Davis


Men should keep their eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards. ~Madeleine de Scudery


Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it. ~Josh Billings


Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does. ~Groucho Marx


Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married? ~Barbra Streisand


No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married. ~Benjamin Disraeli


In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar, a custom which is still continued. ~Helen Rowland, Reflections of a Bachelor Girl, 1909


He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of. ~Mae West


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


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




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Family Quotes

I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich. ~Dan Wilcox and Thad Mumford, "Identity Crisis," M*A*S*H


It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller


The family is a haven in a heartless world. ~Attributed to Christopher Lasch


Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation. ~Margaret Mead


Families are like fudge - mostly sweet with a few nuts. ~Author Unknown


The thing about family disasters is that you never have to wait long before the next one puts the previous one into perspective. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


If you don't believe in ghosts, you've never been to a family reunion. ~Ashleigh Brilliant


We all grow up with the weight of history on us. Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they do in the spiraling chains of knowledge hidden in every cell of our bodies. ~Shirley Abbott


Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space. ~Evan Esar


A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. ~Ogden Nash


The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together. ~Erma Bombeck


When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses. ~Joyce Brothers


In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry. ~Margaret Laurence


Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them. ~Desmond Tutu


An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship. ~Spanish Proverb


Blood's thicker than water, and when one's in trouble
Best to seek out a relative's open arms.
~Author Unknown


The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind. ~Thomas Jefferson, 1813


To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there. ~Barbara Bush


When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them. ~George Bernard Shaw



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Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one. ~Jane Howard


In a houseful of toddlers and pets, you can start out having a bad day, but you keep getting detoured. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


There is no cure for laziness but a large family helps. ~Herbert Prochnov


Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go by any rules. They're not like aches or wounds; they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald



Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family. Most of us would give our own life for the survival of a family member, yet we lead our daily life too often as if we take our family for granted. ~Paul Pearshall


The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness. ~Nancy Mitford


The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family. ~Thomas Jefferson


Sometimes our hearts get tangled
And our souls a little off-kilter
Friends and family can set us right
And help guide us back to the light.
~Sera Christann


And thank you for a house full of people I love. Amen. ~Terri Guillemets


The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to. ~Dodie Smith


Family life is a bit like a runny peach pie - not perfect but who's complaining? ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


The great gift of family life is to be intimately acquainted with people you might never even introduce yourself to, had life not done it for you. ~Kendall Hailey, The Day I Became an Autodidact


In time of test, family is best. ~Burmese Proverb


Family is just accident.... They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family, they just are. ~Marsha Norman


The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works is the family. ~Lee Iacocca


Friends are God's apology for relations. ~Hugh Kingsmill


They... threw themselves into the interests of the rest, but each plowed his or her own furrow. Their thoughts, their little passions and hopes and desires, all ran along separate lines. Family life is like this - animated, but collateral. ~Rose Macaulay


What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life - to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories. ~George Eliot


At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable. ~Mark V. Olsen and Will Sheffer, Big Love, "Easter"


If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct. ~Letty Cottin Pogrebin


In a household of toddlers and pets, we discover this rule of thumb about happy families - that they are least two-thirds incontinent. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us to become our best while looking our worst. ~Marge Kennedy


The family is one of nature's masterpieces. ~George Santayana, The Life of Reason


We cannot destroy kindred: our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break. ~Marquise de Sévigné


The advantage of growing up with siblings is that you become very good at fractions. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family. ~Anthony Brandt


There's an awful lot of blood around that water is thicker than. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future. ~Gail Lumet Buckley


If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that "Members not Present" and "Subjects Discussed" were one and the same. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore


I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap. ~Fred Allen


The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born. ~Pearl S. Buck

Summer Quotes

I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music. It is a fire that solitude presses against my lips. ~Violette Leduc, Mad in Pursuit


Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. ~Russel Baker


A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken. ~James Dent


If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance. ~Bern Williams


Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare,
And left the flushed print in a poppy there.
~Francis Thompson


To see the Summer Sky
Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie -
True Poems flee.
~Emily Dickinson


What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade. ~Gertrude Jekyll


In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer quite the other way
I have to go to bed by day.
~Robert Louis Stevenson


In June, as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them. ~Aldo Leopold


I question not if thrushes sing,
If roses load the air;
Beyond my heart I need not reach
When all is summer there.
~John Vance Cheney


Oh, the summer night
Has a smile of light
And she sits on a sapphire throne.
~Barry Cornwall


In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. ~Albert Camus


There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart. ~Celia Thaxter


The summer night is like a perfection of thought. ~Wallace Stevens


In summer, the song sings itself. ~William Carlos Williams


Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability. ~Sam Keen


Summer has set in with its usual severity. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge


People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy. ~Anton Chekhov


A life without love is like a year without summer. ~Swedish Proverb


Press close, bare-bosomed Night! Press close, magnetic,
nourishing Night!
Night of south winds! Night of the large, few stars!
Still, nodding Night! Mad, naked, Summer Night!
~Walt Whitman


Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you. ~Erma Bombeck


The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco. ~Author unknown, commonly misattributed to Mark Twain


Do what we can, summer will have its flies. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Heat, ma'am! it was so dreadful here, that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones. ~Sydney Smith, Lady Holland's Memoir


Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time. ~John Lubbock


No price is set on the lavish summer;
June may be had by the poorest comer.
~James Russell Lowell, The Vision of Sir Launfal, 1848


Summer afternoon - summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. ~Henry James


Love is to the heart what the summer is to the farmer's year - it brings to harvest all the loveliest flowers of the soul. ~Author Unknown


Then followed that beautiful season... Summer....
Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape
Lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world. ~Ada Louise Huxtable


This was one of those perfect New England days in late summer where the spirit of autumn takes a first stealing flight, like a spy, through the ripening country-side, and, with feigned sympathy for those who droop with August heat, puts her cool cloak of bracing air about leaf and flower and human shoulders. ~Sarah Orne Jewett


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