Famous Quotes

"I think a lot of people who feel as though they desperately want to be married oftentimes simply desperately want to have a wedding."

Elizabeth Gilbert on Wedding

More quotes about Wedding

• "The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day, but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife."

  Barbara de Angelis on Wedding

• "My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy if not, you'll become a philosopher."

  Socrates on Wedding

• "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 on Wedding

• "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury."

  Groucho Marx on Wedding

• "Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness."

  Oliver Wendell Holmes on Wedding

More quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert

• "What I think is amazing is not that 85% of people who get married under the age of 25 get divorced, it's that 15% of them stay together. How did they manage to pull that off? You almost can't wait too long. It's the single simplest measure to predict divorce."

• "I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they can't find me and I can spend all day reading or walking all alone, in silence, eight thousand miles away from everyone. All alone and unreachable in a foreign country is one my most favorite possible things to be."

• "There are times when the only access I have to the truest person that I am is when I'm alone and trying to solve a sentence. It's exciting, even when it's frustrating, even when I can't do it right."

• "What I think is amazing is not that 85% of people who get married under the age of 25 get divorced, it's that 15% of them stay together. How did they manage to pull that off? You almost can't wait too long. It's the single simplest measure to predict divorce."

• "Nobody until very recently would have thought that their husband was supposed to be their best friend, confidante, intellectual soul mate, co-parent, inspiration."