Marriage Quotes

"A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted."

"A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it."

"A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after."

"A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends."

"A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises."

"A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost."

"Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage."

"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."

"After a while in marriage, it doesn't work anymore. There is something missing, there is something wrong. There are few marriages that stay alive forever. We like something, and after a while, we hate what we used to love."

"After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her."

"All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership."

"All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little."

"An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know."

"As a former resident with strong personal and ministry ties to the North Star State, I pray that the good people of Minnesota will show their support for God's definition of marriage, between a man and a woman."

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

"Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives."

"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."

"Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there."

"Books and marriage go ill together."

"Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient."

"Does God feel like that same-sex marriage could happen? I don't think anybody who has a connection to God and God's understanding and depth of compassion who's gonna say 'no.'"

"Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without."

"Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn't know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn't even smell like smoke."

"Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner."

"Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands."

"First, I was opposed to gay marriage because it seemed like one more way that gays were wanting to assimilate. When I realized the Christian right was so opposed to it, as well as tyrannical governments in Africa and Russia, I thought, 'It must be a good thing to fight for.'"

"For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end."

"Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye."

"Have you ever heard of a good marriage growing in front of the cameras?"

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

"How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive."

"Husbands are like fires - they go out when they're left unattended."

"I am against marriage, and I don't give a fig for society."

"I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman."

"I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them."

"I can look back at different times in my life when I felt I could not find my way out of whatever it was. I'm not necessarily talking about marriage, but I wanted to pack it in. I wanted to disappear. A lot of that has to do with being in the public eye."

"I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married."

"I don't have to get married myself in order to campaign on behalf of gay marriage."

"I don't know about marriage as much as I do know that I'd be a great father."

"I don't think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be."

"I feel very deeply about the need to respect and tolerate people of different social - or sexual orientation. But at the same time, I believe marriage should be preserved as an institution for one man and one woman."

"I have a lot of skepticism about marriage and monogamy."

"I have a terrific marriage, but unlike a lot of relationships where they ebb and flow, no matter what happens you fall deeper and deeper in love every day. It's kind of the best thing that can happen to you. It's thrilling."

"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."

"I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily."

"I love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific."

"I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up."