Marriage Quotes

"In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued."

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

"Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank."

"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."

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

"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."

"Yes, I am seeking a husband. As soon as the right man asks me, I shall say, 'It is not good for a woman to live alone.'"

"Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation."

"It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband."

"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."

"It was a perfect marriage. She didn't want to and he couldn't."

"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."

"We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations - we're doing everything we can to keep our marriage together."

"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."

"Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage."

"If women will not accept marriage with subjection, nor men proffer it without, there is, there can be, no alternative. The women who will not be ruled must live without marriage. And during this transition period... single women make comfortable and attractive homes for themselves."

"More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed."

"I was against gay marriage until I realized I didn't have to get one."

"Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome."

"I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman."

"May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise."

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

"Marriage, in its truest sense, is a partnership of equals, with neither exercising dominion over the other, but, rather, with each encouraging and assisting the other in whatever responsibilities and aspirations he or she might have."

"Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes."

"Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable."

"There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them."

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

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

"Never stay in a bad marriage, and don't hang around with psycho coke fiends."

"When I went to college, as much as my parents emphasized academic achievement, they emphasized marriage even more. They told me that the most eligible women marry young to get a 'good man' before they are all taken."

"In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other."

"We are properly ready for marriage when we are strong enough to embrace a life of frustration."

"It is the duty of every thoughtful Indian not to marry. In case he is helpless in regard to marriage, he should abstain from sexual intercourse with his wife."

"I think one reason for a successful marriage is laughter. I think laughter gets you through the rough moments in a marriage."

"Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation."

"Marriage counselors in particular all strongly recommend divorcees try to understand their role in a divorce before re-marrying. Statistics show if you re-marry before you've clearly seen things from the biter's point of view - you're re-bounded to fail again!"

"The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny."

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

"Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage."

"The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties."

"The culmination of a long struggle was 2013, which could clearly be labeled the Year of the Gay. State after state had legalized gay marriage, despite intense opposition from the religious right."

"Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself."

"That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds."

"Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become."

"When people say 'marriage' to me... It's always a means to an end. Everyone's so in a rush to define the relationship."

"Why is marriage the pinnacle for everyone? People get married for the wrong reasons. We need to start looking at different packages, whether it's living together, or being with six partners, or dedicating your life to taking care of flowers."

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

"We want our marriage to be a triumph, not a tragedy."

"The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman."

"Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory."