The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth, and one of the shortest lived. (Harper's Magazine, 1949)
Bernard De VotoMarriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
Honore De BalzacCompromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy
Phyllis McGinleyI once read that in any good marriage, one partner is the gardener and the other is the garden. We take it in turns to be either.
Meryl StreepMarriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.
William O DouglasMy future plans - Marriage, a villa and ten kids.
Peta WilsonThe truth is you can have a great marriage, but there are still no guarantees.
Demi MooreLove and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage.
Sammy CahnThe more you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes.
Amy GrantBroken marriages, conflicts of loyalty, the problems of everyday life fall away as one faces up to [Jeff] Thomson.
Mike BrearleyMarriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
Samuel ButlerMarriage is not about age; it's about finding the right person.
Sophia BushMarriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.
J B PriestleyShe's my wife, not my girlfriend. Maybe for her it is better. For me, she's still the same girl, just my wife [on if marriage has changed him!]
Nikolay DavydenkoMarriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.
P G WodehouseMen who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they have experienced pain and bought jewellery
Rita RudnerI've had lots of offers of marriage and from women wanting to have my kids.
Gareth GatesThus Dante's motto over Inferno applies with equal force to marriage: 'Ye who enter here leave all hope behind.'
Emma GoldmanAfter marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin; they just can't face each other, but still they stay together.
Hemant JoshiAfter 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 RowlandAs to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
SocratesMarriage takes work, but so does living alone. One of the things you have to work at is to have enough human resources and to plan ahead.
Barbara FeldonMarriage is an adventure, like going to war.
Gilbert Keith ChestertonIn marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.
William PennWhen David [Arquette] and I got engaged we started therapy together. I'd heard that the first year of marriage is the hardest, so we decided to work through all that stuff early.
Courtney CoxThere are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.
Norman MailerA marriage in which no quarrelling at all takes place may well be one that is dead or dying from emotional undernourishment [Dammed if you do quarrel, damned if you don't!]
Flora DavisMany a good hanging prevents a bad marriage
William ShakespeareMarriage is an institution and that's where a couple finish up.
Les DawsonWe are clear that the interpretation I have set out in this statement is correct [on saying Charles marriage to Camilla was legal]
Lord FalconerLove is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
Boris PasternakI'm still waiting for him to ask [on boyfriend Andy Scott-Lee]. We have talked about marriage and it's definitely on the horizon.
Michelle HeatonMore marriages might survive if the partners realised that sometimes the better comes after the worse.
Doug LarsonMarriage is the waste-paper basket of the emotions
Sidney WebbLove, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen RowlandMarriage is the grave or tomb of wit
Margaret CavendishHe's the one guy I can credit for making me think about marriage in a whole new light, because every guy I've had in my life has either lied or cheated me financially or business-wise, or taken advantaged of me. [On Jordan - Jane September 2004]
Christina AguileraIn Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.
Rita RudnerAfter three failed marriages, I know what it's like to be replaced.
Terry BradshawA woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.
George EliotThere's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.
Clint EastwoodSometimes I bust out and do things so permanent. Like tattoos and marriage.
Drew BarrymoreI support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us.
Kinky FriedmanThere may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
Rainer Maria RilkeMarriage is like life in this - that it is a field of battle and not a bed of roses.
Robert Louis StevensonThe life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by marriage, but increasingly upon the corporation in which he spends the most alert hours of his best years.
C Wright MillsI prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage.
Maria CallasThe life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by marriage, but increasingly upon the corporation in which he spends the most alert hours of his best years.
C Wright MillsMarriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.
Barbara De AngelisMarriage is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
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