Marriage Quotes

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It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can;
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity
George Bernard Shaw

It's a marriage. If I had to choose between my wife and my putter, well, I'd miss her.
Gary Player

There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.
Joseph Barth

My motto is if you're not happy at home, you're not happy anywhere else, so Jason and our marriage come first.
Angie Harmon

[I ask for] privacy space and time to allow us to try to re-build our marriage [on his marriage after revelations of an affair with a secretary]
John Prescott

Dad had said he thought marriage and the legal recognition of relationships was a matter for individual states to decide. He made it clear that he personally did not support the Federal Marriage Amendment.
Mary Cheney

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

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

Broken marriages, conflicts of loyalty, the problems of everyday life fall away as one faces up to [Jeff] Thomson.
Mike Brearley

Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder. (The Merchant of Yonkers 1939)
Thornton Wilder

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 Voto

Yesterday Senator John Kerry changed his mind and now supports the ban on gay marriages. I'm telling you this guy has more positions than Paris Hilton.
David Letterman

I will not remarry. I'm so grateful for the marriages that I have had. I wouldn't be who I am today if I hadn't had those.
Cheryl Tiegs

Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage.
Sammy Cahn

Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.
William O Douglas

I support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us.
Kinky Friedman

For every marriage then is best in tune, When that the wife is May, the husband June.
Rowland Watkyns

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.
Pope John Paul II

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
Honore De Balzac

Marriage 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 Angelis

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

After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin; they just can't face each other, but still they stay together.
Hemant Joshi

He'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 Aguilera

I'm angry because she was supposed to marry me! [when asked what he thought of Prince Charles' impending marriage to Camilla Parker Bowles]
Bernard Laporte

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.
J P Getty

I'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 Heaton

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
Thomas Moore

Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy
Phyllis McGinley

Marriage is like life in this - that it is a field of battle and not a bed of roses.
Robert Louis Stevenson

She'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 Davydenko

For some of us, watching a miniseries that lasts longer than most marriages is not easy.
Erma Bombeck

I 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 Streep

Marriage is an institution and that's where a couple finish up.
Les Dawson

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

On marriage to Madonna: 'We are not that flash, me or the missus. In fact, we are quite low-maintenance.'
Guy Ritchie

Take care of him. And make him feel important. And if you can do that, you'll have a happy and wonderful marriage. Like two out of every ten couples.
Neil Simon

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

Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit
Margaret Cavendish

Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.
Bill Cosby

They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.
Clint Eastwood

A cynic should never marry an idealist. For the cynic, marriage represents the welcome end of romantic life, with all its agony and ecstasy. But for the idealist, it is only the beginning.
Julie Burchill

Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.
J B Priestley

More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
Rainer Maria Rilke

On marriage to Jennifer Aniston: I'm performing naked cartwheels. I'm very excited.
Brad Pitt

Marriage hath in it less of beauty but more of safety, than the single life; it hath more care, but less danger, it is more merry, and more sad; it is fuller of sorrows, and fuller of joys; it lies under more burdens, but it is supported by all the strengths of love and charity, and those burdens are delightful.
Bishop Jeremy Taylor

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

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.
Jean De La Bruyere

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



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