Marriage Quotes

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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Honore De Balzac

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

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

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

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

Sometimes I bust out and do things so permanent. Like tattoos and marriage.
Drew Barrymore

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

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton

There 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 Mailer

Both my marriages were failures! Number one departed, and number two stayed
Gustav Mahler

His designs were strictly honourable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.
Henry Fielding

My first marriage was not happy. I married him because I was impressed that he knew which wines to order and how to leave his visiting card. Ridiculous reasons.
Jean Seberg

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

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

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

Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit
Margaret Cavendish

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.
Marilyn Monroe

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Voltaire

Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
Boris Pasternak

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

I am very glad you have heard of it, anyway [when asked about his marriage]
Prince Charles

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

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

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.
William Penn

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Mignon McLaughlin

Bruce [Willis] has been great about everything [on his marriage to Demi Moore]
Ashton Kutcher

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

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

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 isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.
P G Wodehouse

After three failed marriages, I know what it's like to be replaced.
Terry Bradshaw

Marriage is the waste-paper basket of the emotions
Sidney Webb

My future plans - Marriage, a villa and ten kids.
Peta Wilson

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

Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking.
Marvin Gaye

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

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

Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.
Thomas Love Peacock

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.
Rita Rudner

Marriage hasn't been my thing. But gay people, knock yourselves out!
Ben Affleck

There is a time for all things - except marriage my dear.
Thomas Chatterton

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

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

A 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 Davis

Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
Samuel Butler

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.
Henry Fielding

Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage
John Le Carre

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

The 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 Mills

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



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