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

The truth is you can have a great marriage, but there are still no guarantees.
Demi Moore

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.
Sydney Smith

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

On her marriage breakup with Liam: I can honestly say that life is fantastic now. I'm so happy that all the mess I used to have to deal with is not my mess anymore.
Patsy Kensit

Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
Erma Bombeck

Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.
Bette Davis

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

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

Marriage isn't a word...it's a sentence!
King Vidor

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

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.
Emma Goldman

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

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

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

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

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

Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.
Douglas William Jerrold

[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

Marriage is a wonderful invention; but, then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
Billy Connelly

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 was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.
Phyllis McGinley

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

Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they have experienced pain and bought jewellery
Rita Rudner

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

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

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 our last, best chance to grow up.
Joseph Barth

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

Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit
Margaret Cavendish

Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.
Jackie Kennedy

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
Johnny Carson

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

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

Thus Dante's motto over Inferno applies with equal force to marriage: 'Ye who enter here leave all hope behind.'
Emma Goldman

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

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

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

I've had lots of offers of marriage and from women wanting to have my kids.
Gareth Gates

This relationship is going to be built on trust. [On marriage to Donald Trump, that ended just before she would have been guaranteed a healthy percentage of his fortune]
Marla Maples

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

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage
William Shakespeare

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

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Voltaire

Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
Ambrose Bierce

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

Marriage is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
Lisa Hoffman

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

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



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