Marriage is an institution and that's where a couple finish up.
Les DawsonThere is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
C S LewisMarriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking.
Marvin GayeOne should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
Honore De BalzacMarriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder. (The Merchant of Yonkers 1939)
Thornton WilderMarriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
Samuel ButlerThere 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 MailerThe more you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes.
Amy GrantA good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Honore De BalzacOn 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 KensitMarriage 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 TaylorMarriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
VoltaireOn marriage to Madonna: 'We are not that flash, me or the missus. In fact, we are quite low-maintenance.'
Guy RitchieI am very glad you have heard of it, anyway [when asked about his marriage]
Prince CharlesBoth my marriages were failures! Number one departed, and number two stayed
Gustav MahlerI'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 HeatonHis designs were strictly honourable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.
Henry FieldingMarriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.
Thomas Love PeacockBroken marriages, conflicts of loyalty, the problems of everyday life fall away as one faces up to [Jeff] Thomson.
Mike BrearleyAfter three failed marriages, I know what it's like to be replaced.
Terry BradshawLove is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
Boris PasternakA happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short
Andre MauroisTo keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.
Ogden NashThere's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.
Clint EastwoodMarriage 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 FeldonDad 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[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 PrescottMany a good hanging prevents a bad marriage
William ShakespeareA 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 DavisMarriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
Honore De BalzacBefore marriage, a man will lay down his life for you; after marriage he won't even lay down his newspaper.
Helen RowlandWhen 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 CoxSometimes I bust out and do things so permanent. Like tattoos and marriage.
Drew BarrymoreFor some of us, watching a miniseries that lasts longer than most marriages is not easy.
Erma BombeckMen who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they have experienced pain and bought jewellery
Rita RudnerMarriage hasn't been my thing. But gay people, knock yourselves out!
Ben AffleckMarriage is the grave or tomb of wit
Margaret CavendishI 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 the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three
Washington IrvingShe'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 DavydenkoA successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
Andre MauroisMy future plans - Marriage, a villa and ten kids.
Peta WilsonAfter 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 RowlandHe'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 AguileraOn 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 GoldmanIn Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.
Rita RudnerMarriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
Ambrose BierceBy 1975 sexual feeling and marriage will have nothing to do with each other.
John Langdon-daviesWhen 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 FieldingMost 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
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