Marriage Quotes

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

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

We are clear that the interpretation I have set out in this statement is correct [on saying Charles marriage to Camilla was legal]
Lord Falconer

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

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

Marriage is a great institution.
Elizabeth Taylor

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

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

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

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

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
Andre Maurois

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

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 not about age; it's about finding the right person.
Sophia Bush

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

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

I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage.
Maria Callas

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
Socrates

Marriages are said to be made in Heaven, which may be why they don't work here on Earth.
Thomas Szasz

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

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

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Voltaire

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

American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them.
Florence King

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three
Washington Irving

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

On marriage to ex Beverly Hills 90210 star Shannen Doherty: I was never really sober through that whole relationship. I was out of my f***ing soul.
Ashley Hamilton

Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers.
Richard Pryor

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

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

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

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

An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.
Bette Davis

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



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