There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
Rainer Maria RilkeMarriage is a mistake every man should make.
George JesselAfter marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin; they just can't face each other, but still they stay together.
Hemant JoshiI prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage.
Maria CallasMarriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
Ambrose BierceMarriages are said to be made in Heaven, which may be why they don't work here on Earth.
Thomas SzaszIn marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.
William Penn[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 PrescottAs to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
SocratesAny intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.
Isadora DuncanOn marriage to Jennifer Aniston: I'm performing naked cartwheels. I'm very excited.
Brad PittMarriage isn't a word...it's a sentence!
King VidorMarriage is our last, best chance to grow up.
Joseph BarthMy 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 SebergA successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
Andre MauroisLove is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
Boris PasternakMarriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.
William O DouglasOn 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 GoldmanThe 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 MillsMarriage 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 AngelisThere is a time for all things - except marriage my dear.
Thomas ChattertonOn 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 KensitThere's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.
Clint EastwoodThey say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.
Clint EastwoodLove and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage.
Sammy CahnA happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short
Andre MauroisI 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 TiegsBroken marriages, conflicts of loyalty, the problems of everyday life fall away as one faces up to [Jeff] Thomson.
Mike BrearleyHis designs were strictly honourable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.
Henry FieldingAfter 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 RowlandOne should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
Honore De BalzacMarriage is an adventure, like going to war.
Gilbert Keith ChestertonBy 1975 sexual feeling and marriage will have nothing to do with each other.
John Langdon-daviesThe truth is you can have a great marriage, but there are still no guarantees.
Demi MooreMost 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 CarreI support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us.
Kinky FriedmanNearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.
J R R TolkienMarriage 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 IIMore marriages might survive if the partners realised that sometimes the better comes after the worse.
Doug LarsonMarriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
Erma BombeckFor some of us, watching a miniseries that lasts longer than most marriages is not easy.
Erma BombeckMarriage 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 TaylorThis 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 MaplesI am very glad you have heard of it, anyway [when asked about his marriage]
Prince CharlesBruce [Willis] has been great about everything [on his marriage to Demi Moore]
Ashton KutcherLet us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.
Bill CosbyCompromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy
Phyllis McGinleyThere is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
C S LewisTo keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.
Ogden NashThus Dante's motto over Inferno applies with equal force to marriage: 'Ye who enter here leave all hope behind.'
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