Marriage Quotes

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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel

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

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

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.
Joseph Barth

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

To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.
Ogden Nash

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Some people dance through life, not having a steady job or a steady marriage, and this and that.
Nastassja Kinski

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

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

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

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

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

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
Honore De Balzac

The more you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes.
Amy Grant

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nearly 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 Tolkien

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

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

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

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

Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy
Phyllis McGinley

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

When 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 Cox

Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[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



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