Marriage is like life in this - that it is a field of battle and not a bed of roses.
Robert Louis StevensonI've had lots of offers of marriage and from women wanting to have my kids.
Gareth GatesThere may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
Rainer Maria RilkeI'm angry because she was supposed to marry me! [when asked what he thought of Prince Charles' impending marriage to Camilla Parker Bowles]
Bernard LaporteMarriage is a mistake every man should make.
George JesselMore belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
Rainer Maria RilkeAfter 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 RowlandMarriage is the waste-paper basket of the emotions
Sidney WebbNearly 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[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 PrescottThere 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 MailerA woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.
George EliotMarriage 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 SmithMarriage is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
Lisa HoffmanI hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.
J P GettyIt is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can;
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity
George Bernard ShawMy motto is if you're not happy at home, you're not happy anywhere else, so Jason and our marriage come first.
Angie HarmonMarriages are said to be made in Heaven, which may be why they don't work here on Earth.
Thomas SzaszOn 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 KensitWhen you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
Joseph CampbellSome people dance through life, not having a steady job or a steady marriage, and this and that.
Nastassja KinskiMarriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three
Washington IrvingCompromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy
Phyllis McGinleyThe proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth, and one of the shortest lived. (Harper's Magazine, 1949)
Bernard De VotoOn 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 GoldmanMarriage 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 FeldonWhen 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 CoxBroken marriages, conflicts of loyalty, the problems of everyday life fall away as one faces up to [Jeff] Thomson.
Mike BrearleyFor every marriage then is best in tune,
When that the wife is May, the husband June.
Rowland WatkynsMore marriages might survive if the partners realised that sometimes the better comes after the worse.
Doug LarsonSometimes I bust out and do things so permanent. Like tattoos and marriage.
Drew BarrymoreAn affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.
Bette DavisI 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 StreepThus Dante's motto over Inferno applies with equal force to marriage: 'Ye who enter here leave all hope behind.'
Emma GoldmanMarriage is an adventure, like going to war.
Gilbert Keith ChestertonMarriage hasn't been my thing. But gay people, knock yourselves out!
Ben AffleckI support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us.
Kinky FriedmanAs to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
SocratesMarriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.
P G WodehouseMarriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.
William O DouglasA successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
Andre MauroisWhen 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 FieldingA happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short
Andre MauroisAny intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.
Isadora DuncanMarriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
Honore De BalzacIn Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.
Rita RudnerThere is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
C S LewisMarriage 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 AngelisI'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 HeatonHe'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]
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