Marriage Quotes

Only two things can stop Tiger — injury or a bad marriage.

Only someone obsessed with sexual fidelity to an unhealthy degree places a higher value on preserving the ideal of monogamous marriage over preserving an actual marriage.

The end of a marriage has got to be one of the saddest events one can experience. I’ve heard that the pain [of divorce] is second only to an actual death in the family, and that sounds about right.

Marriage is like a formality for me.

according to the old joke, married people are often like little boys bathing, who cry with chattering teeth to the boys on the shore, 'Do come in, it's so warm' - it is not always warm.

Marriage laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.

The trouble with marriage is that, while every woman is at heart a mother, every man is at heart a bachelor.

Creativity is the marriage humanity makes with eternity.

Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work?

I don't think Christians should use birth control. You consummate your marriage as often as you like - and if you have babies, you have babies.

To express a marriage of two complementary colors, their mingling and their opposition, the mysterious vibrations of kindred tones.

I worship you, but I loathe marriage. I hate its smugness, its safety, its compromise and the thought of you interfering with my work, hindering me; what would you answer?

Even if my marriage is falling apart and my children are unhappy, there is still a part of me that says, 'God, this is fascinating!'

It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination.

We are trained to analyze problems and create solutions. We forget that marriage is a relationship, not a project to be completed or a problem to solve.

The Apache don't have a word for love," he said. "Know what they both say at the marriage? The squaw-taking ceremony?" "Tell me." "Varlebena. It means forever. That's all they say.

Women are like elephants to me. I like to look at them, but I wouldn't want to own one.

God created marriage. No government subcommittee envisioned it. No social organization developed it. Marriage was conceived and born in the mind of God.

The instances that second marriage move Are base respects of thrift, but none of love.

There is no such cozy combination as man and wife.

Marriage is meant to be more about your surrender than about your satisfaction.

My husband and I didn't sign a pre-nuptial agreement. We signed a mutual suicide pact.

Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.

The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase.

Bad divorce?" Hardy asked, his gaze falling to my hands. I realized I was clutching my purse in a death grip. “No, the divorce was great,” I said. “It was the marriage that sucked.

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

When women are at the height of their beauty power and exercise it, we call it marriage. When men are at the height of their success power and exercise it, we call it a mid-life crisis.

The secret of a happy marriage is to serve God and each other.

Giving men marriage tips is a little like offering Vikings a free booklet titled How Not to Pillage.

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man

In the early years, you fight because you don't understand each other. In the later years, you fight because you do.

A man leads with his mind while a woman leads with her heart.

A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise.

Marriage is an investment which pays dividends if you pay interest.

I think that two people who decide to live together in a marriage situation, they have an obligation to make the marriage work for them.

The ceremony took six minutes. The marriage lasted about the same amount of time though we didn't get a divorce for almost a year.

One day, in your search for happiness, you discover a partner by your side, and you realize that your happiness has come to help you search.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage: a marriage in which there is love, but on one side only.

Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.

Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.

The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

Being single isn't the cause of loneliness, and marriage is not necessarily the cure. There are many lonely married people as well.

Marriage is like pantyhose. It all depends on what you put into it.

My husband always felt that a marriage and career don't mix. That's why he's never worked.

I don't think young men or women should feel pressured into marriage. You shouldn't marry anyone, in my opinion, who you have to try hard for.

In marriage you are neither the husband nor the wife; you are the love between two.

Marriage is like a tense, unfunny version of Everybody Loves Raymond, only it doesn't last 22 minutes. It lasts forever.

Marriage. The roots are deep. The covenant is solid. The love is sweet. Life is hard. And God is good.