Marriage Quotes

A monogamous marriage and family is what some women want - but not all of us. We are mostly doing serial monogamy anyway.

Happy is the man with a wife to tell him what to do and a secretary to do it.

I voted for the Defense of Marriage Act but I do not believe we should institutionalize a form of discrimination against any minority by amending the Constitution.

A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.

A successful marriage is not a gift; it is an achievement.

LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.

My mom, Emilie, always taught me to think hard about marriage.

I suggest that there is a splendid way out of the difficulty of marriage, and that is my way - stay out.

[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.

Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.

I was very happy in both my marriages. I was unfaithful and so were they, just like any other normal couple.

They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two.

It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.

A good marriage is different to a happy marriage.

Design, to me, is part psychology, part sociology, and part magic. A good decorator should know what's going on in someone's marriage and how their kids are doing in school.

Marriage has made me a lot happier and I'm deeply in love with my wife, and I thank God for her every day.

Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.

Marriage is another trap. If you are someone who likes independence, it's another stamp against that. And you have to swear to fidelity.

Marriage made more sense when it was indissoluble. It's the woman trying to cope with the strains of a one-parent family who will suffer most from the relaxation of the divorce laws.

The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family.

Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.

I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.

I feel that marriage can lead to the ultimate rejection and failure and divorce and things we all fear.

Men would like monogamy better if it sounded less like monotony.

She says what holds their marriage together is that she feels too damn sorry for him to ask for a divorce.

Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.

I am part of everyone I ever dated on OK Cupid.

Philosophers have a long tradition of marrying stupid women, from Socrates on. They think it clever.

So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about as numb as a slave in a totalitarian state.

Men, you'll never be a good groom to your wife unless you're first a good bride to Jesus.

How can two people love each other, create children together, cohabitiate, build a life together, and then end up hating each other in the end.

Real love, the Bible says, instinctively desires permanence.

[I]t is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband.

One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her.

Marriage is just an elaborate game that allows two selfish people to periodically feel that they're not.

The problem is simply finding the right person. Ask Plato. Just make sure she finishes your thoughts and you finish hers. That's all you need.

It's weird, marriage. It's like this license that gives a person the legal right to control their spouse / their 'other half.

And no bathroom on earth will make up for marrying a bearded man you hate.

Oh, of course there's a risk in marrying anybody, but, when it's all said and done, there's many a worse thing than a husband.

Nobles and peasants marry early. Businessmen tend to wait.

She was as sated with him as he was tired of her. Emma had rediscovered in adultery all the banality of marriage.

No measure of time with you will be long enough, but we'll start with forever.

I mean, what do people talk about when they're married?" "Their kids, I guess." "Maybe that's all they have in common.

Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life’s expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere person. Keeping that going is hard work.

What made marriage so difficult back then was yet again that instigator of so many other sorts of heartbreak: the oversize brain.

The obvious effect of frivolous divorce will be frivolous marriage. If people can be separated for no reason they will feel it all the easier to be united for no reason.

The defense of marriage is the defense of freedom. Neither of which is obsolete.