Marriage Quotes

Marriage changes things because there's a lot more at stake. You can't get too toxic because you have to live together. No one can reach for the nuclear button too quickly.

The way some were entrapped into lives of prostitution, the way that something like marriage could rob them of their rights.

The only way you can make a marriage work is as free, independent people. It needs to be based on the good feelings that you have for each other, not on need.

All other goods by fortune's hand are given, A wife is the peculiar gift of Heaven.

Squeeze marriage as much as you like, you will never extract anything from it but fun for bachelors and boredom for husbands.

When you expand the definition of marriage beyond one man and one woman, society can expect other consenting adults in other configurations to say that their choices deserve recognition.

Instead of relief or gratitude, more guilt washes over me. Andy's certainly not faultless - no one ever is in a marriage

I look at marriage and I think marriage is phenomenal. I think it's great. I don't hold anything against marriage.

Self-love is as protective as the Deity; Disenchantment is as perspicacious as a surgeon; Experience is as provident as a mother. Such are the theologic virtues of marriage.

What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters

The marriage between the fantasy and the Westerns is that thing of, if people think you're the best gunslinger around, they're going to come looking for you.

What sweet delight a quiet life affords.

There is usually less romance in marriage than in any other relationship of life. But the general idea concerning marriage is that it is all or nearly all romance.

I think that marriage is beautiful. And if it's a partnership with someone you love, then it really is beautiful. Yeah, I think that marriage does work.

William Blake cursed the flesh for a clod, Yet of some of his sayings we Moderns have heard tell: 'The nakedness of woman is the work of God', Or that title--The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.

Marriage is memory, marriage is time. Marriage is not only time: it is also, parodoxically, the denial of time.

Marriage, at this point in my life? I'm not interested in it. Yet. Maybe later when I'm 35 or 40.

Many states have laws against cousin marriage, which I think are ridiculous - people should be allowed to make that choice.

marriage is mostly puttin' up with things, I reckon, when it ain't makin' believe.

I can't fault [Donald] Trump for firing [Craig] Deare. Then again, I also can't fault Deare for going berserk. Sometimes a marriage just doesn't work.

Marriage is not only a package of benefits - it's a status.

You should not propose marriage until you have resolved your feelings about your ex.

We can practice tolerance while still holding true to cultural values that protect the institution of marriage as a union between only a man and a woman.

Being bad. Discomfort with your body. Bad self image. All those things turn you into an artist. The same things that keep you from being in a proper marriage.

Yesterday my daughter said to me, 'My marriage is falling apart.' And now all she can do is watch it falling.

If you want true love and a long-lasting marriage, you need to start by figuring out what makes you happy.

[Marriage is] like signing a 356-page contract without knowing what's in it.

Marriage makes a man more vulnerable by doubling the expanse of sail exposed to the tempests of social life.

[...] marriage is one thing, and love is another...You need to have a solid canvas; nobody stops you to weave the arabesques.

If the social conservatives feel that they have a strong argument on traditional marriage, then feel free to have it.

It seems particularly ironic that a church that at one stage, a long time ago, fought to redefine marriage should now be so opposed to these attempts to redefine marriage.

Being in a marriage and having children is the greatest pleasure, but it is certainly not the easiest pleasure. It is not like eating ice cream.

On marriage to Jonny Lee Miller: It comes down to timing. I think he's the greatest husband a girl could ask for. I'll always love him, we were simply too young.

Love and marriage are wonderful arenas in which to place a character. We are most likely to risk our morals and beliefs while in love. Betrayal gives tremendous insights into a character as well.

the real killer was when you married the wrong person but had the right children.

Maintaining marriage seems to be tougher than fatherhood: apparently its the most difficult thing in the world.

I've always wanted to be independent and answer for myself. That probably is the part of me I would class to be feminist. I'd like to have children; marriage I have a bit of an issue with.

No Government has the moral authority to dismantle the universally understood meaning of marriage.

If marriage can be redefined so that it no longer means a man and a woman but two men or two women, why stop there? Why not allow three men or a woman and two men to constitute a marriage?

Marriage is not a reform school.

A storybook marriage? No, not at all. What Mitt Romney and I have is a real marriage.

According to God, the One who designed and instituted marriage, love is a choice. It’s a matter of obedience, not emotion.

They err, who say that husbands can't be lovers.

It's very different than it use to be. I think everybody has a lot more experience in how to be in a relationship - whether it's a marriage or a significant other or a business or a friend.

Why can't women tell jokes? Because we marry them!

you see, we live in a cold climate and are not permitted to kiss on the street so I made up a song that wasn't true. I made up a song called Marriage.

And within the house ashes are being stuffed into my marriage, fury is lapping the walls, dishes crack on the shelves, a strangler needs my throat, the daughter has ceased to eat anything.

the marriage twists, holds firm, a sailor's knot.

The coup de grace which ends the patient's life altogether is quite equivalent to the drastic modification in the institution of marriage that would be brought on by same-gender marriage.

The True Measure Of Success is determined by your home life.