Marriage Quotes

The common impulse is not to sustain a marriage by finding satisfaction elsewhere, but to end the marriage and set up a new one which will provide the comfort lacking in the first.

unlike a disappointing marriage, disappointing motherhood cannot be terminated by divorce.

Marriage is the agreement to let a family happen.

Marriage is to family what legs are to a table.

But after a certain point in a marriage, you stopped having a certain kind of fight, Olive thought, because when the years behind you were more than the years in front of you, things were different.

Marriage is such hard work. And it's full of rage and real human drama.

I've often thought if I didn't make my marriage work, I would have failed at my one true shot at happiness.

Content and technology are strange bed fellows. We are joined together. Sometimes we misunderstand each other. But isn't that after all the definition of marriage?

Hope died as I was led unto my marriage bed.

Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instinct can be perceived.

Marriage is a fine and sacred thing if you make it so.

It has been strange to me to return to life and to feel that I have any sympathy with human beings, after the long interval of quiet and indifference which succeeded my marriage.

As you become older, you become less judgmental and take offense less. But marriage is hard work; the illusion that you get married and live happily ever after is absolute rubbish.

Every married couple has disputes from time to time, and in every good marriage, an attempt is made to overcome the dispute.

Civil marriage, like all civil rights provided by the government, must be provided equally to all Americans.

Marry above thy match and you will get a master.

I think that's one of the most difficult things in any marriage - in order to build anything, you must be together. You can't build anything over the telephone.

Lady Lytton rules her husband, but that I suppose is always the case where marriages are what is called 'happy'.

I've had marriage proposals, invitations to military balls and even a few prom offers from 18-year-old boys.

I have lived long enough to know that the evening glow of love has its own riches and splendour.

I worked with John, but I had enough sense to walk just a little ways behind him. I could have made more records, but I wanted to have a marriage.

Whether it's marriage of business, patience is the first rule of success.

Country music is a form letter. You fi ll in the blanks. You move from one broken heart to the next one and from this marriage to that divorce, from a beating here to a beating there.

Man and wife make one fool.

Is there stop 'n' go counseling for couples on the run?

I hadn't really even been thinking about TV. To me, it seemed like such a commitment, almost like a marriage.

I lost my second marriage because of drinking, and I loved the woman very much. But I thought I needed booze to write. I'm glad I was disabused.

Where there is no love, a person's faithfulness to the marriage bond is probably against nature.

I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy.

Even if you plan a marriage and a family, you are never quite prepared for the reality versus how you imagined it. In a lot of ways it's better, and in a lot of ways it's worse. That's life, right?

Flirting I take to be the excitement of love, without its reality, and without its ordinary result in marriage.

Given two tempers and the time, the ordinary marriage produces anarchy.

[Marriage] is the merciless revealer, the great white searchlight turned on the darkest places of human nature.

A successful marriage isn't necessarily one that lasts until you're dead.

Marriage gives you a new respect for a person.

Tis Love alone can make our Fetters please.

In my experience, staying in a marriage that my ex and I both agreed had all its best moments behind it was epically depressing.

Impossible for anyone to conceive the torments of his nights in bed with his beloved one and estranged from her. That turning of backs, that cold space between their two unhappy bodies.

For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both.

Judaism had absolutely nothing to do with my past marriage to Mike [Todd] or my upcoming marriage to Eddie Fisher, both of whom were Jewish. It was something I had wanted to do for a long time.

During a long and varied career as a bachelor, dear spouse [mock platform manner], I have noticed that marriage is usually the death of politeness between a man and a woman.

I love being in a relationship, but marriage isn't for me.

I've never understood what the upside of marriage would be for me personally.

We are talking about someone who has lived. It must be honored in every respect. The fictional can take any kind of channel - according to the actor's marriage to the character.

Learning unconditional love helped me have healthier relationships, including my current marriage.

Arguments could fill a marriage like water, running through everything, always, with no taste or color but lots of noise.

Marriage is commonly a meal wherein the soup is better than the desert.

I agree that [marriage] should be treated like a business deal. But every business deal has to have its own terms and its own kind of currency.

It was the marriage that was important; Jane Austen rarely even bothered to write about the wedding.

Most of the well-known American feminists of the 19th century did not come out against the institution of marriage.