What Is Marriage Quotes

Now that the Sanctity and Holiness of heterosexual marriage has been destroyed, are they going to cancel The Bachelor?

Centuries ago, human beings created marriage. Later, they looked to the sky and dreamt of traveling to the moon. Coincidence?

Success in marriage depends on being able, when you get over being in love, to really love....You never know anyone until you marry them.

Psychologists call this habituation, economists call it declining marginal utility, and the rest of us call it marriage.

The kind of eyes that jumped from a woman's dreams right into her morning and made trouble in the marriage bed.

I have to wonder at what point the people fighting to protect marriage will realize that traditional couples haven't exactly been doing too good a job of it so far.

Maybe that is what marriage is: Two people creating a cult together.

I always felt as though, 'If nothing else, I have a successful marriage.'

Marriage is not for me. I tell you that I am Blank Verse. I am talent, and I do not rhyme with Love. I am talent and I do not rhyme with man.

Dating means doing a lot of fun things you will never do again if you get married. The fun stops with marriage because you're trying to save money for when you split up your property.

What's happened to marriage? The wedding-industrial complex. Brides get swept up in this world of obsession - it has to be your perfect day.

If you're Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston, and your marriage is breaking up - that's an awful thing. But to see that speculation in people, it's gotta sting a little bit.

It was always difficult to get cattle returned once a marriage was dissolved.

The trouble with many married people is that they are trying to get more out of marriage than there is in it.

Happy that New York passed marriage equality tonight. A victory for human rights. Progress.

If marriage is about deciding to love on a daily basis, I have woken up to a no-brainer every day since.

By 1975 sexual feeling and marriage will have nothing to do with each other.

I usually save these answers [on the institution of marriage] for my Barbara Walters Special, but she didn't call so I've never been engaged, despite popular belief.

You should know the ins and outs [of the marriage]. So it was nice to see a little bit of background.

I have people printing that I have. Never been engaged. As far as what I think of marriage, I think it's great. I think I'd like to be married some day, but I'll start with love.

The rules of marriage were simple and easy to follow: faithfulness, patience, compromise. But there were no rules to divorce, or if there were, he had not yet discovered them.

My opinion is borne out of my childhood, my faith, my beliefs. That marriage is between one man and one woman.

Shutting one's eyes is an art, my dear. I suppose there's no use trying to make you see that - but that's the only way one can stay married.

If everybody was so reverent of the institute of marriage, how did all the adultery get committed?

That is the strength of having a trusting and ongoing relationship that draws on our history and moves right on into our present, and I have that kind of marriage.

Long-married couples balance their checkbooks as a substitute for love-making, or they refuse each other love by protesting one another's financial error or excess.

The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.

I think that's the answer to a good marriage. Everyone has their own room.

A perfect marriage is as rare as a perfect love. Could it be otherwise, when both men and women are so imperfect? Could aught else be expected? Yet all do expect it.

The wonder is not that some married people are less happy than they hoped to be, but that any married people, out of the honeymoon, or even in it, are ever happy at all.

Love never stands still; it must inevitably be either growing or decaying - especially the love of marriage.

Better no marriage, than a marriage short of the best.

Im the kind of guy, when the marriage is breaking up, who doesnt want to yell in front of the kids. So I left, but it was very hard.

I have a lot of respect for marriage.

A woman's hair net tangled in a man's spectacles on top of the bedroom dresser.

Whoever strikes at marriage either by word or act undermines the foundation of all moral society.

When a relationship is right, it is no more possible to wake up and want out of the marriage than it is to wake up and stop believing in God. What is, is what is.

I wasn't the president. And my first wife thinks I'm great. And my second wife and my - and I have a great marriage. I mean, I have a great marriage.

In Necessary Marriage, I tried to repeat entire phrases without the reader noticing. My work doesn't have the rigor of music, but I hope it alludes to it.

Marriage wrecks any decent relationship.

A woman might as well propose: her husband will claim she did.

most of us carry into marriage not only our childlike illusions, but we bring to it as well the demand that it has to be wonderful, because it's supposed to be.

I like marriage. I've been married three times.

someones married their everyones laughed their cryings and did their dance (sleep wake hope and then) they said their nevers they slept their dream

It isn't silence you can cut with a knife any more, it's interchange of ideas. Intelligent discussion of practically everything is what is breaking up modern marriage.

Social media, to me, is like a marriage. You have to foster it and take care of it and commit to it. And you have to understand your partner.

Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

To marry for love were no reproachful thing if we did not see that of ten thousand couples that do it, hardly one can be brought for an example that it may be done and not repented afterwards.

When married one has to get into an argument once in a while since in this way one learns about the other.

What an age do we live in, when 'tis a miracle if in ten couples that are married, two of them live so as not to publish to the world that they cannot agree.