Quotes on Marriage

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

Author: Henry Adams

Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway.

Author: Joey Adams

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.

Author: Kate Adie

Marriage hasn't been my thing. But gay people, knock yourselves out!

Author: Ben Affleck

In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage.

Author: Robert Anderson

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day, but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Author: Barbara Angelis

Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so much attention that a husband and wife, concentrating on their children, fail to notice each other's faults.

Author: Richard Armour

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

Author: Jane Austen

I do not believe that defending traditional marriage between one man and one woman excludes anybody or usurps anybody's civil rights and denies anybody their civil rights.

Author: Alan Autry

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Author: Enid Bagnold

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

Author: Honore Balzac

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

Author: Honore Balzac

My marriage had been impulsive. That marriage should have been short-lived instead of the 23 years it spanned.

Author: Joseph Barbera

Have you ever heard of a good marriage growing in front of the cameras?

Author: Brigitte Bardot

Sometimes I bust out and do things so permanent. Like tattoos and marriage.

Author: Drew Barrymore

Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.

Author: Warren Beatty

I mean, for all of his faults and the troubles in his marriage, Bill Clinton is still married to a girl he met in the library 25 years ago at school. Can we say that about many of our other leaders today in America, including on the right wing?

Author: Paul Begala

Marriage and the creation of families has been an integral part of our society since its creation; it should not be defined without the kind of involvement by the people which a constitutional process would require.

Author: Robert Bennett

To us marriage is first, everything else is second.

Author: Julie Benz

Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough.

Author: Ingrid Bergman

I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage.

Author: Halle Berry

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

Author: Ambrose Bierce

Second, marriage is an issue that our Founding Fathers wisely left to the states.

Author: Judy Biggert

Let me first state that I believe that marriage is a sacred union between one man and one woman.

Author: Judy Biggert

Marriage has just never interested me.

Author: Jacqueline Bisset

While 45 of the 50 States have either a State constitutional amendment or a statute that preserves the current definition of marriage, left-wing activist judges and officials at the local levels have struck down State laws protecting marriage.

Author: John Boehner

What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.

Author: Alain Botton

I think the institution of marriage is a great idea, but for me it's just an idea.

Author: Lara Boyle

In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.

Author: Gerald Brenan

Sticking with a marriage. That's true grit, man.

Author: Jeff Bridges

Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.

Author: Joyce Brothers

I do not support a constitutional amendment to prohibit gay marriage.

Author: Corrine Brown

Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate.

Author: Corrine Brown

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Author: Jean Bruyere

The activists will not stop in trying to impose their extreme views on the rest of us, and they have now plotted out a state-by-state strategy to increase the number of judicial decisions redefining marriage without the voice of the people being heard.

Author: Jim Bunning

There is no reason why marriage should necessarily compel an actress to forego her career.

Author: Billie Burke

Marriage is overdone. As long as there are people, people are going to find it interesting.

Author: Augusten Burroughs

Our Nation must defend the sanctity of marriage.

Author: George Bush

I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.

Author: George Bush

It devastates me now that I have been reduced to a Hollywood statistic - another joke marriage.

Author: Sophia Bush

Marriage is not about age; it's about finding the right person.

Author: Sophia Bush

A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.

Author: Samuel Butler

Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?

Author: Samuel Butler

It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.

Author: David Byrne

I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage.

Author: Maria Callas

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.

Author: Ben Campbell

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

Author: Joseph Campbell

Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.

Author: Eddie Cantor

If someone talks about union, fidelity, a monogamous relationship, love, blessing; I would say it sounds like marriage to me. And blessing, you see, I think is undermining our sacrament of marriage.

Author: George Carey

Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage.

Author: John Carre

I'm so wrapped up in my work that it's often impossible to consider other things in my life. My marriage ended in divorce because of this, my relationship with Holly has suffered by this.

Author: Jim Carrey

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Author: Johnny Carson

I was against gay marriage until I realized I didn't have to get one.

Author: James Carville

I oppose a constitutional amendment against gay marriage.

Author: Ed Case

My own personal, moral, spiritual, religious, etc. beliefs don't oppose same-gender marriage.

Author: Ed Case

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.

Author: June Cash

Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit.

Author: Margaret Cavendish

I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more.

Author: Marc Chagall

I didn't know that President Bush would endorse a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.

Author: Mary Cheney

It won't take 40 years for opposition to same-sex marriage to dissipate.

Author: Mary Cheney

To me marriage is for five or ten years.

Author: Cher

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Author: Gilbert Chesterton

I've never quite understood why people marry; marriage is just an invented structure.

Author: Julie Christie

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

Author: Marcus Cicero

Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth.

Author: Edwin Cole

The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

Author: Samuel Coleridge

In 1977 we played America and Europe three times, and Japan - my marriage suffered as a result. My then wife took the kids to Canada to be near her parents.

Author: Phil Collins

Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.

Author: Charles Colton

My marriage to my husband, Bart Conner in 1996 is my proudest personal moment.

Author: Nadia Comaneci

Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.

Author: William Congreve

Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.

Author: Billy Connolly

Marriage is an exercise in torture.

Author: Frances Conroy

Well, my wife and I were married in a toilet - it was a marriage of convenience!

Author: Tommy Cooper

I'm a little skeptical about using the Constitution this way, but I also believe marriage is between a man and a woman and that the courts shouldn't legislate this matter.

Author: Pete Coors

Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.

Author: Irwin Corey

The heart of marriage is memories; and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns, then your marriage is a gift from the gods.

Author: Bill Cosby

When David Arquette and I got engaged we started therapy together. I'd heard that the first year of marriage is the hardest, so we decided to work through all that stuff early.

Author: Courteney Cox

I finally got a chance to talk to my daughter from my previous marriage. I just got married May 3 to my beautiful wife, but we don't see each other much.

Author: Peter Criss

My mother and stepfather were married 43 years, so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And, you know, it's just a number.

Author: Jamie Curtis

My marriage? Up to now everything's okay. But it's a real marriage - imperfect and very difficult. It's all about people evolving somewhat simultaneously through their lives. I think we've emotionally evolved.

Author: Jamie Curtis

My marriage is on the rocks again, yeah, my wife just broke up with her boyfriend.

Author: Rodney Dangerfield

We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations - we're doing everything we can to keep our marriage together.

Author: Rodney Dangerfield

Other than marriage, she doesn't control me and I don't control her.

Author: Gavyn Davies

An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.

Author: Bette Davis

Marriage is an institution and that's where a couple finish up.

Author: Les Dawson

Marriage commissioners who choose not to marry homosexuals are being fired. A Knights of Columbus chapter in British Columbia is in court because it chooses not allow a lesbian group to use its facility for marriage ceremonies. The list goes on.

Author: Stockwell Day

Our national media refuses to report that even the Supreme Court did not say marriage was a human right in all cases nor did it say that the heterosexual definition violated anyone's right or that the heterosexual definition of marriage was unconstitutional.

Author: Stockwell Day

Provincial governments in Canada have terminated the positions of marriage commissioners who have, for personal religious convictions, not performed same sex marriages. It has happened in Saskatchewan.

Author: Stockwell Day

My parents did not have a perfect marriage. It was pretty good, but it was not perfect. My marriage is not perfect. My wife is, but I happen to be imperfect. However, that does not discount the fact that the definition of marriage must be defended and protected.

Author: Stockwell Day

Bishop Frederick Henry of Calgary is facing at least two official objections to his public statements along with expensive hearings before the Alberta Human Rights Commission for expressing his biblical views on same sex marriage.

Author: Stockwell Day

Marriage is obsolete and a trap.

Author: Catherine Deneuve

I don't see any reason for marriage when there is divorce.

Author: Catherine Deneuve

The biggest surprise about our marriage is that Erin was out there.

Author: James Denton

There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.

Author: Princess Diana

The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.

Author: Denis Diderot

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Author: James Dobson

Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker.

Author: Mary Douglas

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

Author: William Douglas

But I will agree that I think that things happen with people in relationships, that you might have been able to enjoy Morocco, say, if you weren't getting out of a bad marriage. You know what I mean?

Author: Robert Downey, Jr.

We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.

Author: Daniel Drew

It's not someone else's responsibility to honor my marriage. It's my responsibility.

Author: David Duchovny

The weaker partner in a marriage is the one who loves the most.

Author: Eleanora Duse

There was no religious ceremony connected with marriage among us, while on the other hand the relation between man and woman was regarded as in itself mysterious and holy.

Author: Charles Eastman

There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.

Author: Clint Eastwood

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Author: Barbara Ehrenreich

The most important thing for a good marriage is to learn how to argue peaceably.

Author: Anita Ekberg

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Author: George Eliot

I have a very intense marriage.

Author: James Ellroy

I was looking very much for a career. My second marriage to Stan Herman had ended, and I wanted very much to be independent, not take alimony from him, be on my own, do the right thing.

Author: Linda Evans

Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career.

Author: Sam Ewing

This is the kind of situation that can tear people apart. It tears at the fabric of your soul and can certainly tear at your marriage and ours has gotten only stronger.

Author: Shelley Fabares

Any sex outside of the marriage bond between a man and a woman is violating God's law.

Author: Jerry Falwell

I left my marriage knowing I'd have to work. I have.

Author: Sarah Ferguson

Marriage is a financial contract; I have enough contracts already.

Author: Linda Fiorentino

Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.

Author: Brendan Francis

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

Author: Benjamin Franklin

I'm not a marriage expert, quite clearly.

Author: Cathy Freeman

Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humbug.

Author: Max Frisch

There were many women around. We all had a relationship with each other that was very strong. And all of our minds kind of hooked up. We rejected the society. We rejected marriage because we didn't like what our parents had.

Author: Lynette Fromme

Marriage is too interesting an experiment to be tried only once.

Author: Eva Gabor

When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place.

Author: Helen Gahagan

When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.

Author: Maggie Gallagher

Europe, which gave us the idea of same-sex marriage, is a dying society, with birthrates 50 percent below replacement.

Author: Maggie Gallagher

I suffered, I really suffered, with all three of my husbands. And I tried damn hard with all three, starting each marriage certain that it was going to last until the end of my life. Yet none of them lasted more than a year or two.

Author: Ava Gardner

I don't have this fantasy about marriage anymore. Everyone says it takes hard work. Well, it kind of does - and I'm much more pragmatic about romance than I used to be.

Author: Jennifer Garner

I refused David Letterman's proposal of marriage for obvious reasons, but thanks for asking.

Author: Teri Garr

Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking.

Author: Marvin Gaye

She got the magazine on a Wednesday morning, and on Thursday announced our marriage was over.

Author: David Gest

Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there.

Author: Paul Getty

A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.

Author: Paul Getty

I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily.

Author: Paul Getty

They make Spy Kids, they make Scream, they make A Scary Movie. This doesn't do that, so it could be a very bad marriage. I'm trying to keep this potential nightmare quiet because we're just finishing editing.

Author: Terry Gilliam

College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage.

Author: George Gobel

For me working on the marriage and not making the easy choice of cheating was something that I could not do.

Author: Al Goldstein

Even though marriage is doomed, if you turned it into a job you like and really work at it - it can be salvaged.

Author: Al Goldstein

The only way marriage can work is if a man respects the woman and she is a thinking woman and he wants to work on the marriage.

Author: Al Goldstein

Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.

Author: Amy Grant

Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.

Author: Robert Graves

I firmly believe in marriage. It's a real important decision that takes a lot of dedication and time. If you're thinking about divorce. You shouldn't get married.

Author: Seth Green

Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.

Author: Dick Gregory

I think the Mother is gradually revealing itself to me and taking over. But it is not the Mother alone. It is the Mother and the Father, the male and the female, sort of gradually having their marriage.

Author: Bede Griffiths

I'm looking forward to talking to Bill Parcells, too, and to seeing how that marriage with Jerry Jones goes.

Author: Lisa Guerrero

The secret of a good marriage is forgiving your partner for marrying you in the first place.

Author: Sacha Guitry

I have no difficulty with the recognition of civil unions for non-traditional relationships but I believe in law we should protect the traditional definition of marriage.

Author: Stephen Harper

I've always been clear, I support the traditional definition of marriage.

Author: Stephen Harper

Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.

Author: Sydney Harris

No person connected with me by blood or marriage will be appointed to office.

Author: Rutherford Hayes

Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit.

Author: Seamus Heaney

I believe I went through a divorce. My relationship with Ellen is no less significant as a marriage than my relationship to Coley.

Author: Anne Heche

I always say now that I'm in my blonde years. Because since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonde.

Author: Hugh Hefner