Marriages Quotes

Most marriages I've known, and I've been married a long time and I've known a lot of married people - you wonder how they got together. Often they seem to be opposites.

Paul Mazursky
Of my four marriages, the one to Bob Levitt is the only one I don't regret.

Ethel Merman
- Regret
- Marriages

I think that political marriages are subject to more strain than most precisely because of the nature of politics.

Tony Abbott
A defeatist attitude kills almost as many marriages as do affairs.

Gary L. Thomas
I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make choices. If you want a good marriage, you must pay attention to that. If you want to be independent, go ahead. You can't have it all.

Lauren Bacall
Among the reasons marriages fail, sex ranks no higher than fourth, behind money, having only one bathroom, and an inability to communicate, reasons one, two and three.

Bette Davis
- Money
- Sex
- Communicate
Why do long marriages occasionally endow their inhabitants with a rare kind of equilibrium otherwise almost unknown in human relations? My guess is that the value of the moment has at last overshadowed the long history of resentments, betrayals, and boredom.

Carolyn Heilbrun
To live for a principle, for the triumph of some reform by which all mankind are to be lifted up to be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton