Marriage Quotes
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Marriage is like the romantic ideal, and yet the trappings around it and the culture about it are really the opposite of that.
Lydia Millet -
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.
Phil Collins Genesis
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Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine, Whose weakness, married to thy stronger state, Makes me with thy strength to communicate.
William Shakespeare -
After three failed marriages, I know what it's like to be replaced.
Terry Bradshaw -
Obama sees himself as such a huge change that he can be cautious about other societal changes. But what he doesn't realize is that legalizing gay marriage is like electing a black president. Before you do it, it seems inconceivable. Once it's done, you can't remember what all the fuss was about.
Maureen Dowd -
I've always had bizarre, negative feelings about anything traditional, like marriage and family. I never thought something like that worked.
Gerard Way My Chemical Romance -
Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.
Euripides -
Marriage is all right, but I think it's carrying love a little bit too far.
Texas Guinan
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Always remember, children, that marriage is a very intimate relationship. It's not just sitting and chatting to a person; there are other things, you know.
Nancy Mitford -
They had a tremendous impact. Not just because they underscore that this is a civil rights question, but they're making it clear this is a question of fairness that affects real families, including Latinos and African Americans many of whom are the most vulnerable when discriminatorily excluded from marriage.
Evan Wolfson -
Getting married is like putting one's hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.
Thomas More -
In any marriage, it seems, love is when you keep paying attention.
Elizabeth Flock -
I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
Mahatma Gandhi -
People are still encouraged to marry as if they could count on marriage being for life, and at the same time they are absorbing a knowledge of the great frequency of divorce.
Margaret Mead
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Defining marriage is a power that should be left to the states. Moreover, no state should be forced to recognize a marriage that is not within its own laws, Constitution, and legal precedents.
John Sununu -
If marriage were only bed, we could have made it.
Marilyn Monroe -
To have peace and love in marriage is a gift which is next to the knowledge of the Gospel.
Martin Luther -
A mother! What are we worth really? They all grow up whether you look after them or not. That poor miserable brat of his is growing up, and I certainly licked the hide off her; and she's seen marriage at its worst, and now she's dreaming about 'supermen' and 'great men'. What is the good of doing anything for them?
Christina Stead -
It's the strings vibrating at the same time but separately that makes a good marriage. It messy, it's complicated and it's quite wonderful.
Hector Elizondo -
Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.
Bono U2
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To dance with a man is to concentrate a twelvemonth's regulation fire upon him in the fragment of an hour. To pass to courtship without acquaintance, to pass to marriage without courtship, is a skipping of terms reserved for those alone who tread this royal road.
Thomas Hardy -
There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
Erica Jong -
The rule with marriage is the less you talk about it the better, as far as I can tell.
Jennifer Garner -
A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.
George Eliot