Marriage Quotes
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All too often people concentrate on finding the right spouse, little realizing that half of any marriage is being the right spouse.
Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi
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All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.
Lord Byron
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Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.
Marilyn Monroe
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Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.
Bette Davis
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Marriage is treated by all civilized societies as a peculiar and favored contract. It is in its origin a contract of natural law . . . . It is the parent, and not the child of society; the source of civility and a sort of seminary of the republic.
Joseph Story
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Marriage is a team effort. Both of us share that philosophy.
Nick Lachey
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This is exactly what the right wing is afraid of. People have had a year of legal marriage in Massachusetts to see how ending marriage discrimination helps gay and lesbian families and hurts no one.
Evan Wolfson
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I am a firm believer in marriage. In the future I will be married.
Elisabetta Canalis
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You love the accidental. A smile from a pretty girl in an interesting situation, a stolen glance, that is what you are hunting for, that is a motif for your aimless fantasy. You who always pride yourself on being an observateur must, in return, put up with becoming an object of observation. Ah, you are a strange fellow, one moment a child, the next an old man; one moment you are thinking most earnestly about the most important scholarly problems, how you will devote your life to them, and the next you are a lovesick fool. But you are a long way from marriage.
Soren Kierkegaard
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I think growing up in a big family taught me a lot of problem solving and how to share and compromise, and that's been helpful in my marriage.
Sarah Jessica Parker
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Open marriage' is an invention of a feminist era. The idea is to have a marriage where dalliances are tolerated or even encouraged for both men and women, or in some combination where both partners are getting something out of it.
Amanda Marcotte
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I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.
Barack Obama
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The sign of a good marriage is that everything is debatable and challenged; nothing is turned into law or policy. The rules, if any, are known only to the two players, who seek no public trophies.
Carolyn Heilbrun
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About the girls she only thought of marriage, and about marriage she thought as an ignorant, dissatisfied, but helpless slave did of slavery.
Christina Stead
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Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humbug.
Max Frisch
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Marriage was invented to make girls miserable. I will never get married again, not ever again.
Nujood Ali
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The only time that most women give their orating husbands undivided attention is when the old boys mumble in their sleep.
Wilson Mizner
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A bad marriage is worse than no marriage at all.
Neil Clark Warren
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Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway.
Joey Adams
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When it's your fourth marriage, you tend to lose faith in superstitions.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
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Marriage equality is the law of the land. Officials should be held to their duty to uphold the law - end of story.
Hillary Clinton
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With gay marriage there's the whole question of what marriage represents, in what's a religious ceremony for many people.
Andrew Kohut
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It seems like people make the mistake of thinking love is about the bedroom. It's not. It's about the emergency room. Love and marriage is who will sit there and wait
Stephen Tobolowsky
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A ban on same-sex marriage violates the state Constitution's equal protection clause.
Lisa Madigan