Marriage Quotes
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The problem for those who assert biblical authority in support of traditional definitions of marriage is that one could, with equal validity, assert that the lending of money or certain kinds of haircuts are forbidden by God, or that slavery and the subjugation of women are authorized by the Lord.
Jon Meacham
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Into it in the end, but she’d gotten the feeling he’d only relented to placate her, to ease some of the tension that’d crept into their marriage. And by then it was too late. A month later she was attending his funeral. Oddly, she didn’t feel the gut-wrenching loss that normally accompanied any thought of her late husband. Did that mean she was learning to live without him? Or was it the hope of having a child that buoyed her spirits? If she was pregnant, it would be more than a little ironic that it had happened with Maxim… “Get this over with,” she said aloud.
Brenda Novak
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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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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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Marriage. . . is the most glorious and most exalting principle of the gospel of Jesus Christ. No ordinance is of more importance and none more sacred and more necessary to the eternal joy of man. Faithfulness to the marriage covenant brings the fullest joy here and glorious rewards hereafter.
Ezra Taft Benson
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When men enter into the state of marriage, they stand nearest to God.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Fear paralyses you - fear of flying, fear of the future, fear of leaving a rubbish marriage, fear of public speaking, or whatever it is.
Annie Lennox Eurythmics
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Marriage is a risk; I think it's a great and glorious risk, as long as you embark on the adventure in the same spirit.
Cate Blanchett
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I have always considered marriage as the most interesting event of one's life, the foundation of happiness or misery.
George Washington
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Marriage is a big deal, but who's to say I'm not going to pull a Vegas and get married to see what it's like for a minute?
Lindsay Lohan
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A bad marriage is worse than no marriage at all.
Neil Clark Warren
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Marriage is the basic building block of civilization. We are redefining it at our own peril.
Hank Hanegraaff
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Marriage ain't easy, but it's great most of the time.
Sean Penn
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Men are fine, love is fine, it's marriage I'm a little disappointed in.
Hedy Lamarr
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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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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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A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.
George Eliot
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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.
Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
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Out of control judicial activism threatens traditional marriage in America.
Ernest Istook
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Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.
Honore de Balzac
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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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We need uniform protection of traditional marriage. You can't have different definitions on something as fundamental as marriage. The Marriage Protection Amendment is the only solution to this problem.
Ernest Istook
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When it's your fourth marriage, you tend to lose faith in superstitions.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
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Could mere loving be a life's work? Could it be a career like marriage or nursing the sick or going on the stage? Could it be adventure?
Elizabeth Goudge