Marriage Quotes
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God has set the type of marriage through creation. Each creature seeks its perfection in another.
Martin Luther
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The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.
William Bolitho
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I believe in the institution of marriage, and I intend to keep trying till I get it right.
Richard Pryor
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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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I believe no gentleman would like to have his family affairs neglected because his wife was filling her head with crotchets and pothooks, and who, because she understood a few scraps of Latin, valued that more than minding her needle or providing her husband's dinner.
Sarah Fielding
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There is no marriage without engagement.
Evan Wolfson
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A life allied with mine, for the rest of our lives... that is the miracle of marriage.
Denis de Rougemont
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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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I believe that marriage is not just a bond but a sacred bond between a man and a woman.
Hillary Clinton
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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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The greatest insult came at the marriage ceremony when the minister asked 'who giveth this woman,' and some brother, or father or other man, unblushingly said he did, as though it were entirely a commercial transaction between men.
Nellie McClung
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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
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It would have been a wonderful wedding - had it not been mine.
Erma Bombeck
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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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An epigram is the marriage of wit and wisdom; a wisecrack, their divorce.
Evan Esar
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Both in the lower and the middle classes the wiseacres urge young men 'to think it over' before taking the decisive step. Thus they foster the delusion that the choice of a wife or husband may be governed by a certain number of accurately weighable pros and cons. This is a crude delusion on the part of common sense.
Denis de Rougemont
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I don't think having separate bathrooms is a key to a successful marriage, if you love one another.
Ewan McGregor
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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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In both marriage and war you must cut up the things people say like a cake and eat only what you can stomach.
Catherynne M. Valente
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No marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners.
Elisabeth Elliot
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Marriage is an arrangement by which two people start by getting the best out of each other and often end by getting the worst.
Gerald Brenan
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It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.
Elizabeth Edwards
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Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
Henrik Ibsen
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Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure; Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
William Congreve