Marriage Quotes
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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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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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The Master said of Gong Yechang, “He is marriageable. Although he was once imprisoned and branded as a criminal, he was in fact innocent of any crime.” The Master gave him his daughter in marriage. (Analects 5.1)
Confucius
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I went into rehab to save my marriage, but I wound up saving myself.
Michael Douglas
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Marriage, the family unit, was the "original Department of Health, Education and Welfare."
Michael Novak
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I do think that marriage can be a wonderful thing if it's the right thing for the two people involved. I believe in love – very much so – how can you not believe after you've experienced it? I believe in relationships. One day, I know I'll find the right woman and get married myself.
Michael Jackson
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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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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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Stresses in a marriage and in family life, sometimes they're prompted by whatever is going on in the wider world as well as what's going on behind your door.
Sharon Horgan
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The present relationship existing between husband and wife, where one claims a command over the actions of the other, is nothing more than a remnant of the old leaven of slavery. It is necessarily destructive of refined love; for how can a man continue to regard as his type of the ideal a being whom he has, be denying an equality of privilege with himself, degraded to something below himself?
Herbert Spencer
