Marriage Quotes
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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.
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Marriage has been a way of attempting to ensure the replication of power and wealth from one generation of another, passing it down from men to men.
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When it's your fourth marriage, you tend to lose faith in superstitions.
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An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.
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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.
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After marriage, all things change. And one of them better be you.
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Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
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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.
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A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
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A marriage, she thought, had to have a reason for being.
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Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.
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Every marriage is a mystery to me, even the one I'm in. So I'm no expert on it.
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I've always been clear, I support the traditional definition of marriage.
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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.
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Marriage is like a 5,000- piece jigsaw of the sky.
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Marriage is a commitment, so you always have to work at it.
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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.
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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)
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Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.
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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.
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Marriage is not defined by who is denied it. When gay people share in the freedom to marry, it doesn't change your marriage.
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I'm sorry to say my dear wife is a dreamer, and as she dreams she gets paler and leaner. Then be off to your Dream, with his fly-away hat, I stay with the girls who are happy and fat.
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In or out of marriage, abortion is not an individual choice. At a minimum, three lives are involved.
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I'm for gay marriage, because I'm for gay divorce.
