Marriage Quotes
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I don't know if it was the excitement that did it, but by the time we started our tiptoe across the icy, rutted skid yard to that shed Priya had quit shivering, but I was trembling like a marriage license in a young man's hand.
Elizabeth Bear
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There is no marriage without engagement.
Evan Wolfson
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After marriage, all things change. And one of them better be you.
Elizabeth Hawes
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I'm for gay marriage, because I'm for gay divorce.
Melissa Etheridge
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That was what marriage was: the ultimate knowledge of each other, with no need to preen or to pretend. Even its irritations came from closeness.
Bel Kaufman
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There is usually less romance in marriage than in any other relationship of life. But the general idea concerning marriage is that it is all or nearly all romance.
Alice Moore Hubbard
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Most of us carry into marriage not only our childlike illusions, but we bring to it as well the demand that it has to be wonderful, because it's supposed to be.
Eda LeShan
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Sometimes divorce is better than marriage.
Sumner Redstone
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The ideal mother, like the ideal marriage, is a fiction.
Milton Sapirstein
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The concerts you enjoy together/ Neighbors you annoy together/ Children you destroy together,/ That keep marriage in tact.
Stephen Sondheim
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The curse of marriage That we can call these delicate creatures ours And not their appetites!
William Shakespeare
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Perhaps I have made a mistake, but Heaven knows I have been faithful to my marriage vows.” She chuckled, “The more fool you!
Christina Stead
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I have a strong marriage, and my wife and I love each other.
Mike Crapo
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Marriage by now seemed to me an institution that, contrary to what one might think, stripped coitus of all humanity.
Elena Ferrante
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An epigram is the marriage of wit and wisdom; a wisecrack, their divorce.
Evan Esar
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Marriage is like a hot bath; once you get used to it, it ain't so hot.
Minnie Pearl
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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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A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage, but an ex-wife is there for the rest of your life.
Jim Samuels
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Every marriage is a mystery to me, even the one I'm in. So I'm no expert on it.
Hillary Clinton
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I went into rehab to save my marriage, but I wound up saving myself.
Michael Douglas
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Most persons have but a very moderate capacity of happiness. Expecting...in marriage a far greater degree of happiness than they commonly find, and knowing not that the fault is in their own scanty capability of happiness.
John Stuart Mill
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We’ve been fighting about gay marriage for what, 15-20 years now. Is there any evidence that fighting gay marriage is contributing to a greater appreciation among the broad society of the marital institution? Is there any evidence that the re-institutionalization of marriage is happening as a result of opposing gay marriage? And the best answer I can give to that is 'no.'
David Blankenhorn
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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.
Diane Ackerman
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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.
Evan Wolfson