Marriage Quotes
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My lifetime listens to yours.
Muriel Rukeyser
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If men could be contented to be what they are, there were no fear in marriage.
William Shakespeare
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At first an ordeal and then an accomplishment, the daily run becomes a staple, like bread, or wine, a fine marriage, or air. It is also a free pass to friendship.
Benjamin Cheever
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I always felt that a marriage works best at a farm... where you're together and everybody has clear-cut roles; they have chores, 'you take care of this' and you know. But it's hard.
Ethan Hawke
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A bad marriage is worse than no marriage at all.
Neil Clark Warren
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I have a very intense marriage.
James Ellroy
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The chains of marriage are so heavy that it takes two to bear them, sometimes three.
Alexandre Dumas-fils
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship-only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.
Erica Jong
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Marriage is a journey. It's hills and valleys.
Eva Amurri
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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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I have a strong marriage, and my wife and I love each other.
Mike Crapo
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Even with all its problems, I will support marriage as an institution until something better comes along.
David Blankenhorn
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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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The ideal mother, like the ideal marriage, is a fiction.
Milton Sapirstein
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I don't want to make any judgments, and I don't want to preach, but I'm hoping that marriage can work: that when people do fall in love, when people do find their soul mate, everyone sticks to it. It has the potential to be a very powerful thing, marriage.
Jonathan Silverman
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Sophie Chattel-Monkheim was a Socialist by conviction and a Chattel-Monkheim by marriage.
Hector Hugh Munro
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Although we are busy with our own work, we still try and spend time together. At the same time, we give each other space. I think that is the key to a successful marriage.
Gauri Khan
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You know, we've been married for 22 years ... and I have learned a long time ago that the only people who count in any marriage are the two that are in it.
Hillary Clinton
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Our marriage works because we each carry clubs of equal weight and size.
Paul Newman
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Ours is a long marriage, and we have found solitude together.
Carolyn Heilbrun
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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.
Jane Austen
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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage".
Herbert Spencer
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I couldn't see much point in tying myself down to a middle-aged woman with four children, even though the woman was my wife and the children were my own.
Joseph Heller
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The secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.
Bette Davis