Marriage Quotes
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Into it in the end, but she’d gotten the feeling he’d only relented to placate her, to ease some of the tension that’d crept into their marriage. And by then it was too late. A month later she was attending his funeral. Oddly, she didn’t feel the gut-wrenching loss that normally accompanied any thought of her late husband. Did that mean she was learning to live without him? Or was it the hope of having a child that buoyed her spirits? If she was pregnant, it would be more than a little ironic that it had happened with Maxim… “Get this over with,” she said aloud.
Brenda Novak
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Marriage ... has historically been a battlefield, the site of collisions within and between governments and religions over who should regulate it. But marriage has weathered centuries of skirmishes and change. It has evolved from an institution that was imposed on some people and denied to others, to the loving union of companionship, commitment, and caring between equal partners that we think of today.
Evan Wolfson
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Marriage was probably the worst mistake I ever made in my life.
Tony Dorsett
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I'm terrified of marriage. I'm terrified of not doing something so important and at the same time I think you shouldn't rush into these things.
Burt Reynolds
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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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Women hope men will change after marriage but they don't; men hope women won't change but they do.
Bettina Arndt
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I have a strong marriage, and my wife and I love each other.
Mike Crapo
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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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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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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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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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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage".
Herbert Spencer
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The ideal mother, like the ideal marriage, is a fiction.
Milton Sapirstein
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When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
Francois Rabelais
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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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The chains of marriage are so heavy that it takes two to bear them, sometimes three.
Alexandre Dumas-fils
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My lifetime listens to yours.
Muriel Rukeyser
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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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Ours is a long marriage, and we have found solitude together.
Carolyn Heilbrun
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The secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.
Bette Davis
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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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Many people are skeptical about marriage of Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Pressley. They say, Lisa Marie is more of a sit at home type, while Michael Jackson is more of a homosexual pedophile.
Norm MacDonald
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Such is the nature of the marriage relation that a breach once made cannot be healed, and it is the height of folly to waste one's life in vain efforts to make a binary compound of two diverse elements. What would we think of the chemist who should sit twenty years trying to mix oil and water, and insist upon it that his happiness depended upon the result of the experiment?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be.
William Wordsworth