First Marriage Quotes

#1. I was not a good father in my first marriage. Although there are ways of deserting the family without leaving physically, I was deserted in my head. I was always out, always in the saloons, always drinking, always messing about.

Malachy McCourt

#2. I was gone so much in my first marriage. I love the moments when I engage with my youngest daughter now. It's not my thing to sit on the ground and play tea party, but I'll do it because it's a moment that will stick with me forever.

Tim Allen

#3. I figure no matter how old you are, it's always going to be your first marriage and no life experience is going to make you a better judge of who you should marry.

Utada Hikaru

#4. You're never healing the level you're on. You're always healing the level you came from. For example, you know things today that you didn't know in your first marriage.

Iyanla Vanzant

#5. When I started caregiving, I was not on very firm ground. My first marriage had dissolved. I was working at an ice-cream stand in my thirties. I learned that when you don't have anything to give, that's when you really give, and then you get back so much more.

Jonathan Evison

#6. Pop, why didn't you ever marry again?"
"I was a good husband to your mother," Pop said. "I would not be a good husband to another woman. It would not be fair, because I gave everything I had to my first marriage. Love is like that for some people.

Susan Wiggs

#7. I swear Kim Kardashian's first marriage lasted longer than some of my iPhone chargers.

Lilly Singh

#8. In fact, we'd discussed marriage on several occasions just because we seemed to get along so well, but after thinking long and hard, I realized it was not in my best interest to waste my first marriage on a gay man.

Chelsea Handler

#9. The alcoholism got me and I ruined my first marriage with drinking and the lying and the deceit and infidelity, and all of that. The whole bloody thing.

Malachy McCourt

#10. My first marriage ended after 24 years.

Jerry Della Femina

#11. My first marriage was very traditional, in the church, and then we left the church and went to the reception hall. So this time, I'd like to go fairy tale all the way.

NeNe Leakes

#12. Her first marriage, a distressing experience involving an umbrella, had to be annulled.

Michael Holroyd

#13. We are told to seek first the kingdom of God, not seek first marriage.

Gary L. Thomas

#14. I was born in Belgium on 6 November 1932. I am married to Mira Nikomarow and have five children: Michele, Anne, Georges, from a first marriage with Esther Dujardin, and Sarah, Helene from a second one with Danielle Vindal.

Francois Englert

#15. My first marriage was totally unsuitable and shouldn't have happened. It was a whirlwind, rebound thing. I was 23 or 24 - a baby.

Carol Vorderman

#16. Lady Sondes' match surprises, but does not offend me; had her
first marriage been of affection, or had their been a grown-updaughter, I should not have forgiven her; but I consider
everybody as having a right to marry once in their lives for
love, if they can.

Jane Austen

#17. I was raised on government cheese. As an adult, in my first marriage, my husband and I worked real hard just to go bankrupt. I happened to write some jokes about it. I did real well for myself.

Roseanne Barr

#18. Mona told herself that even if her recent feelings were a delusion, they were by far preferable to the thirty years of immaculate deception she had suffered in her first marriage. Yet she had to forgive Akbar Ahmad - perhaps because he was already dead.

Musharraf Ali Farooqi

#19. The thing is, when I had my first success it did coincide with the end of my first marriage, and because I went on to have a very, very unhappy two years, I don't think I equate career success with personal happiness.

Rob Brydon

#20. I went into my first marriage, blank to the schemes of love.

Colum McCann

#21. First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment.

Maximilian Schell

#22. Today the average age of first marriage is about twenty-seven for women and twenty-nine for men, and it's around thirty for both men and women in big cities like New York and Philadelphia.

Aziz Ansari

#23. I think I tried to control situations within my first marriage and I wasn't the easiest person to live with.

Gary Kemp

#24. On page 607, alluding to the end of my first marriage (and carefully remembering to state that that's none of his business), he very sweetly says that I 'might leave a wife, but not a friend.' Nice try. Neat smear. But he shouldn't be so sure ...

Christopher Hitchens

#25. When your first marriage goes into tragedy, you become very battle-scarred ... I even thought of suicide. Luckily, I had known some happy marriages.

Paul Engle

#26. A significant minority of senior women I've interviewed say, 'Love the companionship, glad to live with him, but I spent my first marriage picking up after a man and I'm not going to do that anymore.

Stephanie Coontz

#27. I jest, of course; premature ejaculation isn't a laughing matter for anyone, except for your friends when you tell them about it on the phone the next morning. My first marriage ended because the main event was invariably over before my husband got his socks off.

Julie Burchill

#28. My older sister was at the cusp of new wave, and I had older brothers from my father's first marriage who were rock 'n' roll guys, so I was exposed to a lot of popular culture.

Paul Thomas Anderson

#29. Maybe the difference between first marriage and second marriage is that the second time at least you know you are gambling.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#30. Jeremy, Good luck on your first marriage.

David Sedaris

#31. Even though my first marriage broke up, I'd say that I've had two good marriages and two good men. I've been very lucky. I like to think it's karma because, in a relationship, I give 300 per cent. I'm straight with my men, and I like to think it comes back.

Suzi Quatro

#32. Only after I faced the unhappiness of my first marriage did I start on the path of personal growth.

Judith Wright

#33. My first marriage was not happy. I married him because I was impressed that he knew which wines to order and how to leave his visiting card. Ridiculous reasons.

Jean Seberg

#34. Not for the first time Spooner was reminded that marriage was not the straighforward assembly the instruction book led you to believe.

Pete Dexter

#35. It's not unlike a marriage, the partnership. All the effort and good intentions in the world can't make things right if you choose poorly in the first place.

Cecilia Grant

#36. Repentance is the first step on the path back to your relationship with God.

Jim George

#37. The First and Worst sin couples commit against one another is not adultery but Negligence because it's Negligence that breeds adultery..watch it couples , do not hold back in giving that care and attention.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#38. Take control from the moment you step in her place. She'll be pleasantly surprised and impressed.

Auliq Ice

#39. I ate all of my husbands. First I ate their love, then their will, then their despair, and then I made pies of their bodies - and those bodies were so dear to me!

Catherynne M Valente

#40. My first singing role was as Susanna in a school production in a shortened form of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro. I loved to sing and I was given lots of encouragement by a wonderful music teacher Mrs Ann Hill and by my parents who suggested I go to drama school.

Elaine Paige

#41. Anyone who believes we're living in a postfeminist age will learn that violence against females - from female infanticide and child marriage to honor killings and sex trafficking - has now produced a world with fewer females than males, a first in recorded history.

Gloria Steinem

#42. The only man meant to be in your life is a man that knows your worth.

Shannon L. Alder

#43. This, for eternity. He closed his eyes and wished. Her eyelashes on his cheek, her thighs on his waist, the first consummation of this terrifying thing they'd done. Marriage meant forever.

Lauren Groff

#44. Unless the law of marriage were first made human, it could never become divine.

George Bernard Shaw

#45. He said, I always thought the woman I'd marry would hit me easy, in a bolt of lightning, and there is not lightning there is not even thunder there is not even rain.

Aimee Bender

#46. Honey, what happened to "ladies first"? Husband replies, "That's the reason why the worlds a mess today, because a lady went first!"

David Letterman

#47. I thought it was love. No, it wasn't. It was marriage

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#48. The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.

John Updike

#49. There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.

Norman Mailer

#50. Felt like yesterday, all that bodily joy. Begun so young they didn't even know what they were doing and they wouldn't give it up, so when they were old enough, they married. Not the worst thing to build a marriage around, such juice. The first years had been delirious, the latter ones merely happy.

Lauren Groff

#51. the strong opinions I entertained against the marriage of first cousins,

J. Sheridan Le Fanu

#52. Pot came first when I was young. But I did the work. It wasn't a battle of what came first. They went together like "love and marriage, horse and carriage!"

John Waters

#53. All my life, in nameless, indeterminate ways, I'd tried to complete my life with someone else
first my father, then Hugh, even Whit, and I didn't want that anymore. I wanted to belong to myself.

Sue Monk Kidd

#54. I assumed my first undivided responsibility.

Charles Dickens

#55. Satan's first appearance in the Bible included an attack on a marriage - trying to divide Adam and Eve. His tactics have not changed. He wants our marriages to flounder and fail, because he knows that few things will discourage us more.

Billy Graham

#56. The first class opposition that appears in history coincides with the development of the antagonism between man and woman in monogamous marriage, and the first class oppression coincides with that of the female sex by the male.

Friedrich Engels

#57. God lures us into marriage through love and sex and loneliness, or simply the fact that someone finally paid attention - all those reasons that you got married in the first place. It doesn't really matter, he'll do whatever it takes. He lures us into marriage and then he uses it to transform us.

John Eldredge

#58. Would you marry you? Be the right person before seeking the right person. Solomon's bride is carefully chosen for the good of his family, for the good of his kingdom.
pg 9

Michael Ben Zehabe

#59. They had a house there below Kelsha, one of the old mud-walled jobs, that has long disappeared back into its garden of fuchsia and orange lilies that the mother herself had planted in her first days of marriage, as women do in their gardens, all full of hope.

Sebastian Barry

#60. Marriage does not serve primarily to accommodate or to mitigate social tragedy of this sort. Its principal function is to prevent or limit the occurrence of such tragedies in the first place.

Jean Bethke Elshtain

#61. A wedding invitation is sent by people who have been saying, "Do we have to ask them?" to people whose first response is, "How much do you think we have to spend on them?

Judith Martin

#62. Yes: but aren't love and marriage notoriously synonymous in the minds of most women? Certainly very few men get the first without promising the second: love, that is
if it's just a matter of spreading her legs, almost any woman will do that for nothing.

Truman Capote

#63. Men like to flirt with, and sometimes even date a wild child, but those women aren't usually first on their lists for marriage or motherhood.

Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#64. The only marriage I've observed for any length of time is my parents - 35 years. I asked my pop, I go, 'Pop, 35 years - what do you hope for?' He's like, 'I hope you die first.'

Adam Ferrara

#65. A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

Honore De Balzac

#66. When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was, biology and anthropology. I was around 16 years old when I made this particular choice of academic pursuit.

Donald Johanson

#67. You lose a child and you do understand each other's grief at first, but if you get out of step with each other, it's all over. Suddenly each of you is alone.

Alison Bruce

#68. Most ladies do not understand that first and primary they need to find and fulfil their life calling

Sunday Adelaja

#69. With the first line of Mehendi, she forgot her troubles and delved into the beautiful world of checkered patterns and intricate lines.

Sumeetha Manikandan

#70. We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want a family so we'll have to start thinking about that.

Prince William

#71. To us marriage is first, everything else is second.

Julie Benz

#72. There's something about marriage that is not as intensely romantic or interesting as a couple's first meeting.

John Sandford

#73. At first I was exhilarated by my freedom from the responsibility of the kingship. This lasted about seven minutes. I was also depressed by my freedom from marriage, for I had become accustomed to the attentions of a woman. This lasted about nine minutes. Then I was bored.

Piers Anthony

#74. First, I was opposed to gay marriage because it seemed like one more way that gays were wanting to assimilate. When I realized the Christian right was so opposed to it, as well as tyrannical governments in Africa and Russia, I thought, 'It must be a good thing to fight for.'

Edmund White

#75. I would love to get married, first of all, from my children's perspective. People don't think of children when they think of gay marriage, but I do have children, and for them to see their family validated as other families are validated and protected by our government, yes.

Judy Gold

#76. I received a gift
it was the first decent piece of instruction about marriage I had ever been given in my 25 years of live. Does your husband make you a better person?

Ann Patchett

#77. With marriage, you've just got to stick it out. You can't jump off the boat at the first bump in the waves.

Ozzy Osbourne

#78. When a couple turns domestic, for the first while having to talk about the need for aluminum eaves troughing and other matters only gets in the way of the relationship. Then, magically, these negotiations take the place of the relationship.

Marni Jackson

#79. I have heard from people that the first year of marriage is the toughest. Brie [Bella] and I have definitely had our share of life difficulties with me having neck surgery and that sort of thing, but things are going really well and it is getting better after year one and that is phenomenal.

Daniel Bryan

#80. Johnny and Marissa, sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G. First comes love, then comes marriage. Then comes an abrupt, tragic miscarriage. Then comes blame, then comes despair. Two hearts damaged beyond repair... Johnny leaves Marissa, and takes the tree. D-I-V-O-R-C-E.

Kris Wilson

#81. Attainment is followed by neglect, possession by disgust, and the malicious remark of the Greek epigrammatist on marriage may be applied to many another course of life, that its two days of happiness are the first and the last

Samuel Johnson

#82. The best thing about flying first class ... was that you could be as nutty as a fruitcake and were still treated like the Queen of Sheba.

Sarah-Kate Lynch

#83. Some Englishman once said marriage is a long dull meak with pudding served first

Julian Barnes

#84. A husband and wife found themselves in love with each other for the first time after twenty-seven years of marriage.

Honore De Balzac

#85. Live each day as if it were the first day of marriage and the last day of vacation.

Unknown Author 47

#86. So many pleasing episodes of one's life are spoiled by shouting. You never heard of an unhappy marriage unless the neighbors have heard it first.

Lillian Russell

#87. The First Bond of Society is Marriage.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#88. For the first year of marriage I had basically a bad attitude. I tended to place my wife underneath a pedestal.

Woody Allen

#89. A few of us always compared anything good to: ' Isn't it just like camp?' When we first got married, we asked each other, 'Was your honeymoon good?' 'Yeah. It was just like camp.

Laurie Kahn

#90. I married my first husband for love, my second husband for adventure, and my third husband for laffs.

Carolyn V. Hamilton

#91. There isn't much difference between "giving" and "leaving". While the former will ALWAYS come back to you, the latter will only do if it was meant to be yours in the first place.

Olaotan Fawehinmi

#92. When David Arquette and I got engaged we started therapy together. I'd heard that the first year of marriage is the hardest, so we decided to work through all that stuff early.

Courteney Cox

#93. It used to be almost the first question (just after 'Can you type?') in the standard female job interview: 'Are you now, or have you ever, contemplated marriage, motherhood, or the violent overthrow of the U.S. government?

Barbara Ehrenreich

#94. Being in a successful marriage is no different than being cast in a successful movie. It's all about who you pick; in that first moment, did you pick the right person? I think you need to pick somebody who's more interested in being married than in getting married.

Rob Lowe

#95. The social institution of marriage is first and foremost a covenant relationship in which a man and a woman pledge themselves to each other for a lifetime partnership. In the biblical account of creation, God's expressed

Gary Chapman

#96. On three great bonds of love do all cultures depend: the love between man and woman in marriage; the love between a mother and her child; and the camaraderie among men, a bond that used to be strong enough to move mountains. The first two have suffered greatly; the third has almost ceased to exist.

Anthony M. Esolen

#97. Did you really look at the word Engaged, use to be first you go Steady then buy a ring then the woman was so happy that you became 'Engaged'.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#98. He had put them [his family] first by coming home [to India] and the irony was that they had put him first by arranging this marriage. He had walked into it with his eyes open. But his eyes had been open too long in the West and by the time he adjusted his vision to India, it was too late.

Anne Cherian

#99. First the husband tried to make the wife his possession, and once she is a possession he loses interest. There is some hidden logic in it: his whole interet was to possess; now that is finished, and he would like to try some other woman so he can again go on another trip of possesion.

Osho

#100. It was protective, on her side; sprang from a sense of being in league together, a presentiment of something that was bound to part them (they spoke of marriage always as a catastrophe), which led to this chivalry, this protective feeling which was much more on her side than Sally's.

Virginia Woolf