Top 100 Marriage Is Like Quotes
#1. Obama sees himself as such a huge change that he can be cautious about other societal changes. But what he doesn't realize is that legalizing gay marriage is like electing a black president. Before you do it, it seems inconceivable. Once it's done, you can't remember what all the fuss was about.
Maureen Dowd
#2. Marriage is like war - an experience that no adventurous man would evade, and no sensible man repeat.
Ursula Parrott
#3. No one knows what a marriage is like except the two people in it - and sometimes one of them doesn't know.
Ann Landers
#4. Newlyweds, they have this ideal, this picture of what marriage is like, something similar of their favorite memories growing up. If only it were that simple.
William Taylor
#5. A witty vicar once said that a good marriage is like a pair of scissors with the couple inseparable joined, often moving in opposite directions, yet always destroying anyone who comes between them. The trick is for the blades to learn to work smoothly together, so as not to cut each other.
Mary Jo Putney
#7. You know marriage is like hunger. You yearn for it till you don't get the food. Once the stomach is full, you don't want more on your plate. But then hunger can subside only temporarily. It keeps coming back and that's how exactly a happy married life keeps going on, with all ups and downs.
Shikha Kaul
#8. To me, same-sex marriage is like the new normal. I don't give a sh*t. If two gay people want to get married it doesn't bother me. If two people say they love each other and they want to be together, they should be together. Don't you think?
NeNe Leakes
#10. Marriage is like democracy - it doesn't really work, but it's all we've been able to come up with ...
Shirley Hazzard
#11. Marriage is like a well-built porch. If one of the two posts leans too much, the porch collapses. So each must be strong enough to stand on its own.
Deb Caletti
#12. Marriage is like a dull meal with the dessert at the beginning.
Denis Leary
#13. Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.
Jerry Seinfeld
#14. Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.
J.B. Priestley
#15. When it is time to part, then it is time to part. There should be no regrets. The beauty of marriage is like the fleeting perfection of a snowflake.
Ming-Dao Deng
#16. [Marriage is] like signing a 356-page contract without knowing what's in it.
Ken Blanchard
#18. Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#19. Marriage is like a tense, unfunny version of Everybody Loves Raymond, only it doesn't last 22 minutes. It lasts forever.
Paul Rudd
#20. Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#21. Marriage is like the witness protection programme: you get all new clothes, you live in the suburbs, and you're not allowed to see your friends anymore.
Jeremy Hardy
#22. Trying to describe a good marriage is like trying to describe your adrenal glands. You know they're in there functioning but you don't really understand how they work.
Helen Gurley Brown
#23. A bad marriage is like an electrical thrilling machine: it makes you dance, but you can't let go.
Ambrose Bierce
#24. Marriage is like a book. The whole story takes place between the covers.
Mae West
#26. The first year of marriage is like wet cement - the impressions made in it are much harder to change once it has set.
Robert Wolgemuth
#27. Marriage is like a cage one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out ...
Michel De Montaigne
#28. Marriage is like a table with four legs - the couple, the children, the parents and the in-laws. Break any of these and the marriage crashes to the floor
Siddharth Katragadda
#29. Modern American marriage is like a wire fence. The woman's the wire -the posts are the husband's.
Langdon Elwyn Mitchell
#30. Marriage is like a fine aged wine. It has to endure its Time of Fermenting before its full-bodied Flavor and Bouquetcan be appreciate.
Mary Summer Rain
#31. Any friendship that is worth its weight is like a dark and secret place where you hide bits of yourself. The door can be opened only by the two people who have the key, and you carry it with you wherever you go. Magnify that by a billion, and you begin to get an idea of what marriage is like.
Damien Echols
#32. I suspect that marriage is like parenthood: every last one of us is an amateur at it ...
Anne Tyler
#33. Marriage is like pleading guilty to an indefinite sentence. Without parole.
John Mortimer
#34. A first-rate marriage is like a first-rate hotel: expensive, but worth it.
Mignon McLaughlin
#35. A marriage is like a long trip in a tiny row boat: if one passenger starts to rock the boat, the other has to steady it, otherwise, they will go to the bottom together.
David Reuben
#36. Marriage is like calculus. Complicated and inexplicably remote. People think it's about loving one another and riding off into the sunset, but no one tells you the horse is lame or that it's an eclipse, and there won't be a sunset that day.
Kristin Billerbeck
#37. As soon as you say 'I do,' you'll discover that marriage is like a car. Both of you might be sitting in the front seat, but only one of you is driving. And most marriages are more like a motorcycle than a car. Somebody has to sit in the back, and you have to yell just to be heard.
Wanda Sykes
#38. Marriage is like a long conversation that always ends too soon.
Cassandra Clare
#39. Marriage is like retiring as a bachelor and getting a sexual pension. You don't have to work for the sex any more, but you only get 65% as much.
Aristotle.
#40. Marriage is like a magnifying glass. It simply magnifies the misery or the happiness that you had as a single person.
Bo Sanchez
#41. Marriage is like a violin. After the beautiful music is over, the strings are still attached.
Jacob Braude
#42. Marriage is like a row boat: it fits two, it doesn't work on auto-pilot and it's very difficult to have sex in.
Dana Gould
#43. Marriage is like a three-speed gearbox affection, friendship, love. It is not advisable to crash your gears and go right through to love straightaway. You need to ease your way through. The basis of love is respect, and that needs to be learned from affection and friendship.
Peter Ustinov
#44. Placing blame in marriage is like saying, 'Your side of the boat is sinking.'
Hank Smith
#45. Marriage is like pantyhose. It all depends on what you put into it.
Phyllis Schlafly
#46. Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.
Bruce Willis
#48. It is the first shower that wets."
"Marriage is like picking the place where you're going to live for the next fifty years by using a wall map, a blind fold, and what you really, truly, deeply believe is your lucky dart."
"Our marriage, like all marriages, was happy until it wasn't
Tom McNeal
#49. Marriage is like a barbecue. When you light a barbecue, it's very exciting to see the flames. That's lovely, but you have to wait until the flames have died down. Everything that you want from a barbecue happens on the hot embers. You can't cook on those flames.
Howard Jacobson
#50. Marriage is like a toothbrush. It starts out smooth and gets kind of prickly towards the end.
Lois Greiman
#51. Marriage is like a vacuum cleaner. You stick it to your ear and it sucks out all your energy and ambition.
Marlo Thomas
#52. Marriage is like mushrooms: we notice too late if they are good or bad.
Woody Allen
#53. Marriage is like a hot bath; once you get used to it, it ain't so hot.
Minnie Pearl
#54. Organizing a marriage is like forming a government after a war.
David Foenkinos
#55. Look after each other. As a couple. When you have kids, you'll want to put them first. Don't. Marriage is like a plant. To keep it alive you've got to water it and feed it. If you don't, when the kids are gone, you'll look in the corner and it'll be dead.
Nicholas Evans
#56. You see, Marriage is like a Coffin, and each Kid is another Nail.
Matt Groening
#57. A good marriage is like Dr Who's Tardis: small and banal from the outside but spacious and interesting from within.
Katharine Whitehorn
#58. Marriage is like the Middle East, isn't it? There's no solution.
Willy Russell
#59. Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
Irwin Corey
#61. A good marriage is like an incredible retirement fund. You put everything you have into it during your productive life, and over the years it turns from silver to gold to platinum.
Willard Scott
#63. Marriage is like a 5,000- piece jigsaw of the sky.
Cathy Ladman
#64. Marriage is very difficult. Marriage is like a five-thousand-piece jigsaw puzzle, all sky.
Cathy Ladman
#65. Remember, a good marriage is like a campfire. Both grow cold if left unattended.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#66. Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.
Helen Rowland
#67. Marriage is like a series of opposing reflections, inverse images getting ever smaller like nesting dolls, each one of your trying to squeeze yourself smaller to fit inside the hopes of the other, until one of you cracks or stops existing.
Jacob M. Appel
#68. For marriage is like life in this - that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#69. Marriage is like a temple resting on two pillars. If they come too close to each other the temple will collapse.
Khalil Gibran
#70. Sex in marriage is like medicine. Three times a day for the first week. Then once a day for another week. Then once every three or four days till the condition clears up.
Peter De Vries
#71. Marriage is like a golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.
Khalil Gibran
#72. Marriage is what you make of it, and God has many versions of what that looks like based on what different souls need, in order to grow.
Shannon L. Alder
#73. It's funny - I read that women look to chiseled-faced guys for one-night stands, and to round-faced guys for marriage. When I'm rounder in the face, I like to say, 'This is my long-term look.' Or 'This is my wife-and-kids look right here.'
Garrett Hedlund
#74. I often think we do not take this business of photography in a sufficiently serious spirit. Issuing a photograph is like marriage: you can only undo the mischief with infinite woe ...
H.G.Wells
#75. I liked, as I like still, to make words look self-conscious and foolish, to bind them by mock marriage of a pun, to turn them inside out, to come upon them unawares. What is this jest in majesty? This ass in passion? How do god and devil combine to form a live dog?
Vladimir Nabokov
#76. Waking up next to you is what I like the most, knowing that you belong only to me makes me very happy. Being with you is all I need to be happy.
Auliq Ice
#78. For two people to commit themselves not simply to marriage, but to a lifetime of mutual love and submission in imitation of Christ is so astounding, so mysterious, it comes close to looking like Jesus' stubborn love for the church.
Rachel Held Evans
#79. A dog is much like a married man, obeying his master's voice for the sake of his master's touch.
Robert Breault
#80. I come to the point of using steel, and simply cannot. It's like the marriage proposal of a perfectly eligible man who just isn't loveable. It is wood I love.
Anne Truitt
#81. Am I really admitting that my sister is determined to marry a man she has only seen once and doesn't much like the look of? It is half real and half pretense - and I have an idea that it is a game most girls play when they meet an eligible young men. They just ... wonder.
Dodie Smith
#82. Giving the cat a name, like marriage, is not an easy thing. Soon I experienced the selection of name for a baby, a dog, a book, a warship, a sports team, even the king, the pope or a hurricane is just child's play compared to the selection of the cat's name.
Cleveland Amory
#83. He remembers which sister
I like least and asks
how she is doing.
(lines 9-11 of the poem 'Divorce')
Carrie Etter
#84. How old is too old to stop believing in, like, the tooth fairy? Like 12? I've got a cousin who is 18 ... Yeah, still believes in gay marriage.
Bo Burnham
#85. The story of my marriage, which is the great joy and astonishment of my life, is too much like a fairy tale, the German kind, unsweetened by Disney.
Ann Patchett
#86. A husband is a man who two minutes after his head touches the pillow is snoring like an overloaded omnibus.
Ogden Nash
#87. Sometimes I even feel funny to say I'm in a biracial marriage because people are like, 'Oh, he's Asian?' The subtext is, 'Who cares? You didn't marry a black person.'
Diane Farr
#88. Crucial to understanding federalism in modern day America is the concept of mobility, or 'the ability to vote with your feet.' If you don't support the death penalty and citizens packing a pistol - don't come to Texas. If you don't like medicinal marijuana and gay marriage, don't move to California.
Rick Perry
#89. According to the old joke, married people are often like little boys bathing, who cry with chattering teeth to the boys on the shore, 'Do come in, it's so warm' - it is not always warm.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
#90. Arguments escalate when we want to be right more than we want to be CHRIST. It's easy to get blinded in the heat of disagreement. Soon, all we want is to win. Even if victory requires sin. The one who wins the argument is usually the one who acts LESS like Christ.
Francis Chan
#91. There is nothing like marriage, for two who love one another.
Ibn Majah
#92. Marriage is an arrangement between like-minded parties. It's a partnership, not a love affair. I never lied to you or kept anything of importance from you.She looked at him then, almost stunned, as if she didn't recognize him.
He didn't like it. Not at all.
Mira Lyn Kelly
#93. Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.
E.W. Howe
#94. Unhappiness is like marriage. We believe we chose it, but then it is choosing us. That is how it is, we can do nothing about it.
Albert Camus
#95. Death is a funny thing. Not funny haha, like a Woody Allen movie, but funny strange, like a Woody Allen marriage.
Norm MacDonald
#96. After a while in marriage, it doesn't work anymore. There is something missing, there is something wrong. There are few marriages that stay alive forever. We like something, and after a while, we hate what we used to love.
Monica Bellucci
#97. Oh dear ... it really is rather disillusioning. When one's friends marry for money they are wretched, when they marry for love it is worse. What is the proper thing to marry for, I should like to know?
Nancy Mitford
#98. Marriage is much like wine. They both mature slowly and grow deeper and more complex with time.
Mia Sheridan
#99. Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.
Robert Graves
#100. 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
