Top 100 Marriage Is Not Quotes
#1. Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one.
Joseph Campbell
#2. The real mystery of marriage is not that husband and wife love each other so much that they can recognize God in each other's lives, but more because God loves them so much that they can discover each other more and more as living reminder's of God's presence.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#4. Marriage is not mainly about being or staying in love. It's mainly about telling the truth with our lives. It's about portraying something true about Jesus Christ and the way He relates to his people. It is about showing in real life the glory of the gospel.
John Piper
#6. 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
#7. Marriage is not difficult ... It's dealing with the other person that makes it difficult ...
K.j. Force
#8. A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
Morris L. Ernst
#9. Marriage is not 50-50. Divorce is 50-50. Marriage has to be 100-100. It isn't dividing everything in half, but giving everything you've got!
Dave Willis
#10. There are times when marriage is not such a comfortable place ... But you find your way; you become a different person. You grow into it. And you have to work at marriage every day.
Kajol
#11. Marriage is not a static state between two unchanging people. Marriage is a psychological and spiritual journey that begins in the ecstasy of attraction, meanders through a rocky stretch of self-discovery, and culminates in the creation of an intimate, joyful, lifelong union.
Harville Hendrix
#12. The reason there is so much misery in marriage is not that husbands and wives seek their own pleasure, but that they do not seek it in the pleasure of their spouses. The biblical mandate to husbands and wives is to seek your own joy in the joy of your spouse.
John Piper
#13. Obviously, marriage is not a synonym for morality. But stable marriages and families do encourage moral behavior.
Gary Bauer
#14. My career is very important and I'm pretty ambitious. Marriage is not a priority, not the focus of my existence. Of course, you don't plan something like that, do you? It always catches you by surprise.
Megan Gallagher
#15. The ultimate purpose of marriage is not to make us happy but to glorify God.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
#16. A good marriage is not "made in heaven," but on earth. Love is a fragile commodity which needs to be cultivated and nourished constantly.
Billy Graham
#17. Marriage is not just about marrying the right person and loving each other...
It's also about having a man that got your back no matter what.
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#18. Marriage is not slavery. It is based on a love relationship deeply rooted in freedom. Each partner is free from the other and therefore free to love the other. Where there is control, or perception of control, there is not love. Love only exists where there is freedom.
Henry Cloud
#19. Marriage is not an incidental human construction but a creational reality. Any sexual ethic constructed without a clear connection to a theology of marriage is destined to be deficient.
Stanton L. Jones
#20. Marriage is not about age; it's about finding the right person.
Sophia Bush
#21. I believe marriage is not just a bond but a sacred bond between a man and a woman.
Hillary Clinton
#22. Marriage is not something that's easy, but nothing in life is easy.
Emmitt Smith
#23. While I am impulsive in many areas of my life, marriage is not one of them.
Neil Strauss
#24. The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.
Peter De Vries
#26. What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
Leo Tolstoy
#28. Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#29. Same-sex marriage is not the final nail in the coffin for traditional marriage. It is just another road sign toward the substitution of government for God. Every moral discussion now pits the wisest moral arbiters among us - the Supreme Court, President Obama - against traditional religion.
Ben Shapiro
#30. Marriage is not about finding a person you can live with, it's about finding the person you can't live without.
S.J.D. Peterson
#31. If there are trust issues during the dating period, marriage is not going to solve it! #Tip
A.H. Carlisle III
#33. Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.
Joyce Brothers
#34. In our society, marriage is not simply a governmental institution; it is a religious institution as well, today's decision might change the former, but it cannot change the latter.
Clarence Thomas
#35. Singlehood is not longer a state to be overcome as soon as possible. It has its own rewards. Marriage is not the gateway to adulthood anymore. For most people it's the dessert - desirable, but no longer the main course.
Stephanie Coontz
#36. Sooner or later they are going to live in a New York City where gay marriage is not only legal, but it's common and they don't even notice.
Anthony Weiner
#37. A marriage is not primarily a duet but a holy trio.
Adrian Rogers
#38. Marriage is not only a package of benefits - it's a status.
Amy Davidson
#41. Marriage is not a reform school ... Instead of you reforming [your spouse], [he or she] will instead influence you.
Billy Graham
#42. Marriage ... is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92)
Joseph Campbell
#43. Marriage is not for individual happiness, but for the welfare of the nation and the caste.
Swami Vivekananda
#44. Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse.
P.G. Wodehouse
#45. Let us be honest with each other. The threat to marriage is not the gays. It is a lack of loving commitment - whether it is found in the form of neglect, indifference, cruelty or adultery, to name just a few manifestations of the loveless desert in which too many marriages come to grief.
Malcolm Turnbull
#46. I don't believe that same-sex marriages would weaken heterosexual marriage. Marriage is not a scarce resource. I thought that conservatives worried about too few people choosing marriage, not too many.
Amy Davidson
#47. Marriage is not just about love and living together. It's much more complicated, especially when you are going to be making a family.
Laura Schlessinger
#48. Marriage is not merely sharing the fettucini, but sharing the burden of finding the fettucini restaurant in the first place.
Calvin Trillin
#49. Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
Amy Bloom
#50. Marriage is not the beginning of the journey, nor the end - it is the journey.
Carew Papritz
#51. Marriage is not a union merely between two creatures - it is a union between two spirits; and the intention of that bond is to perfect the nature of both.
Frederick William Robertson
#52. Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.
Oscar Wilde
#53. Marriage is not for me. I tell you that I am Blank Verse. I am talent, and I do not rhyme with Love. I am talent and I do not rhyme with man.
Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
#54. My parents did not have a perfect marriage. It was pretty good, but it was not perfect. My marriage is not perfect. My wife is, but I happen to be imperfect. However, that does not discount the fact that the definition of marriage must be defended and protected.
Stockwell Day
#55. Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people; it's also a political and economic contract of the highest order.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#56. Marriage is not something you should do just because you want to have a stable life, it's something you should do because you've run out of options.
Eugene Mirman
#57. If traditional marriage is not the law of the land, the institution of the family will cease to exist.
James Dobson
#58. Marriage is not comfortable and harmonious. Rather it is a place of individuation where a person rubs up against oneself and against the partner, bumps up against the person in love and in rejection, and in this fashion learns to know oneself, the world, good and evil, the heights and the depths.
Adolf Guggenbuhl-Craig
#59. Same-sex marriage is not a gay privilege, it's equal rights ...
Ricky Gervais
#60. A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.
Dave Meurer
#61. Affinity of a marriage is not a destination, but a journey of two hearts breezing into an yearning eternity
Bernard Dsa
#62. Marriage is not a word; it is a sentence.
King Vidor
#63. Being single isn't the cause of loneliness, and marriage is not necessarily the cure. There are many lonely married people as well.
Renee Jones
#64. Marriage is memory, marriage is time. Marriage is not only time: it is also, parodoxically, the denial of time.
Joan Didion
#65. Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.
Barbara De Angelis
#66. Marriage is not an act of services. It is a comfort man or woman seeks for himself or herself.
Mahatma Gandhi
#68. A successful marriage is not a gift; it is an achievement.
Ann Landers
#69. It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession
Thomas Hardy
#70. Marriage is not consist upon happiness, it consists upon accountability, before considering the happiness, think about the accountability
Kamaran Ihsan Salih
#71. One should marry only when one is wise enough. Marriage is not for young people. For young people is to fool around. Marriage is for those who have experienced life in many ways, who have seen all the colors, the whole spectrum of it, and are now ready to settle.
Rajneesh
#72. Remember, marriage is not a contractual arrangement. True love doesn't say, "Make me feel this way if you want me to stay." That's not love. Instead, true love says in commitment, "I'm giving myself to you regardless.
Matt Chandler
#73. I'm for gay marriage. I've been married for 14 years. Marriage is not for everybody, it's not easy and divorce is there for a reason. If a gay person wants to get married, get married.
Wendy Williams
#75. Marriage is not as necessary for survival of the species as it used to be, and it has suffered somewhat from the change.
Patricia Briggs
#76. Marriage is not only time: it is also, parodoxically, the denial of time. For forty years I saw myself through John's eyes. I did not age.
Joan Didion
#77. I am satisfied that a happy marriage is not so much a matter of romance as it is an anxious concern for the comfort and well-being of one's companion.
-Gordon B. Hinckley
Gordon B. Hinckley
#78. Love is a vessel that contains both security and adventure, and commitment offers one of the great luxuries of life: time. Marriage is not the end of romance, it is the beginning.
Esther Perel
#79. The secret of a successful marriage is not to be at home too much.
Colin Chapman
#80. Marriage is not so easy and, many a time, it is best to hold your silence if you don't want fights,
Preeti Shenoy
#81. But being in a relationship doesn't mean one has to marry.
Marriage is not always the culmination of any relationship.
Rashmi Singh
#82. Marriage is not absolutely for making children. But it is absolutely for making children followers of Jesus.
John Piper
#83. A good marriage is not one where perfection reigns: it is a relationship where a healthy perspective overlooks a multitude of "unresolvables."
James Dobson
#84. A relationship is a journey and many would think the destination is marriage. Well, no it is not! Marriage is another phase of the journey.
Olaotan Fawehinmi
#85. Problem does not lie in being a husband; the problem is with acting as a husband (being bossy).
Dada Bhagwan
#86. I know that many, if not most, women would have a problem with my acceptance of what happened with Lara.
The reality is I shall always be grateful to Lara for helping my husband when I could not do so. I couldn't have chosen a better or kinder surrogate.
Deirdre-Elizabeth Parker
#87. 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
#88. Instead of relief or gratitude, more guilt washes over me. Andy's certainly not faultless - no one ever is in a marriage
Emily Giffin
#89. A monk is not forbidden to marry, but if he takes a wife she becomes a monk with the same powers and privileges and occupies the same social position as her husband.
Swami Vivekananda
#90. Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
Boris Pasternak
#91. The marriage partner is not really the problem. No other person can ultimately make you happy. You must learn how to be happy within yourself.
Joel Osteen
#92. Old concept: Love is blind. Marriage is an eye opener. New concept: Love is not blind - it simply enables one to see things others fail to see.
Johann Sebastian Bach
#93. 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
#94. Christian marriage is marked by discipline and self-denial ... C hristianity does not therefore depreciate marriage, it sanctifies it.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#95. The goal of Christian dating is not to have a boyfriend or girlfriend but to find a spouse. Have that in mind as you get to know one an- other, and if you're not ready to commit to a relationship with the end goal of marriage, it's better not to date but simply to remain friends.
Mark Driscoll
#96. Marriage, and the process of coming to it, is not heaven! It is the bonding together of two needy sinners in order to make a partnership which is substantially greater than either of them alone.
Sinclair B. Ferguson
#97. Communication is not a one-way street.
Jim George
#98. Between a Man and his Wife nothing ought to rule but Love. Authority is for Children and Servants; yet not without Sweetness.
William Penn
#99. The central paradox and challenge of marriage is that we have to make family out of someone we're not related to ...
Ruth Stout
#100. Mom, camping is not a date; it's an endurance test. If you can survive camping with someone, you should marry them on the way home.
Yvonne Prinz
