Top 100 Marriage Is Quotes
#1. The church's teaching on marriage is unequivocal, it is uniquely, the union of a man and a woman and it is wrong that governments, politicians or parliaments should seek to alter or destroy that reality.
Keith O'Brien
#2. Marriage is no substitute for political experience.
Sharad Pawar
#3. Marriage is a lie - the most beautiful lie two people can share.
Anthony Marais
#4. It couldn't be a simpler answer. Marriage doesn't really mean anything to me. I feel like in many ways marriage is more for the families of the couple than for the people involved, so I don't gravitate to it.
Jon Hamm
#5. The very idea of marriage is basic to recognition as equals in our society; any status short of that is inferior, unjust, and unconstitutional.
Ted Olson
#6. Marriage is something we make from available materials. In this sense, it's improvised, it's almost offhand. Maybe this is why we know so little about it. It's too inspired and quicksilver a thing to be clearly understood. Two people make a blur.
Don DeLillo
#8. Marriage is like pantyhose. It all depends on what you put into it.
Phyllis Schlafly
#9. There is something wrong with our culture when the view that marriage is between one man and one woman, a view shared by half the nation, is portrayed as evidence of hatred.
Gary Bauer
#10. My marriage is incredibly important to me. It's the place from which I engage in the world every day, and the place to which I return every day.
Chelsea Clinton
#11. Marriage is grand. Divorce is about twenty grand.
Jay Leno
#12. [Marriage] is the merciless revealer, the great white searchlight turned on the darkest places of human nature.
Katherine Anne Porter
#13. When I plan to settle down, I will announce it to the world. Marriage is an occasion to celebrate. I'll celebrate it when it happens, letting everyone know about it.
Rani Mukerji
#14. To a man who was required to marry before he was allowed to have sex with his lover, marriage is a 'righteous' form of prostitution.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#16. 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
#18. But the fact that same-sex marriage is still an issue is insane. Thinking love knows a sex is ridiculous.
Garret Dillahunt
#20. Marriage is made not in ritual or in words but in the living of it.
Diana Gabaldon
#21. It is because of me - I definitely think [my show] has helped the movement. Before it came out, everyone was still a little apprehensive about [same sex relationships]. Then they realized, 'Wow, everyone is really into this stuff, and it is fine.' The next thing you know, [gay marriage] is legal.
Tila Tequila
#22. Marriage is referred to in the bible as "mystical union," and it really is in the sense that two people who don't know each other get together. I'm always interested in how much you find out about the other person and how much you don't find out.
Stephen King
#23. 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
#24. marriage is an ultimate sport in emotional multitasking. I'm never only mad at Greg. I'm mad and madly in love; angry and concerned for his wellbeing; he frustrates and delights me in the same second. We were arguing, but we were still a team.
Penny Reid
#25. 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
#26. A happy marriage is a personal choice. The same way you decide to GET married? It's the same way you decide to STAY happily married!
Ngina Otiende
#27. After a while, marriage is a sibling relationship
marked by occasional, and rather regrettable, episodes of incest.
Martin Amis
#28. Marriage is all right, but I think it's carrying love a little bit too far.
Texas Guinan
#29. I tell people marriage is a compromise, and so are renovations.
Candice Olson
#30. Marriage is about the most expensive way for the average man to get his laundry done.
Burt Reynolds
#32. The secret of a happy marriage is to serve God and each other.
Ezra Taft Benson
#33. Marriage is the learning of someone else's habits.
Laurel Lea
#35. Supporting the definition of marriage as one man and one woman is not anti-gay: it is pro-traditional marriage. And if support for traditional marriage is bigotry, then Barack Obama was a bigot until just before the 2012 election.
Marco Rubio
#37. I don't want to be someone that you're settling for. I don't want to be someone that anyone settles for. Marriage is hard enough without bringing such low expectations into it, isn't it?
Nora Ephron
#38. I think that marriage is an amazing institution and should be preserved, and you can have great marriages, and you must because sharing your life with someone is like the greatest thing. And I loved being able to set a good example for that on television.
Jenna Elfman
#39. Marriage is the union of two people who arrive toting the luggage of life. And that luggage always contains sin.
Dave Harvey
#40. Marriage is about compromise; it's about doing something for the other person, even when you don't want to.
Nicholas Sparks
#41. Marriage is what happens when one at least of the partners doesn't want the other to get away.
Fay Weldon
#43. A very wise person once told me marriage is hard, that you have to keep fighting for it everyday.
Liz Fenton
#44. 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
#45. Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.
Oscar Wilde
#46. Marriage is a psychological condition, not a civil contract and a license. Once a marriage is dead, it is dead, and it begins to stink faster than a dead fish.
Robert A. Heinlein
#47. 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
#48. Marriage is a strange combination of dream and reality, and we spend our lives as couples trying to negotiate that divide.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#49. Marriage is a fight to the death. Before contracting it, the two parties concerned implore the benediction of Heaven because to promise to love each other forever is the rashest of enterprises.
Honore De Balzac
#50. I could only see you. I only wanted to be with you. But marriage is never just two people, is it? It's so much more.
Amanda McCabe
#51. People want to believe that every marriage is perfect balance but it isn't. One person always loves more deeply than the other
Nicholas Sparks
#52. 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
#53. Even when we are screaming and throwing things, we are friends. Who is the man and who is the woman? Sometimes neither of us knows. The marriage is androgynous
like the closest friendships. It will keep.
Erica Jong
#54. Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humbug.
Max Frisch
#55. I'm sure in the past I've said marriage is stupid. Marriage makes someone sign a contract promising something they really can't deliver. I'm sure I will again say marriage is dumb. But I can also imagine why it could be lovely. There's something beautiful about truly being there for another person.
Amy Schumer
#56. Marriage is the strangest thing. Almost without realizing it, I feel as if our lives and our hearts became knitted together.
Sylvain Reynard
#57. The way to an ordinary marriage is the path of least resistance. If you want an extraordinary marriage, you will have to choose it.
Justin Davis
#58. Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.
G.K. Chesterton
#59. The Christian church does not ask the U. S. Supreme Court, or any other human court, what marriage is. Marriage is a pre-political institution defined by our Creator - for His glory and for human flourishing.
Albert Mohler
#61. I believe that marriage is the union between a man and a woman. Now, for me as a Christian - for me - for me as a Christian, it is also a sacred union. God's in the mix.
Barack Obama
#62. Marriage is a big word for all guys," Shane said. "You know that. It's kind of an allergy. We get itchy and sweaty just trying to spell it, much less do it.
Rachel Caine
#63. A perfect marriage is just two imperfect people who refuse to give up on each other.
Dave Willis
#64. Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people; it's also a political and economic contract of the highest order.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#66. Each marriage is a living thing, just as complex as the two individuals within it.
Penny Reid
#67. I've always deplored bad heterosexual values that dictate the minute a marriage is over the former partners no longer speak to each other; only straights could be so cruel and inhuman as to reject totally the person with whom they've shared their life for 20 or 30 years.
Edmund White
#68. The secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.
Bette Davis
#69. To have peace and love in a marriage is a gift that is next to the knowledge of the gospel.
Martin Luther
#70. Marriage is the connecting of the two: Without passion it's just friendship; without friendship it's just lust.
Donna Lynn Hope
#71. Marriage is a wonderful invention; but then again so is a bicycle repair kit.
Billy Connolly
#73. In many ways, the crumbling of the institution of marriage is the real 'war on women.' Marriage is the civilizing influence for men and for families.
Tim Huelskamp
#75. Marriage is a financial contract; I have enough contracts already.
Linda Fiorentino
#76. Marriage is a contract between 2 people male and female;doing what it takes to make the union work until death due them apart
Martellis Thurmand
#77. If you think marriage is going to be perfect, you're probably still at your reception.
Martha Bolton
#78. I think many times in relationships as it escalates to marriage, what it takes to breed a marriage, is the same thing that it takes to breed a career.
Derek Luke
#79. An unhappy marriage is neither your business nor your concern.
Anthony Riches
#80. Marriage is tolerable enough in its way if youre easygoing and dont expect too much from it. But it doesnt bear thinking about.
George Bernard Shaw
#81. I believe in marriage. I believe marriage is a really important institution, it's one of the most important institutions we have.
Theresa May
#82. Marriage is like a toothbrush. It starts out smooth and gets kind of prickly towards the end.
Lois Greiman
#83. The key to a good marriage is to do all you can to uplift your wife and treasure her - even in her worst moments.
Jody Hedlund
#84. When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity.
Robert Anton Wilson
#85. Any woman who still thinks marriage is a fifty-fifty proposition is only proving that she doesn't understand either men or percentages.
Florynce Kennedy
#86. Marriage is the last sacrament available to modern man, and with the terrible destruction of interpersonal relations by capitalism and its war-making State, it is not very available, nor is it surely enduring. But then, vision does not come with guarantees.
Kenneth Rexroth
#87. I believe one of the best preparations for marriage is participating in a small group. If a person has learned to be intimate and honest with a few friends before they get married, they will have less reason to fear intimacy after they are married.
Andy Stanley
#88. All too often people concentrate on finding the right spouse, little realizing that half of any marriage is being the right spouse.
Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi
#89. 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
#90. Any man," she muttered, "who wanted to marry into the Hathaway family after this should be shut away in an institution."
"Marriage is an institution," he said.
Lisa Kleypas
#91. The interesting thing for me about the debate about same-sex marriage is that it's one of those issues where it has no impact on anyone apart from the people that it impacts upon. So I find it quite bewildering that it's - that it's so complicated for people.
Cate Blanchett
#93. Marriage is one of the most important institutions we have, it binds society and families together, it is a building block that promotes stability. This bill supports and cultivates marriage.
Maria Miller
#94. Do not mistake the history you have shared for the slightest understanding of what our marriage is, or how insignificant you are in comparison.
Frank Underwood
#95. I think that marriage is beautiful. And if it's a partnership with someone you love, then it really is beautiful. Yeah, I think that marriage does work.
Alicia Keys
#96. Marriage is like a vacuum cleaner. You stick it to your ear and it sucks out all your energy and ambition.
Marlo Thomas
#97. Whatever's missing in your relationship, including a marriage, is what you're not bringing to it.
Nadine Velazquez
#98. Marriage is like mushrooms: we notice too late if they are good or bad.
Woody Allen
#99. If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
Johnny Carson
#100. Marriage is the aim and end of all sensible girls, because it is the meaning of life.
Elinor Glyn
