Top 100 Marriage Isn't Quotes
#1. Marriage isn't a tram. It doesn't have to get anywhere.
Iris Murdoch
#2. Marriage. Isn't it great? Each time you fall back in love with your [spouse] it gets better and better.
Fannie Flagg
#3. Marriage isn't all that it's cracked up to be. Let me tell you, honestly. Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce.
Larry Gelbart
#4. Marriage isn't just a choice. It's choosing the same person a million times.
Danny Silk
#5. Marriage isn't what it was. It's become a different thing because women have become human beings.
H.G.Wells
#6. My dear, don't be foolish, there's nothing strange about you, someday you may meet a man you can love. And supposing you don't, well, what of it, Stephen? Marriage isn't the only career for a woman.
Radclyffe Hall
#7. Take it from me, marriage isn't a word - it's a sentence.
King Vidor
#8. Marriage isn't something you agree to do one day, and if things don't go right, then it's over.
Faith Hill
#9. The London season is like one of those Drury Lane melodramas in which marriage is always the ending. And no one ever seems to give any thought as to what happens after. But marriage isn't the end of the story it's the beginning. And it demands the efforts of both partners to make a success of it.
Lisa Kleypas
#10. I don't want someone who's just with me until things get a little too difficult, or something better comes along, or marriage isn't as much fun as it used to be. I want the real thing-for better or worse, rich, poor, sickness, health, forever and ever, amen.
Lisa Wingate
#11. Marriage isn't easy, Andy," he says. "You love someone in a specific time and place. But you have no idea what they'll become. People change. Sometimes, they change so much you hardly even recognize them anymore." For
Matthew Norman
#12. I love being in a relationship, but marriage isn't for me.
Arsenio Hall
#13. Marriage isn't a 50-50 proposition very often. It's more like 100-0 one moment and 0-100 the next.
Billie Jean King
#14. Lighten up," I said. "Marriage isn't a sacrament. It's just a bunch of forms to fill out.
Anonymous
#15. Marriage isn't about rights as much as it is about revelation.
Gary Thomas
#16. A successful marriage isn't necessarily one that lasts until you're dead.
Ellen Barkin
#17. I want you to know that marriage isn't for you. No true relationship of love is for you. Love is about the person you love.
Seth Adam Smith
#18. For many, the point of marriage isn't so much to be in love as to stop having to think of love.
Alain De Botton
#19. Gay Marriage isn't Special Rights, it's Equal Rights. 'Special Rights' are for political churches that don't pay taxes.
John Fugelsang
#20. To say I drank my way into marriage isn't much of an exaggeration, and it's none at all to say I drank my way out of it.
Lawrence Block
#22. Marriage isn't what people think it is. People want to believe that every marriage is this perfect balance,
Nicholas Sparks
#23. After 40 years of marriage, isn't it amazing when you can look at your partner sound asleep next to you and still believe they have potential.
Kaylin McFarren
#24. A good marriage isn't something you find; it's something you make.
Gary L. Thomas
#25. Marriage isn't just domesticity, or the continuance of the race, or institutionalized sex, or a form of property right. And it damned well isn't happiness, as that word is generally used. I think it's a way of finding your soul.
Robertson Davies
#26. Marriage isn't a disease; it isn't catching. You don't have to pass it on to everybody you know. Unlike a woman I once heard admit "I've never been married but I tell people I'm divorced so they are not scared of me,
Bella DePaulo
#27. Marriage isn't for the weak or lazy. It's work, and it should be. What would be the point otherwise?
J.D. Robb
#28. Marriage isn't supposed to make you happy -
it's supposed to make you married.
Frank Pittman
#29. Marriage isn't some magical thing. Putting the rings on and saying 'I do' doesn't make the marriage. It doesn't mean you'll love each other any better. All that comes from what you've already got. Marriage only means as much as you make of it.
Jasinda Wilder
#30. I believe that marriage isn't between a man and woman; but between love and love.
Frank Ocean
#31. Marriage isn't between man & women. It's between God & you and divorce is not an option
Kloby
#32. Same sex marriage isn't gay privilege, it's equal rights. Privilege would be something like gay people not paying taxes. Like churches don't.
Ricky Gervais
#33. If marriage isn't a first priority in your life, you're not married.
Joseph Campbell
#34. Marriage isn't a motion-picture close-up with slow fade-out on the embrace. It's a partnership, and what's the good of a partnership if your heart's not in it? It's like collaborating with a man you dislike....
P.G. Wodehouse
#35. Marriage isn't for everyone, however if you find the right co-pilot it's a great way to travel through life
Kloby
#36. Marriage isn't for you. It's not about you. Marriage is about the person you marry.
Seth Adam Smith
#37. What makes for a good marriage isn't necessarily what makes for a good romantic relationship. Marriage isn't a passion-fest; it's a partnership formed to run a very small, mundane and often boring non-profit business. And I mean this in a good way.
Lori Gottlieb
#38. Marriage isn't a business, co-owned and managed. It's a love story. The most important things we can give our marriage are time and romance, kissing and laughing. Laundry can wait, but a love story needs to be written a little bit every day. WHEN
Shauna Niequist
#39. A happy marriage isn't the easiest thing in the world to achieve, but it's much easier to come by than a happy but illicit affair.
Shirley Boone
#40. Marriage isn't about Winning - It's about Lasting
Mark Gorman
#41. I know that now probably isn't the time. But I have been here for the worse, and I want to be here for the rest.
Keira Kroft
#42. 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
#43. Some of the freckles I once loved are now closer to liver spots. But it's still the eyes we look at, isn't it? That's where we found the other person, and find them still.
Julian Barnes
#44. 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
#45. God will bring the right person into your life at the right time. Always believe that! If they are not there, God isn't finished yet!
Shannon L. Alder
#46. But they love each other. Isn't that what love means? That you're supposed to be there for the other person to turn to, no matter what?
Cassandra Clare
#47. It's a very female thing, isn't it, to take one boys' night and snowball it into a marital infidelity that will destroy our marriage?
Gillian Flynn
#48. Content and technology are strange bed fellows. We are joined together. Sometimes we misunderstand each other. But isn't that after all the definition of marriage?
Howard Stringer
#49. So she is pretty and he is rich. No doubt society will judge it an excellent match. I know my father does thus a woman he found intolerable for his son is in turn found ideal for his associate. strange isn't it how it's the direction we are viewed from that makes us attractive or abhorrent
Galen Beckett
#50. 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
#51. A marriage takes work. You have to constantly put energy into it to keep it from falling apart. Going nowhere takes energy. Stability isn't what you get when you do nothing. It's what you can hope to achieve when you work hard.
Joshua Edward Smith
#52. In marriage, we're called to reflect God's love for us through our self-giving love for our spouse. God's love for us isn't dependent on our day-to-day feelings toward him, on how hard we work to please him, or even on how faithful we are to him. It's grounded in his nature and his covenant.
Matthew Vines
#53. A love that lasts for twenty years may be better than love, but it isn't love.
Mignon McLaughlin
#54. 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
#55. Sometimes divorce isn't an earth-shattering loss. Sometimes it's just two people waking up out of a fog.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
#56. We're going to be okay. Lainey isn't the glue that keeps us together. We are. We're the glue. Okay?
Susan Meissner
#57. No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn't in submission to God!
T.D. Jakes
#58. For some people, marriage may be very groovy. For me, it really isn't. I don't think it really is for most people anyway. Most people are not very happy.
Marianne Faithfull
#59. To be honest, marriage doesn't scare me and that, it's just once you've been together for so long, if you haven't got any kids it's just a big expensive day out for everyone else to enjoy, isn't it?
Karl Pilkington
#60. But perhaps the next step isn't to, once again, expand the otherwise narrow definition of marriage but to altogether abolish the false distinction between married families and other equally valid but unrecognized partnerships.
Sally Kohn
#61. I've decided that there isn't much difference in the way we treat our siblings and the way we treat our special someones. But at the end of it all we know our siblings have to forgive us ... or they'll never be able to borrow our car.
Emma Daley
#62. Who's married and who isn't married. I have my standards but I shouldn't have to impose my standards on others. Other people have their standards and they have no right to impose their marriage standards on me.
Ron Paul
#64. But then isn't that what marriage is, two people fighting for land rights to the same six inches?
Noah Hawley
#65. I felt like the Empress Theodora. Can I get more orifices? I thought. Is that what she meant in the Historia Arcana - not that three isn't enough, but that the three on offer aren't enough to sustain a marriage?
Nell Zink
#66. According to the Bible, sex isn't something sinful, but rather a wonderful gift from God to be thoroughly enjoyed within the boundaries of marriage.
Ray Comfort
#67. It isn't a case of marriage having been tried and found wanting. In this 20th century world, true marriage is deeply wanted, but largely untried.
Richard Lessor
#68. If you save yourself for marriage, and then you don't get married, then what you saved isn't worth anything. It's like Confederate money. You're bankrupt, you have nowhere to spend it.
Caroline to Peggy
Elizabeth McCracken
#69. It isn't that I dislike artists, but I can't stand anyone who puts on those ponderous airs of a man of character.
Osamu Dazai
#70. Love is just a peculiar, fleeting affair that isn't very important, but in marriage there is always hostility between two different tribes of human beings. There are two opposing forces, who fight each other until one of them wins, and you and I, my poor old Alain, have been knocked out too easily.
Irene Nemirovsky
#71. Orgasm isn't a goal. It's the attitude that matters. Abir has
never even asked how I feel after sex. He has many other concerns.
He provides for me and I provide for him, that's a familiarity which
no one can deny. We love each other. Love is a broader thing.
Anuradha Bhattacharyya
#72. The wedding isn't what makes a marriage." She told them. "Love is what makes a marriage. The wedding is just an expensive party.
Darrell Maloney
#73. It isn't silence you can cut with a knife any more, it's interchange of ideas. Intelligent discussion of practically everything is what is breaking up modern marriage.
E.B. White
#74. If sex isn't an important part of your marriage, you can't beef if your wife or husband does this unimportant thing with somebody else every once in a while, if you have no interest in it.
Dan Savage
#75. The old ideals are dead as nails
nothing there. It seems to me there remains only this perfect union with a woman
sort of ultimate marriage
and there isn't anything else.
D.H. Lawrence
#76. Isn't it odd that in most societies in the world today, women generally cannot propose marriage? Marriage is such a major step in your life, and yet you cannot take charge of it; it depends on a man asking you.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#77. Life isn't about love and heaven forbid marriage be. It's about getting along.
Lisa Mondello
#78. Divorce isn't such a tragedy. A tragedy's staying in an unhappy marriage, teaching your children the wrong things about love. Nobody ever died of divorce.
Jennifer Weiner
#79. If you remain conventional and don't change, you'll get along. You'll get along in the limited forms of insanity that exist out there. You'll never be able to keep a marriage together, you'll never be able to keep anything together, because the whole goddamn thing isn't together.
Jacque Fresco
#80. 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
#81. I'm very ambivalent in my feelings about marriage. I think it promises a lot to people - sort of like saying, once you get married you are on the highway to heaven, and quite often it isn't that. I think marriage has always been based on a combination of religious and legal reasons.
Mick Jagger
#82. 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
#83. You need not be proud of me ... I'm only being active till you can be again
it isn't such a great desire on my part to serve theworld and I'll fall back into habits of sloth quite easily!
Eleanor Roosevelt
#84. Sex isn't all that important, but it is when you love someone very much.
Ava Gardner
#85. In my heart, I know that marriage equality for every human being isn't a question of if, but only a matter of when. I ask those who feel that giving freedom to others somehow binds you, to please take a good look at what you are standing behind
Russell Simmons
#86. A heart isn't something you get. It's something that's born.
Yukiru Sugisaki
#87. The truth is, the greatest tool to lift children and families from poverty is one that decreases the probability of child poverty by 82%. But it isn't a government spending program. It's called marriage.
Marco Rubio
#88. It isn't a bit of use my pretending I'm not crying, because I am ... Pause to mop up. Better now.
Perhaps it would really be rather dull to be married and settled for life. Liar! It would be heaven.
Dodie Smith
#89. Isn't that the ultimate homeland security, standing up and defending marriage?
Rick Santorum
#90. 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
#91. Our culture puts feelings first, but true love isn't based on feelings. That is why there are so many divorces today. When the early romantic feelings in a marriage do not remain constant ... many people believe divorce is the answer.
Billy Graham
#92. Anna, falling in love with you was like coming home to a place I didn't realize I'd been missing all my life. You're the only person I've ever known who accepts me for who I am, right in this moment, faults and all, and isn't waiting for me to become someone else.
Jennifer Chiaverini
#93. Marriage is like the Middle East, isn't it? There's no solution.
Willy Russell
#94. 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
#95. Straight couples don't have to be monogamous to be married or married to be monogamous. Monogamy no more defines marriage than the presence of children does. Monogamy isn't compulsory and its absence doesn't invalidate a marriage.
Dan Savage
#96. It's volatile, the marriage. Which one isn't? Nothing better than a good, full-on row. Get it all out. Say rude and nasty things. And then be sorry. Genuinely sorry, afterwards.
John Lydon
#97. Maybe marriage, like life, isn't only about the big moments, whether they be good or bad. Maybe it's all the small things - like being guided slowly forward, surely, day after day - that stretches out to strengthen even the most tenuous bond.
Sarah Dessen
#98. Friendship is two-sided. It isn't a friend just because someone's doing something nice for you. That's a nice person. There's friendship when you do for each other. It's like marriage - it's two-sided.
John Wooden
#99. I like all weddings, but isn't it particularly lovely when two grown-ups decide to get married?
Gabrielle Zevin
#100. He isn't the best, neither am I. But we are the best version of ourselves with each other. And that's pretty close to Perfection.
Jasleen Kaur Gumber
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