Top 100 Marriage Like Quotes
#1. Arguments could fill a marriage like water, running through everything, always, with no taste or color but lots of noise.
Barbara Kingsolver
#2. Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.
Robert Graves
#3. Take care of him. And make him feel important. And if you can do that, you'll have a happy and wonderful marriage. Like two out of every ten couples.
Neil Simon
#4. Yes, my mom does keep making references to marriage, like all mothers do, but it's only in a lighter mood ... she just jokes.
Saina Nehwal
#5. You should treat your marriage like a business that you wouldn't want to let fail. I'm a big advocate of therapy and third-party intervention.
Lisa Ling
#6. She needs to think about her marriage like she does Mexican food." "Mexican food?" Ali asked. "We love Mexican food," Nic explained. "And Nic deserves the whole enchilada.
Emily March
#7. Celibacy is like poetry keeping the idea ever in mind like a dream; but marriage uses chisel and brush, concentrating more on marble and canvas. Celibacy jumps to a conclusion like an intuition; marriage, like reason, labors through ebb and flow, step by step.
Fulton J. Sheen
#8. For me and my wife ... the easiest part of my life is my marriage. Like if everything was as smooth and easy and fun as my relationship with my wife then I would have a much easier time getting through the day. We really get along and we like the same stuff.
Seth Rogen
#9. A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, in the expectation that the other will do the same.
Nicholas Sparks
#10. There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.
Charles Dickens
#11. But, I knew I didn't believe in
divorce. You couldn't make vows and just break them. If I married a woman, I was going to stay married. I wouldn't treat marriage like a lease. Ever.
Tarryn Fisher
#12. 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
#13. Sex was for men. Marriage, like lifeboats, was for women and children.
Carrie Fisher
#14. Marriage, like everything else in the world, is holy or unholy depending on the purpose the mind ascribes to it.
Marianne Williamson
#15. Thus marriage, like the Trinity, is a hierarchical partnership. While all parties are equal in value, essence, and significance, there is a distinction in function (hierarchy) in order to fulfill God's kingdom agenda in history.
Tony Evans
#16. Marriage, like a submarine, is only safe if you get all the way inside.
Frank Pittman
#17. 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
#18. Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like.
Jasper Fforde
#19. Civil marriage, like all civil rights provided by the government, must be provided equally to all Americans.
Benjamin Todd Jealous
#20. She introduced herself to me as Ray's wife. I was only mildly surprised to realize that Ray had this pleasant-looking matron for a partner, a little glassy-eyed, tagged by forty years of marriage like a dead deer on a car roof.
Keith Hollihan
#22. The perfect marriage, like the perfect body, is mythical. I never met a woman who's said she has the perfect marriage or the perfect body...There's always something lacking. -- Virgin Bride
Jhoomur Bose
#23. She keeps poking at my marriage like a toothpick. Almost done!
Rainbow Rowell
#24. Marriage like government is a series of compromises. One must give and take, repair and restrain, endure and be patient.
Samuel Smiles
#25. I was burned out from exhaustion, buried in the hail, poisoned in the bushes,
blown out on the trail; hunted like a crocodile, ravaged in the corn,
"Come in," she said, "I'll give ya shelter from the storm."
Bob Dylan
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. It's the perfect solution. We argue all the time. We can't stand each other. It's like we're already married.
Lisa Kleypas
#29. 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
#30. Sometimes I do wake up in the mornings and feel like I've just had the most incredible dream. I've just dreamt my life
Richard Branson
#31. he's got a terrible marriage and doesn't want to go home, and don't ask how I know that, everyone knows when you've got a terrible marriage, it's like having bad breath, you get close enough to a person and it's obvious.
Emily St. John Mandel
#32. 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
#33. Marriage is like war - an experience that no adventurous man would evade, and no sensible man repeat.
Ursula Parrott
#34. Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.
Warren Beatty
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. No significant American group hates like the left does. If you differ with them - from global warming, to race relations, to same-sex marriage, to the extent of rape on college campuses - they will humiliate, defame, libel and try to economically crush you.
Dennis Prager
#38. No one knows what a marriage is like except the two people in it - and sometimes one of them doesn't know.
Ann Landers
#39. Like most complicated things where it's easy to get derailed, their marriage was successful because they mastered the basics. From that mastery they could weather anything.
Fawn Weaver
#40. 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
#42. I agree that [marriage] should be treated like a business deal. But every business deal has to have its own terms and its own kind of currency.
Ayn Rand
#43. 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
#44. Like me, the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians.
Mitt Romney
#45. If someone doesn't like what you bring to the table in a relationship, let them eat alone.
Karen Salmansohn
#46. A dog is much like a married man, obeying his master's voice for the sake of his master's touch.
Robert Breault
#47. 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
#48. A strong marriage requires two people who choose to love each other even on those days when they struggle to like each other.
Dave Willis
#49. My old geometry teacher called me and he was like yo man you need to start wearing a shirt. You're ruining my marriage.
Drew Chadwick
#50. Marriage,love and commitment does not give a man permission to act like Julius Caesar by pushing his partner into sexual promiscuity like a concubine for his own sexual pleasures.
Sheree' Griffin
#51. You kissed me like that when I was a blushing bride ... ? I wonder what I was blushing about?
Gracie Allen
#52. Like the muscles knew from the beginning that it would end with this, this inevitable falling apart ... It's sad, but a relief as well to know that two things so closely bound together can separate with so little violence, leaving smooth surfaces instead of bloody shreds.
Julie Powell
#53. Men would like monogamy better if it sounded less like monotony.
Rita Rudner
#55. 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
#56. In part, that's because when we delay marriage, it's not just women who become independent. It's also men, who, like women, learn to clothe and feed themselves, to clean their homes iron their shirts and pack their own suitcases.
Rebecca Traister
#57. 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
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. Like most girls, her imagination carried her just as far as the altar and no further.
Margaret Mitchell
#62. This people know where their husbands are. I would like to vomit. I would like to vomit my soul out.
Suzanne Finnamore
#63. 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
#64. Marriages are like pianos. They go in and out of tune.
Sarah Waters
#65. I told you once that [our marriage] was like an adolescent's dream of what marriage should be like. That hasn't changed.
Ronald Reagan
#67. He remembers which sister
I like least and asks
how she is doing.
(lines 9-11 of the poem 'Divorce')
Carrie Etter
#68. 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
#69. The nation's young men have
been proved by surveys to be completely unmarriageable, and as a result there's a whole
generation of single girls like me with their own incomes and homes who have lots of fun and
don't need to wash anyone else's socks.
Helen Fielding
#70. Percy must have perceived, early in her marriage, that her husband's lechery was compulsive and incurable, but she was determined, like any other lover, to authenticate her suspicion.
John Cheever
#71. 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
#72. Sometimes I bust out and do things so permanent. Like tattoos and marriage.
Drew Barrymore
#73. Hecuba had the mistaken notion, just like my poor mama, that all a girl had to do was to get married and all her problems were solved overnight.
Costas Taktsis
#74. A husband is a man who two minutes after his head touches the pillow is snoring like an overloaded omnibus.
Ogden Nash
#75. 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
#76. It started with feelings of jealousy and like a mental virus it spread.
Dermot Davis
#77. I'm used to wild creatures who don't like to be approached from behind."
He shot her a baleful glance. "How fortunate that your experience with animals has turned out to be such good preparation for marriage to me.
Lisa Kleypas
#78. It's weird, marriage. It's like this license that gives a person the legal right to control their spouse / their 'other half.
Jess C. Scott
#79. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative. Imaginative people fidget with ideas, including the idea of a relationship. If they're wordsmiths like us, they fidget a lot in words.
Diane Ackerman
#80. Welfare has destroyed the African-American family by telling young black women that husbands and fathers are unnecessary and obsolete. ... We have incentivized fornication rather than marriage, and it's no wonder we are now awash in the disastrous social consequences of people who rut like rabbits.
Bryan Fischer
#81. 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
#82. Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there.
J. Paul Getty
#83. 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
#84. THERE ARE THINGS I LOVE ABOUT marriage. I love the familiarity of it," Nedra said. "It's like a tattoo. You wanted it at the time, you have it, it's implanted in your skin, you can't get rid of it. You're hardly even aware of it any more. I suppose I'm very conventional," she decided.
James Salter
#85. The real heroes of the Wish Factory are the young men and women who wait like Vladimir and Estragon wait for Godot and good Christian girls wait for marriage.
John Green
#86. 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
#87. 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
#88. It was a marriage of love. He was sufficiently spoiled to be charming; she was ingenuous enough to be irresistible. Like two floating logs they met in a head-on rush, caught, and sped along together.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#89. There is nothing like marriage, for two who love one another.
Ibn Majah
#90. With a lump forming in his throat, he thought
about all the hopes and dreams that he had for his son. More than
anything, he prayed his boy would not grow up to be a screw up
like his dad when it came to love and marriage.
Michelle Sutton
#91. I want a relationship where we talk like best friends, play like kids, argue like husband and wife, and protect each other like siblings.
Anonymous
#92. 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
#93. Their marriage was cold and tedious. Formal and unloving. Stale even. She never had any regrets like this with Jack. With Jack, a rainy day would be cheerful.
LeeAnn Whitaker
#94. Fools are as like husbands as pilchards are to herrings, the husband's the bigger.
William Shakespeare
#95. 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
#96. I did not have a personal relationship with Jesus until I met my nanny, who helped me through a failing marriage and raising my two boys in a New York City apartment. She showed me by example what it was like to be able to talk to Jesus and bring all my cares and worries to Him. That was in 1990.
Kim Alexis
#97. She's always suggesting books like a literary marriage broker, wedding readers to the titles just right for them.
Joseph Bruchac
#98. She had gambled with marriage, just like most people, but she had gambled unluckily and had lost.
Buchi Emecheta
#99. Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.
E.W. Howe
#100. Because after my marriage fell apart I felt like an empty parking space, and James just pulled into it.
Terry McMillan
