Top 100 Marriage The Quotes
#1. A love without satiety an ecstasy without an end, a surrender to the beloved - God - without ever falling back on egotistic loneliness. Marriage and celibacy are not contraries
Fulton J. Sheen
#2. Not for the first time Spooner was reminded that marriage was not the straighforward assembly the instruction book led you to believe.
Pete Dexter
#3. Marriage was always the happening end, not the beginning.
Gloria Steinem
#5. This very easy divorce had become very difficult. I thought I was in the express lane and it was all fast tracks from there. Think again.
Brenda Perlin
#6. The very fact that we make such a to-do over golden weddings indicates our amazement at human endurance. The celebration is more in the nature of a reward for stamina.
Ilka Chase
#7. It's not unlike a marriage, the partnership. All the effort and good intentions in the world can't make things right if you choose poorly in the first place.
Cecilia Grant
#8. No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst, that it inevitably changes.
Lisa Kleypas
#9. I'm confident as a supporter of same sex marriage, I'm confident that there'll be a yes vote in that plebiscite, and that the parliament will then move very swiftly to implement the will of the people.
George Brandis
#10. 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
#11. Eugenics, as discussed, evidently means the control of some men
over the marriage and unmarriage of others; and probably means the
control of the few over the marriage and unmarriage of the many
G.K. Chesterton
#12. God is building a mighty army to vanquish the forces of darkness. These soldiers of the light are initially conceived and nurtured in the wombs of women. As such, an obvious strategy for the devil would be to sabotage the womb to cut down the size of this godly army.
Theresa Pecku-Laryea
#13. I support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us.
Kinky Friedman
#14. The ideal that marriage aims at is that of spiritual union through the physical. The human love that it incarnates is intended to serve as a stepping stone to diving or universal love.
Mahatma Gandhi
#15. When they married and gave in marriage
They danced at the County Ball
And some of them kept a carriage
And the flood destroyed them all.
Hilaire Belloc
#16. In all of Western civilization, there have been societies that celebrating the homosexuality, the ancient Greeks. But they, in fact, protected the institution of marriage as a union between one man and one woman. They got the joke. And the American people get the joke.
Ken Blackwell
#17. Most couples get married because it's time, not because they're in love. They might have money issues, parental pressure, or they're simply tired of being alone - so they pick Mr. Good Enough and tie the knot.
H.M. Ward
#19. I'm Adron's baby sister. Dad just told me about the marriage, and I had to come meet you and make sure Dad hadn't snapped a wheel and started hallucinating or something. (Zarina)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#20. There's not a lot of room anymore for what I call 'made-up' drama. The drama comes from real places now - marriage takes work and focus, the kid stuff takes patience and commitment. And if you don't grow as people and as a couple, within all of that, then you've got some real drama.
Jeremy Sisto
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. (Can human beings change? The humor, and the sadness, of remarriage comedies can be said to result from the fact that we have no good answer to that question.)
Stanley Cavell
#24. To me, the difference between a good marriage and a great marriage is conviction.
Diane Greene
#25. Singles, too, must see the penultimate status of marriage. If single Christians don't develop a deeply fulfilling love relationship with Jesus, they will put too much pressure on their DREAM of marriage, and that will create pathology in their lives as well.
Timothy Keller
#26. 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
#27. Gay and lesbian couples should have the right to experience the joys of marriage and family.
Bryan Cranston
#28. Just as extreme love, in a marriage, for example, can turn to hate. They're the same coin, just different sides.
William Kuhn
#29. And so I found myself in a kind of love lock: pining for the wrong person, grieving beside a woman whose body I can't touch, being given a second chance I can't find the clarity to take.
Courtney Maum
#30. The loneliness of command had made Eisenhower emotionally self-sufficient.
Jean Edward Smith
#31. That had been the trouble with him and Betsy: what with his brooding about the past and worrying about the future, there had never been any present at all.
Sloan Wilson
#32. Marriage can, should, and must evolve. Don't be alarmed, and don't resent it. Be patient and kind, unflaggingly. In the long run, it's the unasked-for hot-water bottles on winter nights that matter more than the extravagant gestures.
David Mitchell
#33. Problem does not lie in being a husband; the problem is with acting as a husband (being bossy).
Dada Bhagwan
#34. 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
#35. One of the things that kept our marriage intact was community. Friends who spurred us on to finish strong together. And it's friends who esteem marriage that will do this; not people who belittle it or question the value of it.
Ashleigh Slater
#36. Over time, my belief in many things has wavered: marriage, the afterlife, Woody Allen.
Lena Dunham
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. The next thing I want to say is that God's way is always the best way. It's the only way, really. And God's word clearly says he created sex for one man and one woman to share only inside the commitment of marriage
Robin Jones Gunn
#40. Vin Scully has been my broadcasting idol for a long time. He is so humble - he has the exact same work ethic that he had 65 years ago. His family is what he cares about the most, and at the heart of his whole being is his marriage and kids.
Hannah Storm
#41. She was just kind and genuine. Pure, even. I hated that her good heartedness and naivety were going to cost her so dearly because I was going to bust up her marriage and take her husband if it were the last thing I did.
Rhonda McKnight
#42. Of course same sex marriage is constitutional! The right to be yourself, to pursue life, liberty, and property, is protected several ways over several amendments. John Boehner should know this.
Henry Rollins
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. What time do you need to be at work tomorrow, Hon?' Lexi asks.
Well, Ruby's back, so nine o'clock.'
What does Ruby being back have to do with anything?'
She's the human stopwatch, remember? Marriage doesn't change everything.
Erynn Mangum
#46. Marriage is a journey of disasters, only to fall in love all over again, with the person that rescues you each time.
Shannon L. Alder
#47. When Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed the same-sex marriage bill, my blood was boiling. I had been silent, but that night, Brad and I watched the news and saw all these young people pouring out on Santa Monica Boulevard venting their rage, and I said, 'I have to speak out.'
George Takei
#48. Mom also hinted a couple of times that it was good I was going to college, since with one failed marriage behind me, I 'd have trouble landing a good husband and would need something to fall back on. "A package that's been opened once doesn't have the same appeal".
Jeannette Walls
#49. Love, for too many men in our time, consists of sleeping with a seductive woman, one who is properly endowed with the right distribution of curves and conveniences and one upon whom a permanent lien has been acquired through the institution of marriage.
Ashley Montagu
#50. I've never understood what the upside of marriage would be for me personally.
Arsenio Hall
#51. I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily.
J. Paul Getty
#52. To keep one's marriage brimming,
With love in the wedding cup,
Whenever you're wrong admit it;
Whenever you're right, shut up. - Ogden Nash
Meg Cabot
#53. With such a worshipping wife, it was hardly possible that any natural defects in it should not be increased. The extreme sweetness of her temper must hurt his.
Jane Austen
#54. How can two people love each other, create children together, cohabitiate, build a life together, and then end up hating each other in the end.
Zane
#55. Sometimes the comfort of being in a relationship lulls you into mundane complacency; you become irrelevant in each other's lives. We call this phenomenon
'growing apart'.
Steve Maraboli
#56. The Left despises Texas, with its stellar record of job growth; Texas, with its strong support for traditional marriage and the sanctity of life; Texas, the root of the conservative tree. Should the Left succeed in its attempt to turn Texas purple, America could turn permanently blue.
Ben Shapiro
#57. A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who can do it, where there is no doubt of her regard, must, I think, be the happiest of mortals.
Jane Austen
#58. It is in the perfect union of two hearts that complete and total marriage consists.
Bernard Of Clairvaux
#59. In a society which really supported marriage the wife would be encouraged to go to the office and make love to her husband on the company's time and with its blessing.
Brendan Behan
#60. In my long life I have found peace, joy, and happiness beyond my fondest hopes and dreams. One of the supreme benedictions of my life has been my marriage to an elect daughter of God. I love her with all my heart and soul.
James E. Faust
#61. Faith is one of only two things in mankind's consciousness that defies discussion. The other is one's marriage.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
#62. Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
St. Jerome
#63. It dawned on him that the loneliness of marriage, the thing Alice had so feared, starts out of love itself, which can never deliver on its promises.
Josephine Humphreys
#64. When you cease to blame your spous eand own the problem as yours, you are then empowered to make changes to solve your problem.
Henry Cloud
#65. Prostitution was illegal in Kenya and was culturally a taboo. But what was a young orphaned girl with little education to do when she had to fend for three of her younger siblings? As she watched the waves hit the shores, she noticed a young handsome man staring at her from a distance.
Nya Wampaze
#66. If you look at attitudes today and where they are headed, it's clear to me that supporting equal rights, including the rights to civil marriage, is a net positive for winning elections, as well as the right thing to do.
Ken Mehlman
#67. Balance every thought with its opposition. Because the marriage of them is the destruction of illusion.
Aleister Crowley
#68. Any mature, spiritually sensitive view of marriage must be built on the foundation of mature love rather than romanticism. But this immediately casts us into a countercultural pursuit.
Gary L. Thomas
#69. Unfortunately, we don't have the option of marriage in our country. We could go to Britain or Spain or Argentina and do something symbolic, but that's not what I want. I want to have the rights of anybody else in my home country. I don't want to be a second-class citizen
Dick Cheney
#70. Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral bak'd meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.
William Shakespeare
#71. Gretta sits herself down at the table. Robert has arranged everything she needs: a plate, a knife, a bowl with a spoon, a pat of butter, a jar of jam. It is in such small acts of kindness that people know they are loved.
Maggie O'Farrell
#72. Yvette had never talked about her marriage - she was a smart girl, and she knew you had no right to complain about someone you got all the way to the altar with. You made that choice, even if you were a child when you did it, and the marriage vow was sacred.
Maile Meloy
#73. The heart of marriage is memories; and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns, then your marriage is a gift from the gods.
Bill Cosby
#74. Marriage is the real vocation crisis in the United States ... We have a vocation crisis to life-long, life-giving, loving, faithful marriage. If we take care of that one, we'll have all the priests and nuns we'll need for the Church.
Timothy M. Dolan
#75. To tell the truth, it is regarding the physical side of marriage that I have always been apprehensive...There so seldom seems to be enough of it," said Miss Teatime.
Colin Watson
#76. No human law can abolish the natural and original right of marriage, nor in any way limit the chief and principal purpose of marriage ordained by God's authority from the beginning: Increase and multiply.
Pope Leo XIII
#77. Marriage is all about knowing the ins and outs and the intimate details, and your wife is supposed to be the person you know best. But my brother and I think alike, know everything about one another, and when we get together, we block everything else out. Nothing exists in our world except for us.
Jon Heder
#78. But some characters in books are really real
Jane Austen's are; and I know those five Bennets at the opening of Pride and Prejudice, simply waiting to raven the young men at Netherfield Park, are not giving one thought to the real facts of marriage.
Dodie Smith
#79. Newspaper columnist Dave Barry once wrote that the motto of the wedding industry is, 'Money can't buy you happiness, so you might as well give your money to us.
Denise Fields
#80. When I got married in my twenties, I had a happy marriage and happy kids but at some point in time I let it go off the rails; I let it go off the rails.
Stuart Rose
#81. I love the institution of marriage, and I love my marriage.
Kyle Chandler
#82. 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
#83. The papers say we're married, but it's the heart that writes the love story.
Anthony Liccione
#84. Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
Boris Pasternak
#85. 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
#86. 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
#87. Or, for one of our mothers, the secret to a good marriage, she said, was sex.
TaraShea Nesbit
#88. For women in this era, it seemed that marriage was the easiest way of acquiring the basic freedoms of adulthood. Things
Aziz Ansari
#89. When people get married young, you don't really understand the true definition of marriage.
Kevin Hart
#90. I believe wholeheartedly in marriage. I don't exclusively mean a marriage with a legal contract, but any relationship that constitutes a marriage because of the quality of their relationship.
Helen Reddy
#91. She was uncertain about taking his hand in marriage after he'd revealed to her that his deceased father was a big-time hustler, and his twin brother had taken over the family empire. She was scared.
Aleta L. Williams
#92. Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
#93. I was not a good father in my first marriage. Although there are ways of deserting the family without leaving physically, I was deserted in my head. I was always out, always in the saloons, always drinking, always messing about.
Malachy McCourt
#94. A cynic should never marry an idealist. For the cynic, marriage represents the welcome end of romantic life, with all its agony and ecstasy. But for the idealist, it is only the beginning.
Julie Burchill
#95. With passion you want to possess. The conversion of passion into compassion is the whole problem of marriage.
Joseph Campbell
#96. By the moonlight he watched his wife for the last time. His hand sought the adjacent flesh and sorrow paralleled desire in the immense complexity of love.
Carson McCullers
#97. 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
#98. Repentance is the first step on the path back to your relationship with God.
Jim George
#99. The biggest problem in my life is trying to be the kind of man that I want to be, the father that I want to be, and how to process the failure of my marriage.
Ethan Hawke
#100. The common view of marriage as a primitive institution implies in the man more than arbitrary superiority, such as he exercised over the child, which still remained free. The woman's slavery was assumed to be for life.
Henry Adams
