Top 100 Marriage The Quotes
#1. 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
#2. Over time, my belief in many things has wavered: marriage, the afterlife, Woody Allen.
Lena Dunham
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. That is one of the beauties of marriage. The power of two is greater than the strength of one. A
Fawn Weaver
#7. Army, Marriage, the Church, and Baking: the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse.
Fermin Romero de Torres - The Shadow of the Wind.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#8. The most sexually active women need marriage the most to validate themselves. Why not do an orgy to see who proposes?
Kent Lamarc
#9. Marriage, [ ... ], the most advanced form of warfare in the modern world.
Malcolm Bradbury
#10. When love dries in a marriage, the children become mortar for the bricks. When the children leave, the bricks just sit atop each other. When the children die, the bricks tumble.
Mitch Albom
#11. Since the dawn of time, traditional marriage - the union between one man and one woman - has been the building block of civilization, and at no point in our nation's history has that foundation been under more severe attack than now.
Jim DeMint
#12. Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become.
Coretta Scott King
#13. Changing the legal standard creates a slippery slope ... plural marriage. The court opened up a pandora's box by doing that.
Rick Santorum
#14. She ran out of her marriage the way a woman can run out of a pair of sandals when she decides to let go and really dash.
Stephen King
#15. In marriage the great thing was love, and that with love one would always be happy, for happiness rests only on oneself.
Leo Tolstoy
#16. They that Marry for Money cannot have the true Satisfaction of Marriage; the requisite Means being wanting.
William Penn
#17. We need uniform protection of traditional marriage. You can't have different definitions on something as fundamental as marriage. The Marriage Protection Amendment is the only solution to this problem.
Ernest Istook
#18. The relationship, the marriage, the commitment, the partnership ... This is the holy ground.
James Taylor
#19. Everyone saw me on TV or read articles, and it was all about my great marriage, the white picket fence, all this success and my perfect life. But behind the scenes, it was a struggle.
Lindsey Vonn
#20. In marriage, the occasional catastrophic crisis is easier to manage than the daily routine.
Edward Abbey
#21. On three great bonds of love do all cultures depend: the love between man and woman in marriage; the love between a mother and her child; and the camaraderie among men, a bond that used to be strong enough to move mountains. The first two have suffered greatly; the third has almost ceased to exist.
Anthony M. Esolen
#22. Often it's a lack of time, not taste, that leads someone to hire a decorator. A good decorator/client relationship should be like a marriage. The time one puts in needs to be extensive. One needs to listen to them and understand what they like and how they live.
Nicholas Haslam
#23. Why is marriage the pinnacle for everyone? People get married for the wrong reasons. We need to start looking at different packages, whether it's living together, or being with six partners, or dedicating your life to taking care of flowers.
Sandra Bullock
#24. Tillie studied her mother's face. The face which had seen thirty-seven years of life. Twenty-one years of marriage. The birth of ten babies. The death of one.
Deeanne Gist
#25. There are three rings involved with marriage. The engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering.
Woody Allen
#26. By marriage the husband and wife are one person in law, that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during marriage.
William Blackstone
#27. In the enriching of marriage, the big things are the little things. There must be constant appreciation for each other and thoughtful demonstration of gratitude. A couple must encourage and help each other grow. Marriage is a joint quest for the good, the beautiful, and the divine
James E. Faust
#28. Brace yourself! If we take in what the Holy Father is saying in his Theology of the Body, we will never view ourselves, view others, view the Church, the Sacraments, grace, God, heaven, marriage, the celibate vocation ... we will never view the world the same way again.
Christopher West
#29. We must refuse to submit to those institutions which are by definition sexist - marriage, the nuclear family, religions built on the myth of feminine evil.
Andrea Dworkin
#30. While many governments and well-meaning individuals have redefined marriage, the Lord has not.
Neil L. Andersen
#31. You know I am not a champion of marriage. The real drawback to marriage is that it makes one unselfish. And unselfish people are colourless.
Oscar Wilde
#32. In every marriage the wife has to keep her mouth shut about at least one small thing her husband does that disgusts her.
John O'Hara
#33. Mercifully, I was at that age when reading was still a passion and thus, save for a happy marriage, the best state possible in which to keep absolute loneliness at bay. I could not have made it through those evenings otherwise.
William Styron
#35. I'm 0 for 3 with marriage - the scoreboard doesn't lie, never has. So what we all have is a marriage of the heart. To sully or contaminate or radically disrespect this union with a shameful contract is something that I will leave to the amateurs and the Bible grippers.
Charlie Sheen
#36. Martin and Katharina had six children during the first eight years of their marriage. The
Charles River Editors
#37. Agape love, on the other hand, is unselfish, unconditional, and unstoppable. It is based upon choice and commitment, not feelings. So unless this kind of love forms the foundation of your marriage, the wear and tear of time could destroy it.
Alex Kendrick
#38. It's like marriage. The race there is between total knowledge of each other and death. If death comes first, it's considered a successful marriage.
Peter S. Beagle
#39. 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
#40. If love were a requirement for marriage, the human race would have no need for the institution.
J.R. Ward
#41. For marriage the best man is the man within oneself. Most women need to develop their own 'masculine' qualities of independence, pride, courage and open sexuality.
Glenda Jackson
#42. When you fall in love, two people are mad for each other, When these two people get married, others say that they are made for each other, After marriage, the same two people are mad at each other.
Santosh Avvannavar
#43. There are two secrets to a successful marriage. The first is having a husband who makes you laugh. The second is never telling your husband what you're laughing at.
John Hartnett
#44. We were in love, high on the novelty of marriage. The words husband and wife felt as if they had a shine to them. They were simply more fun to say than all the other words we knew.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
#45. Marriage. The other thing, after all, came so much
Virginia Woolf
#46. The adultery book says to say affirmations of some sort each day, about yourself or your marriage. The wife doesn't like the ones that are suggested so she makes up her own.
Nerves of Steel
No favors for fuckers
Jenny Offill
#47. A band is like a marriage, and if you're in a marriage with someone, and you lose yourself in that marriage, the relationship is over, really.
Richie Sambora
#48. Marriage and deathless friendship, both should be inviolable and sacred: two great creative passions, separate, apart, but complementary: the one pivotal, the other adventurous: the one, marriage, the centre of human life; and the other, the leap ahead.
D.H. Lawrence
#49. What's happened to marriage? The wedding-industrial complex. Brides get swept up in this world of obsession - it has to be your perfect day.
Dave Barry
#50. No matter how many losing seasons you might have had in the past with your marriage, the good thing is that all teams get a fresh start once September starts.
Shon Hyneman
#51. As I grew up and began identifying myself as a feminist, there were plenty of issues that continued to make me question marriage: the father 'giving' the bride away, women taking their husband's last name, the white dress, the vows promising to 'obey' the groom. And that only covers the wedding.
Jessica Valenti
#52. Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland
#53. Perhaps it's simply the dual nature of marriage, the proximity of violence and love.
Adam Ross
#54. I think we're put out into the world to forge relationships with people. Those can be as small as buying coffee from someone or as large as a marriage. The important thing is that we try to make connections or have experiences with other humans. Otherwise what's the point of being on this earth?
Laurel Nakadate
#55. I can't promise you that this will be easy, but I can say that marriage - the way that God intended it to be - is a treasure worth fighting for.
Darlene Schacht
#56. Whether it's mending a failing company, fighting corruption, tackling disease, or rebuilding a marriage, the hardest problems defy just-add-water remedies. Indeed, slapping on a Band-Aid when surgery is needed usually just makes things worse.
Carl Honore
#57. The fair Saxon man, with open front, and honest meaning, domestic, affectionate, is not the wood out of which cannibal, or inquisitor, or assassin is made. But he is moulded for law, lawful trade, civility, marriage, the nurture of children, for colleges, churches, charities, and colonies.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#58. The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before.
Irving Stone
#59. I respect the courts, but the Supreme Court is only that
the supreme of the courts. It is not the supreme being. It cannot overrule God, when it comes to prayer, when it comes to life, and when it comes to the sanctity of marriage, the court cannot change what God has created.
Mike Huckabee
#60. If a drug failed as often and had as many side effects as western marriage, the FDA probably would not approve it.
Ron Davison
#61. Marriage. The roots are deep. The covenant is solid. The love is sweet. Life is hard. And God is good.
John Piper
#62. I am the son of two civilizations that at a certain age in history have formed a happy marriage. The first of these, seven thousand years old, is the Pharaonic civilization; the second, one thousand four hundred years old, is the Islamic civilization.
Naguib Mahfouz
#63. To be entirely happy in marriage, the same thing must be important to both.
Marie Of Romania
#64. If we are going to realise our ambition of ending the harmful practices of FGM and forced marriage, the role of young people in pushing for change is crucial. We also need to ensure that everyone, from government to civil society, is playing their part.
Theresa May
#65. There are often two conversations going on in a marriage. The one that you're having and the one you're not.
Robin Black
#66. The more time you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes.
Amy Grant
#68. Property, marriage, the law; as the bed to the river, so rule and convention to the instinct; and woe to him who tampers with the banks while the flood is flowing.
Samuel Butler
#69. Marriage. The beginning and the end are wonderful. But the middle part is hell.
Enid Bagnold
#70. The game of chess. Supposedly men made it up, and it's about war and men and the ravages and the bravery and the genius of commanding and moving pieces and ... No. It's marriage. The Queen moves anywhere she wants.
Bill Cosby
#71. Can't make marriage the be-all and end-all. Because if you do it won't work. Listen: from the looks of things we've got one of the few solid marriages around. But it took work, pussycat. Work.' Her eyes gleamed with the victory of that work, the necessity for it.
Andre Dubus
#72. All tragedies are finished bya death, All comedies are ended bya marriage; The future states of both are left to faith.
Robert Byron
#73. Passion, sexual passion, may lead to marriage, but cannot sustain marriage. The purpose of marriage is the raising of children, for which patience, not passion, is the necessary foundation.
Edward Abbey
#74. Marriage, the family unit, was the "original Department of Health, Education and Welfare."
Michael Novak
#75. I had a terrible marriage the first time around because I had no self-confidence, even though I had tremendous self-confidence.
Lynn Johnston
#76. Ah, marriage. The kind of union we have affects our children infinitely more than the schools we put them in, the activities we sign them up for, or the church we take them to. Our kids are learning relational habits by osmosis, and statistics say they'll likely imitate what they witness at home.
Jen Hatmaker
#77. Marriage: The most expensive way to get your laundry done.
Charles James
#78. In the break-up of a marriage the world inclines to take the side of the partner with most vitality, rather than the one apparently least to blame.
Anthony Powell
#79. All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.
Ann Landers
#80. If Britney Spears can party it up in Vegas with one of her boys and go get married on a whim and annul her marriage the next day, why can't a loving same sex couple tie the knot?
Brendon Ayanbadejo
#81. War had given Francis his respite, and success had brought him his final reward: the freedom he wished from his marriage. The licence, if he desired it, to go back to Russia. The knowledge, one supposed, that, severed from Philippa, he could allow the past to lie in peace, and cease troubling him.
Dorothy Dunnett
#82. In marriage, the point is not to achieve a rapid union by tearing down and toppling all boundaries. Rather, in a good marriage, each person appoints the other to be the guardian of his solitude and thus shows him the greatest faith he can bestow.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#83. To don't forget and marriage, the happiness is the from 20 up to 30% out of the 100% the other percentage is anger, and very negative sides. So far most people are dead.
Deyth Banger
#84. It is another kind of marriage - the marriage of privilege and duty. It is the aristocrat's explanation and his excuse.
Frank Herbert
#85. The Apache don't have a word for love," he said.
"Know what they both say at the marriage? The squaw-taking ceremony?"
"Tell me."
"Varlebena. It means forever. That's all they say.
Louis L'Amour
#86. MARRIAGE. The final frontier. Steven went first. He was kind of our test subject. Like those monkeys that NASA sent off into space in the fifties, knowing they'd never make it back alive.
Emma Chase
#87. When we are at peace within our marriage, the effects can be astounding! We will raise happier children, become better employees, and overall find the joy in life.
Lindsey Rietzsch
#88. The ancient liturgy, with its poignant symbols and innumerable subtleties, is a prolonged courtship of the soul, enticing and drawing it onwards, leading it along a path to the mystical marriage, the wedding feast of heaven.
Peter Kwasniewski
#89. I cannot abide the Mr. and Mrs. Noah attitude towards marriage; the animals went in two by two, forever stuck together with glue.
Vita Sackville-West
#91. The poet marries the language, and out of this marriage the poem is born.
W. H. Auden
#92. Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.
Bill Cosby
#93. The only use for military service is that it reveals the number of morons in the population," he would remark. "And that can be discovered in the first two weeks; there's no need for two years. Army, Marriage, the Church and Banking: the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Yes, go on, laugh.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#94. The core truth of our marriage, the most important thing for me to remember, was that Michael and I loved each other. Our love had gotten pushed aside and bruised and buried, but it has always existed.
Sarah Pekkanen
#95. It is only with the companionship of the Holy Ghost that we can hope to be equally yoked in a marriage free from discord. I have seen how that companionship is crucial for felicity in a marriage. The miracle of becoming one requires the help of heaven, and it takes time.
Henry B. Eyring
#96. But it would not have been a success, their marriage. The other thing, after all, came so much more naturally.
Virginia Woolf
#97. Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#98. The more money I make...the more I focus on my marriage...the more I love...the more I forgive...the more I mind my business...the less fucks I give.
J'son M. Lee
#99. I missed the idea of marriage, the one you had when you were young and emotionally unblemished.
Tarryn Fisher
#100. 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
