Top 100 Quotes About A Marriage
#1. It was a marriage of two minds, of two ... spirits tilting as gently and inescapably toward the future as paper whites tilt toward the sun.
Amor Towles
#2. Nothing is as bad as a marriage that's a hopeless failure.
D.H. Lawrence
#3. I'm the person that I always was, but in terms of how I approach my living, I'm not the same person at all. At all. I've buried a child, I've ended a marriage, and the grandson that I was raising is now grown. My family has totally shifted.
Iyanla Vanzant
#4. A band is like a marriage - you don't know why it works, but when it does, everything feels right.
Nuno Bettencourt
#5. I hadn't really even been thinking about TV. To me, it seemed like such a commitment, almost like a marriage.
Juno Temple
#6. Affinity of a marriage is not a destination, but a journey of two hearts breezing into an yearning eternity
Bernard Dsa
#7. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the definition of a marriage as between one man and one woman.
Randy Neugebauer
#8. Organizing a marriage is like forming a government after a war.
David Foenkinos
#9. It was a marriage of convenience, as my father had a blister on his big toe and couldn't travel far to find a girl.
W.C. Fields
#10. Clear communication. Respect. A lot of laughter. And a lot of orgasms. That's what makes a marriage work.
Dr. Dre
#11. Whatever's missing in your relationship, including a marriage, is what you're not bringing to it.
Nadine Velazquez
#12. I read many years ago that Billy Graham's wife, Ruth, was asked, "How is your marriage so successful?" She replied, "Because he plays golf, and I play bridge." Ruth Bell Graham understood the value of outside sources of life for a marriage to flourish.
Henry Cloud
#13. I believe it's a real tedious hostage negotiation to have a marriage be what it is.
Brad Garrett
#14. When a marriage fails, the story of the relationship changes. The best parts, the parts that made you think getting married was a good idea, fade from memory.
Tori Spelling
#15. To express a marriage of two complementary colors, their mingling and their opposition, the mysterious vibrations of kindred tones ...
Vincent Van Gogh
#16. Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit.
Seamus Heaney
#17. I know that the odds are against a marriage lasting 60 years.
Darrell Royal
#18. Just as the unique characteristics of both males and females contribute to the completeness of a marriage relationship, so those same characteristics are vital to the rearing, nurturing, and teaching of children.
David A. Bednar
#19. I couldn't fit my whole self into a marriage, no matter who my husband was. There were parts of me that John liked, and different parts for the others, but no one could deal with all of me, So I'd lop some part off, but then I'd start missing it, wanting it back.
Karen Joy Fowler
#20. A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
Henrik Ibsen
#21. I don't know what makes a marriage work. My husband and I don't have it right at all; it's very tough on him. From the outside it looks like it's all about me - I have a glorious career and he doesn't.
Emily Watson
#22. She cried. Again. That was sort of her thing during year one. If we ever write a marriage book, chapter 1 will be called, "She cried.
Joanna Gaines
#23. 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
#24. One does not marry to become a judge of the spouse's behavior. If a marriage license is mistaken for a hunting license and disapproval, punishment, and threat of withdrawal of love are employed as weapons, all one bags is one's own unhappiness.
Jo Coudert
#25. I always felt that a marriage works best at a farm ... where you're together and everybody has clear-cut roles; they have chores, 'you take care of this' and you know. But it's hard.
Ethan Hawke
#27. So also in a marriage or in helping a teenager through a difficult identity crisis - there is no quick fix, where you can just move in and make everything right with a positive mental attitude and a bunch of success formulas.
Stephen Covey
#28. Being a part of a political party is something like being a partner in a marriage - work at it and stay loyal to it, and when you can't stomach it any longer, leave it.
Judy LaMarsh
#29. I don't want to go into a marriage just because of my age - too many people make that mistake. But of course I'd like to be married one day - I dream of having children because I adore kids so, so much.
Shilpa Shetty
#30. Love of music, of sunsets and sea; a liking for the same kind of people; political opinions that are not radically divergent; a similar stance as we look at the stars and think of the marvelous strangeness of the universe - these are what build a marriage. And it is never to be taken for granted.
Madeleine L'Engle
#31. The more time you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes.
Amy Grant
#32. There are often two conversations going on in a marriage. The one that you're having and the one you're not.
Robin Black
#33. When one writes a novel about grown people, he knows exactly where to stop - that is, with a marriage; but when he writes about juveniles, he must stop where he best can.
Mark Twain
#34. A marriage without children is the world without the sun.
Saint Augustine
#35. When you form a band, you form a real relationship that's like a marriage. It's an emotional connection, especially when you're young ... because you don't know what's out there.
Robert Coppola Schwartzman
#36. There is nothing spiritual about a marriage that uses guilt, blame, shame or religious manipulations to keep a relationship together.
Shannon L. Alder
#37. That was what the season was, after all- a marriage market for the offspring of the aristocracy.
Marissa Doyle
#38. When love dies and a marriage lies in ruins, the first casualty is honest memory, decent, impartial recall of the past. Too inconvenient, too damning of the present. It's the spectre of old happiness at the feast of failure and desolation.
Ian McEwan
#39. The camera only documented what had been there all along, a marriage whose foundations, constructed from the cheap materials of convention and fear, had been buckling for years.
Susan Faludi
#40. Being in a marriage and having children is the greatest pleasure, but it is certainly not the easiest pleasure. It is not like eating ice cream.
Andrew Solomon
#41. To have peace and love in a marriage is a gift that is next to the knowledge of the gospel.
Martin Luther
#42. 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
#43. And in a marriage you can't TRY and be married. You're married or you're not married ... as far as I'm concerned.
Ringo Starr
#44. A band is not a marriage. There are no oaths of allegiance. If you feel your life will be better served by splitting up the group, you've got to do it - but of course it does cause problems.
Steve Winwood
#45. A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not.
Dalton Trumbo
#46. By divine design, men and women are intended to progress together toward perfection and a fulness of glory. Because of their distinctive temperaments and capacities, males and females each bring to a marriage relationship unique perspectives and experiences.
David A. Bednar
#47. All partnerships fail in the end, just like marriages. The only life after death any human being will ever know is staying in a marriage or a partnership after it's over. And that's not life - it's living death.
Greg Iles
#48. I had a marriage that I came to in the same way everybody else comes to a marriage. We all take chances when we get married.
Alec Baldwin
#49. 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
#50. A person's character is what it is. It's a little like a marriage - only without the option of divorce. You can work on it and try to make it better, but basically you have to take the bitter with the sweet.
Hendrik Hertzberg
#51. It's a marriage. If I had to choose between my wife and my putter, well, I'd miss her.
Gary Player
#52. Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
Randy Neugebauer
#53. Thus, the critical dimension in understanding whether a marriage will work or not, becomes the extent to which the male can accept the influence of the woman he loves and become socialized in emotional communication.
John M. Gottman
#54. My mother has said that it's often better for a husband and wife not to understand each other too well," he [Rupert] said. "A little mystery keeps a marriage more interesting, she says.
Loretta Chase
#55. 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
#56. When a man and a woman love one another that is enough. That is marriage. A religious rite is superfluous. And if the man and woman live together without the love, no ceremony in the world can make it a marriage.
Mary MacLane
#57. People should be _very_ careful when choosing the future fathers and mothers of their children. For that reason alone, it is extremely mean to demand a marriage certificate for life, just for one night of embracement.
Wilhelm Reich
#58. And, there are negatives and positives to it. Like, you know, just like a marriage, where you're like, "Well, this ... you know, is the sex still as exciting as it was two years ago?"
Mark Duplass
#59. The truth is many people see a marriage vow as the only way people are going to stay with someone who is sick.
Jenna Morasca
#60. Maybe you once were excited about that person God supernaturally brought into your life as a marriage partner, but now all the excitement has worn off. Don't' allow that sense of a miracle to slip away. Don't get so familiar with each other that you take one another for granted.
Joel Osteen
#61. I see by the papers that they are going to do away with all the nuisance taxes. That means that a man can get a marriage license for nothing.
Will Rogers
#62. Proposition 8 fails to advance any rational basis in singling out gay men and lesbians for denial of a marriage licence. Indeed, the evidence shows Proposition 8 does nothing more than enshrine in the California constitution the notion that opposite-sex couples are superior to same-sex couples.
Vaughn Walker
#63. I have married thriteen couples. I'm about to do a marriage next month.
Sally Kirkland
#64. A marriage of opposites - modern elements with antique pieces - highlights both their individuality and compatibility.
Nancy Price
#65. I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president.
Indra Nooyi
#66. What was the measure of a marriage? These moments of caring and bliss? Or the secrets withheld?
A.J. Banner
#67. Behind many broken friendships there is a marriage.
Pratik Akkawar
#68. For every marriage that is made in Heaven, there is a marriage made in Hell.
Phyllis Chesler
#69. People forget that keeping a band together is hard; man, it's really hard. All the cliches apply about living in each other's pockets; of it being a relationship, a marriage, a family.
Dean Wareham
#70. When you're a father in a marriage, you sort of become the mother's assistant. And you sort of get a list from her every day and you run down the list and it feels very much like a chore.
Louis C.K.
#71. At the end of a marriage it is difficult to recall the beginning.
Shirley Ann Grau
#72. A marriage is hard work. Worth every bit of it though.
Tim Relf
#73. I'm a man who falls in love so easily, and with such reckless lack of consideration for the consequences of my actions, that from the very first instant of entering into a marriage I become, almost by definition, an adulterer.
Michael Chabon
#74. 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
#75. You have a choice in life. Would you rather be lonely or miserable? I would rather be lonely. A lot of people are miserable in a marriage and they don't get along with their wife or husband and it's not worth it.
Robert Kiyosaki
#76. A marriage is like a long trip in a tiny row boat: if one passenger starts to rock the boat, the other has to steady it, otherwise, they will go to the bottom together.
David Reuben
#77. A key to keeping your husband is getting him to miss you. That keeps a marriage fresh.
Tori Amos
#78. How many people actually read the Bible and follow it? The truth is right there. How many people know what a marriage or family is all about? Everything starts with an idea, but getting people to act is different. You can't do something well if you don't know what it is or tried it for awhile.
Phil Mitchell
#79. It's risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk if he comes home too early.
Marcel Achard
#80. Writing a poem is like having an affair, a one-night stand; a short story is a romance, a relationship; a novel is a marriage-one has to be cunning, devise compromises, and make sacrifices.
Amos Oz
#81. It was interesting how a marriage instantly became public property as soon as it looked shaky.
Liane Moriarty
#82. Whatever name civilizations give to the arrangement where a man lives with a woman, it is always better to call it a marriage.
Girdhar Joshi
#83. When a marriage works, it is in no small part because a woman and a man have come to recognize in precise measure when enough has been said.
Laurence Shames
#84. Pink Floyd is like a marriage that's on a permanent trial separation.
Rick Wright
#85. People say, 'What's the secret to a marriage?' There's no secret - I think you get lucky.
Steve Carell
#86. A woman who slaves for a man does not have a marriage; she has a master.
Jeanette Winterson
#87. According to the telephone poll, a full 40 percent of black women felt that the use of physical force was appropriate in a marriage. And black women especially could not abide Marcia Clark.
Jeffrey Toobin
#88. JOE: You said my wife. And I want to know, is she -
PRIOR: TALK TO HER YOURSELF, BULLWINKLE! WHAT DO I LOOK LIKE A MARRIAGE COUNSELOR?
Tony Kushner
#89. Only when waves fall on the shore do they make a harmonious sound;
Only when breezes shake the woods do we hear a rustling in the leaves.
Only from a marriage of two forces does music arise in the world.
Where the is no love, where listeners are dumb, there can never be song.
Rabindranath Tagore
#90. Management must show compassion. Management without compassion is like a marriage without love.' - Malik of America Square.
Mike O'Sullivan
#91. You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#92. Trueborn children are made in a marriage bed and blessed by the Father and the Mother, but bastards are born of lust and weakness.
George R R Martin
#93. 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
#94. The common impulse is not to sustain a marriage by finding satisfaction elsewhere, but to end the marriage and set up a new one which will provide the comfort lacking in the first.
Elizabeth Janeway
#95. We've learned that sometimes a lack of conflict in a marriage means you are not fighting for it. There are times you must battle to become one.
Lisa Bevere
#96. Sometimes in a marriage, it is easier to just buy peace and pay the price of swallowing your ego and keeping quiet.
Preeti Shenoy
#97. Where in the Bible does the young woman initiate a marriage?' Nobody asked bitterly.
'Ahem, well, now that you mention it, in the book of Ruth.
John J. Horn
#98. 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
#99. Dear GIRLS your very own identity is more important than a marriage certificate.
Amit Abraham
#100. I would like a partner but I can see myself without a marriage. I'd love to have someone to sit and talk with and walk on the beach with at 80.
Faye Dunaway
