Quotes About About Marriage

#1. I don't know about marriage as much as I do know that I'd be a great father.

Tyler Perry

#2. Archer had reverted to all his old inherited ideas about marriage. It was less trouble to conform with the tradition and treat May exactly as all his friends treated their wives than to try to put into practice the theories with which his untrammelled bachelorhood had dallied.

Edith Wharton

#3. I told Mama and Savannah about Ruben's proposal. That got us to talking about marriage and we laughed and cried some, and missed Papa, and it felt good to belong to each other. I don't feel as lonely today as I have in months. At least I know there are other women around me.

Nancy E. Turner

#4. I don't believe that art and politics or social issues must be separated. In writing about marriage, for example, money can be a big factor, and money is linked to earning, and earning is influenced by politics.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#5. Thing about marriage i've learned over the years? Just make your partner happy.

Eden Butler

#6. 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

#7. Katherine feels that she must have learned something about marriage from being married before that is now working to her benefit. However, she doesn't know quite what it is, or how, actually, it works.

Joy Williams

#8. I do think about marriage, but it's not the end-all goal.

Chelsea Handler

#9. I don't have this fantasy about marriage anymore. Everyone says it takes hard work. Well, it kind of does - and I'm much more pragmatic about romance than I used to be.

Jennifer Garner

#10. When talking about marriage, Allah says your spouses are garments for you. A garment may or may not fit perfectly-but either way, it covers imperfections, protects, and beautifies.

Yasmin Mogahed

#11. The great thing about marriage is that it creates trust, the most precious of things.

Theodore Zeldin

#12. I was flying home from LA and all of a sudden I looked out at the clouds and I realized, Jesus we are really flying, and it was the most wonderful and miraculous thing, and about a minute later the feelings of anxiety and panic begin.
I feel the same way about marriage, today.

Suzanne Finnamore

#13. I don't profess to know anything about marriage that anybody else doesn't know, or how to make it right. I don't want to read about somebody who's giving me relationship advice. So I try to keep some things for myself, to have a private life.

Scarlett Johansson

#14. Right now, I'm not really thinking about marriage.

Adam Lambert

#15. That's the thing about marriage. It's a shell game we play with ourselves. We're the suckers and we have to lose, but we play anyway because we lie to ourselves that we can win.

R. K. Milholland

#16. There's something about marriage that is not as intensely romantic or interesting as a couple's first meeting.

John Sandford

#17. I'm afraid many young people today have very romantic ideas about marriage - ideas that do not necessarily reflect the truth ... Romantic feelings alone are not enough when the problems and strains come - as they inevitably do.

Billy Graham

#18. The kids ask about marriage. It's meaning more and more to them. So it's something we've got to look at.

Brad Pitt

#19. Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we're still no nearer to understanding one another.

E. M. Forster

#20. I received a gift
it was the first decent piece of instruction about marriage I had ever been given in my 25 years of live. Does your husband make you a better person?

Ann Patchett

#21. Divorce is not always a doorway to happiness. The same can be said about marriage.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#22. When you're a writer, you want to try to avoid cliches. Unfortunately, when you're writing about marriage or family, all cliches seem to apply.

Dan Savage

#23. There is something unnatural about marriage. These two people are not going to be the same people in a few years. The trick is to live your own life while sharing the same space.

Dustin Hoffman

#24. Franny and Leo didn't talk about marriage, except sometimes sentimentally in bed, his hands spreading wide across her back, and even then it was only to say how quickly they would have married had it not been for the future and the past. What

Ann Patchett

#25. I am very old-fashioned about marriage. It is for life and I mean it. I always knew that when I met the right girl, the life I had before - being single, in a band, girls everywhere - would be over.

Gary Numan

#26. I guess the best thing about marriage is the fact you've got the coolest partner you can imagine by your side for all the things you're going to face in your life. So far, Juliet's been there for me. She's been good for my voice, good for my everything.

Julian Casablancas

#27. I'm not cynical about marriage or romance. I enjoyed being married. And although being single was fun for a while, there was always the risk of dating someone who'd owned a lunch box with my picture on it.

Shaun Cassidy

#28. The beautiful thing about marriage is the right it gives me to monogamy. One man intent on dictating my whereabouts is enough, wouldn't you think?

Courtney Milan

#29. My mom, Emilie, always taught me to think hard about marriage.

Alyson Hannigan

#30. A lot of books about marriage are about marriages falling apart.

Lauren Groff

#31. I never had a policy about marriage. I got married very young in life and I always think in all relationships, I've always thought that it's counterproductive to have a theory on that.

Jack Nicholson

#32. Instead of talking at each other about the non-business-related contact, talk to each other about your concerns about marriage. Listen a lot, too.

Carolyn Hax

#33. Among themselves, they had figured out how to go about marriage so as to accomplish the least damage. t The husbands lived two hours away...

Charles Frazier

#34. Quotes about marriage are surprised filled.

Jon Jones

#35. The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

Oscar Wilde

#36. Jesus and Paul knew the Old Testament completely. Their comments about divorce were meant to add to, not replace or change, what was already written in the Old Testament about marriage and divorce.

Caroline Abbott

#37. Oh just wait. It takes a lot of time, that's all ... You'll have come to a certain kind of appreciation that moves beyond all the definitions of love you've ever had. A certain richness happens only later in life. I guess its' a kind of mellowing. p 80
talking about marriage and husbands

Elizabeth Berg

#38. Marriage? I don't know what I really think about marriage. I'm a bit confused on that issue.

Madonna Ciccone

#39. You know what they say about marriage? A man can either be right or happy.

James Runcie

#40. I can look back at different times in my life when I felt I could not find my way out of whatever it was. I'm not necessarily talking about marriage, but I wanted to pack it in. I wanted to disappear. A lot of that has to do with being in the public eye.

Amy Grant

#41. What I've learned about marriage: You need to have each other's back; you have to be a kind of team going through life.

Tom Petty

#42. People are incredibly rude about it sometimes. Like, 'What? You're married?' Strange reaction to have. Proves what people's ideas about marriage are. 'We're having a baby.' 'What?' As if it's the end of the world. Of course, it's the start of a brilliant world.

Ewan McGregor

#43. I think it's almost immoral to keep on with a marriage that's really bad. It just gets more and more rotten and vindictive and everybody gets more and more hurt. There's not enough honesty about marriage, I think. I wish more people would face the truth about their marital situations.

Johnny Carson

#44. Dick Armey is an economic conservative. He is not a social conservative. He doesn't like to talk about marriage and about the unborn child, the sanctity of life and things like that. He wants to talk about smaller government.

James Dobson

#45. This had always frightened her about marriage: how satisfied married people seemed, how unable they were to ask for more. She couldn't imagine feeling satisfied.

Brit Bennett

#46. Optimism is America's birthright ... There is no social problem Americans
dare not attack. No problem, that is, except one: about marriage,
and marriage alone, we despair.

Maggie Gallagher

#47. Our tendency today is to assume that we can eliminate the authority of husband over wife and yet retain the authority of husband-wife over the children. The Bible is more realistic about marriage than modern man, for the truth is that in disobeying the one hierarchy we destroy the other.

Charles F. Stanley

#48. It seemed to her sometimes that the most important thing about marriage was not a home or children or a remedy against sin, but simply there being always an eye to catch.

Jan Struther

#49. He's the one guy I can credit for making me think about marriage in a whole new light, because every guy I've had in my life has either lied or cheated me financially or business-wise, or taken advantaged of me.

Christina Aguilera

#50. If she could find a man who could feel and laugh as well as desire, she might even think about thinking about marriage.

Melanie Rawn

#51. I have a lot of skepticism about marriage and monogamy.

Rashida Jones

#52. I had learned so much about marriage from Missy that I only had to get divorced two more times.

Terry Bradshaw

#53. Many people are skeptical about marriage of Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Pressley. They say, Lisa Marie is more of a sit at home type, while Michael Jackson is more of a homosexual pedophile.

Norm MacDonald

#54. It's like people always say, Well, does sport teach you anything in life? It teaches you certain things, but it doesn't teach you other things. It doesn't teach, as I say, very much about marriage, very much about how to make a living, any of those things.

George Plimpton

#55. Women are wonderfully practical,' murmured Lord Henry, 'much more practical than we are. In situations of that kind we often forget to say anything about marriage, and they always remind us.

Oscar Wilde

#56. I don't give a damn about marriage. But I do care about honor.

Katharine Hepburn

#57. 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

#58. Recently I read the stories I wrote in my early 20s, to put in a volume. And here is this brittle young woman, writing about marriage as, not the worst thing, but the most boring thing that could happen to a person. Now I think I was wrong. I like to be proven wrong.

Anne Enright

#59. This was one of the secret jokes about marriage. People turned out to be exactly the opposite of how they'd seemed at first; they then went on changing randomly, as though enacting a hypothesis of unceasing chaos.

Anjali Joseph

#60. I've always been very skeptical about marriage, because I only want to do it once; I want to do it the right way.

Sandra Bullock

#61. Schopenhauer writes about marriage. He says getting married is like grasping blind into a sack of snakes and hoping to find an eel.

Laura Moriarty

#62. You know what's punk rock about marriage? Nothing. You know what's punk rock about marriage? All the puke and shit and piss.

Jenny Offill

#63. I'm not really interested in thinking about marriage or kids at all.

Stacy Keibler

#64. The most important thing about marriage is that the man must not let the woman feel downtrodden simply because she is a woman and he is a man.

Saddam Hussein

#65. I find in most novels no imagination at all. They seem to think the highest form of the novel is to write about marriage, because that's the most important thing there is for middle-class people.

Gore Vidal

#66. In articulating all my feelings about marriage equality, I almost don't know where to begin. And perhaps that's part of the problem. Why do we have to explain ourselves when it comes to issues of fairness and equality? Why is common sense not enough?

Scott Fujita

#67. The most terrible thing about marriage, I suppose, is that we know and understand each other's weaknesses and fears as much as we know our strengths and desires.

Nancy Thayer

#68. I kind of go back and forth about marriage and kids. I feel like, if it's an organic way for me and the right time in my life, then, yeah.

Jessica Biel

#69. I have learnt that a good marriage is healing for the soul, something to relish. But a bad marriage is long-suffering, a thing to be endured. The only good thing about marriage is that it's perishable like human life.

Meghna Pant

#70. If there was one ubiquitous recommendation about marriage it was this: "Don't go to bed angry."

Daniel Kahneman

#71. What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.

Alain De Botton

#72. My grandparents got married at a very young age, and a lot of what I think about marriage is based on their relationship.

Kyle Chandler

#73. Christians are increasingly being punished by the government for acting on their sincerely held religious beliefs about marriage that are based on the standard of Scripture.

Ken Ham

#74. Something is definitely wrong with my feelings about marriage and procreation. I worry that not only am I missing the chromosome that allows me to dance respectably, but that I am also lacking a conventional vagina.

Chelsea Handler

#75. I loved everything about marriage. I loved having a companion to wake up with and have barbecues with. But things happen and people grow apart.

Jessica Simpson

#76. Having had five husbands, I guess I should know a thing or two about marriage.

Joan Collins

#77. She thought that they could live together for twenty years and he might never consider asking her about marriage. Tom didn't follow the usual patterns.
If marriage was what she wanted, then she would have to be the one to propose to him.

Bonnie Dee

#78. I never thought I'd spend all my life with Gary. I suppose I was quite cynical about marriage. But with Jude, I knew right from the beginning: there was an electricity I'd never felt before. It was so easy, we talked for hours. It was a relief, really.

Sadie Frost

#79. The Jesus People experience proved to be a staging area for tens of thousands of young Americans who were making up their mind about marriage, schooling, and careers

Larry Eskridge

#80. And of course there was no help for it, except recalling bits of conversations she had overheard from time to time about marriage. That's what knitting groups and sewing groups were for, wasn't it? Commiserating about marriage.

Jane Smiley

#81. And that's the thing about marriage. It can look perfect to people from the outside but be utterly imperfect on the inside. The reverse is true as well. No one knows what goes on in a marriage except for the two people living in it.

Elin Hilderbrand

#82. Divorce exposes absolutely ever buried assumption about marriage ... how a husband's sense of entitlement and a wife's sense of duty turned the principle of 'our money, our kids' into the reality of 'his money, her kids.

Mary Blakely

#83. And I loved her so much I couldn't conceive of ever parting from her; true, we never talked about marriage, but at least was asbolutely serious about marrying her one day

Milan Kundera

#84. The only good thing about marriage is becoming a widow

Isabel Allende

#85. Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.

Bill Cosby

#86. One of the best things about marriage is that it gets young people to bed at a decent hour.

M. M. Musselman

#87. You can't know about marriage until you try it.

Greg Evigan

#88. I don't have any romantic ideas about marriage. Trust me. A white dress ... ? No. It's not something for me.

Diane Kruger

#89. I'm not convinced about marriage. Divorce is so easy, and that fact that gay people are not allowed to marry takes much of the meaning out of it. Committing yourself to one person is sacred.

Natalie Portman

#90. I've done an informal, anecdotal survey about marriage, and I've found no evidence that it brings happiness.

Mary McCormack

#91. Personally I'm an advocate for healthy marriages and families and I do a lot of speaking around the country sharing my faith and talking to women's groups, even specifically about marriage.

Candace Cameron

#92. 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

#93. Jessica Cameron had to propose marriage in a couple of hours, and she was a little nervous about it. Trying

Noelle Adams

#94. 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

#95. 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

#96. What about me?" Wes snapped. "Don't I get a vote?"
Daniel shook his head. "She's willing and you're breathing. I pronounce you man and wife.

Jodi Thomas

#97. 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

#98. 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

#99. 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

#100. I've always thought flight was fun and wanted to write about flight, and I knew a lot of househusbands who were having a really bad time with it. I thought flight might perk up a marriage here or there.

Steven Amsterdam