Top 100 Quotes About Marriage
#1. Bush looked straight into the camera and said 'We must preserve the sanctity of marriage!' You know, straight people are doing such a fucking great job.
Greg Proops
#2. The Puritan ethic of marriage was first to look not for a partner whom you do love passionately at this moment but rather for one whom you can love steadily as your best friend for life, then to proceed with God's help to do just that.
J.I. Packer
#3. If you believe, if you value and treasure and revere the institution of marriage, then you should want every family unit to be really wrapped in marriage.
Nicolle Wallace
#4. What the restored gospel brings to the discussion on marriage and family is so large and so relevant that it cannot be overstated: we make the subject eternal!
L. Tom Perry
#5. The one word above all others that makes marriage successful is 'ours.'
Robert Quillen
#6. Marry me, Esme. Please. Honor me. I will honor you as your husband never did. Our marriage would be a remedy against sin, if anyone could ever call it a sin to love you.
Sebastian Bonnington to Esme Rawlings
Eloisa James
#8. Why is that fairy-tales always treat marriage as an ending? And always such a perfectly happy one?
Salman Rushdie
#9. Marriage - as well as erotic friendships and sexual liaisons -between members of contrasting races and religions will take place with greater frequency, and will be more accepted than it is today.
Herbert Otto Gille
#10. You can't know about marriage until you try it.
Greg Evigan
#11. Having kids sent a tornado through your marriage, then made you happy for the devastation. Even if you could rebuild everything just the way it was before, you'd never want to.
Rainbow Rowell
#12. My first marriage was not happy. I married him because I was impressed that he knew which wines to order and how to leave his visiting card. Ridiculous reasons.
Jean Seberg
#13. Marriage doesn't create problems. It reveals them. You bring unresolved stuff into it.
Rick Warren
#14. Gay marriage is a complete red herring to distract everyone from the economy and the war and health care and education.
David O. Russell
#15. It is my belief that no matter how advanced man may become in science, technology, systems, and knowledge, he can never improve on the foundational precepts of marriage as the bedrock of social development.
Myles Munroe
#16. Disagreeable suspicions are usually the fruits of a second marriage.
Jean Racine
#17. For marriage is like life in this - that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#18. Perhaps it is not such a bad marriage after all? There are innumerable marriages where two people, both twisted and wrong in their depths, are well matched, making each other miserable in the way they need, in the way the pattern of their life demands.
Doris Lessing
#19. All the men of the Old Testament were polygamists, and Christ and Paul, the central figures of the New Testament, were celibates, and condemned marriage by both precept and example.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#20. The 'good-enough marriage' is definitely not good enough for today's singles. We're not content to marry someone who happens to live down the street and gets along okay with our parents.
Aziz Ansari
#21. The greatest insult came at the marriage ceremony when the minister asked 'who giveth this woman,' and some brother, or father or other man, unblushingly said he did, as though it were entirely a commercial transaction between men.
Nellie L. McClung
#22. Marriage is a long-term commitment. You should only step into that commitment if you truly love the person and want to spend your life with her.
Nick Vujicic
#23. The secret to a happy marriage is patience and honesty. I really mean that. You have to be patient, you have to be open, and you also have to be available for criticism, too.
Cindy McCain
#24. Do I think a marriage with him would last? I have my doubts. There, I said it. But marraige is always a risk. And so what if it doesn't work? Would that make you absolutely unhappy for the rest of your life? I would hope not.
Amy Stolls
#25. In 1835 at Kirtland I learned from my Sisters Husband Lyman R. Shirman, who was close to the Prophet and Received it from him. That the ancient order of plural marriage was again to be practiced by the Church.
Benjamin F. Johnson
#26. I don't like dating or just living with a woman. I like to create a relationship, a marriage. And almost all of my marriages have involved children, so I'm really a family man as well.
Neil Simon
#27. But above all, marriage is about wanting to share your life with someone you really, truly love but staying with your spouse instead, no matter how much they irritate and ignore you.
Mrs. Stephen Fry
#28. There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room, and to have a discussion coolly waived when you feel that justice is all on your own side is even more exasperating in marriage than in philosophy.
George Eliot
#29. Two people can only live as one when each is prepared to give and receive trust and understanding. Above that lies respect. Without respect for how the other feels, no marriage is worthwhile.
Helen Hollick
#30. I am fiscally prudent and socially progressive. I believe in protecting a woman's right to choose. I believe in marriage equality.
Andrew Cuomo
#31. Marriage equals work. It doesnt just happen. There will never be anyone whom we can call a perfect match.
Ika Natassa
#32. Marriage is not only time: it is also, parodoxically, the denial of time. For forty years I saw myself through John's eyes. I did not age.
Joan Didion
#33. Republicans don't want to shrink government. They want more and more military, more and more surveillance. They'd like to have the government banning gay marriage and so forth.
John Zerzan
#34. A productive marriage requires falling in enjoy numerous occasions, usually with the identical man or woman.
Mignon McLaughlin
#36. Marriage is a tyranny, a mortification of man's natural instincts. Man needs a multiplicity of relationships.
Federico Fellini
#37. "Marriage" is an internationally recognized word that says we are committed as a couple and are responsible for each other and any children that we have.
Rosie O'Donnell
#38. Isn't it sad that a man of no significance like this marriage clerk should impede the progress of your life? But a lowly worm eats the corpses of the most exalted individuals.
Naguib Mahfouz
#40. I once had a dream about getting a marriage, house in the country, and at the end of the day we'd retire, but I'm never going to retire.
Ozzy Osbourne
#41. Young women with ambitions should be very crafty and cautious, lest mayhap they be caught in the soft, silken mesh of a happy marriage, and go down to oblivion, dead to the world.
Elbert Hubbard
#42. What makes for a good marriage isn't necessarily what makes for a good romantic relationship. Marriage isn't a passion-fest; it's a partnership formed to run a very small, mundane and often boring non-profit business. And I mean this in a good way.
Lori Gottlieb
#43. Marriage equality does not diminish the worth of your relationships; it simply recognises the worth of ours.
Penny Wong
#44. What you learn when you direct a film, even more so than as a producer, it's a marriage. It's like a relationship with that film so you've got to make sure that it's really something that you want to live with for three years or however long it is. So I haven't found the right thing to marry yet.
Grant Heslov
#45. Americans love marriage too much. We rush into mariage with abandon, expecting a micro-Utopia on earth. We pile all our needs onto it, our expectations, neuroses, and hopes. In fact, we've made marriage into the panda bear of human social institutions: we've loved it to death.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#46. We were far more civilized in our divorce than we had ever been in marriage. It seemed we'd finally found something we could do together amicably.
Robyn Carr
#48. The homely and erotic patters of marriage are not easily discarded.
Ian McEwan
#49. 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
#50. Marriage is such a mark of adulthood in my mind.
Mandy Moore
#51. I think that, as with marriage, you just know when it's time to have kids.
Ashley Judd
#52. Easy, Sage, you have no idea. I just agreed to betray my marriage vows, my husband, and my beating heart.
N.D. Jones
#53. Seek a happy marriage with wholeness of heart,
but do not expect to reach the promised land
without going through some wilderness together.
Charlie W Shedd
#54. I'm here!" I shouted. "Your bride! Congratulations on your marriage!
Rosamund Hodge
#56. The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.
Dan Savage
#57. I am satisfied that a happy marriage is not so much a matter of romance as it is an anxious concern for the comfort and well-being of one's companion.
-Gordon B. Hinckley
Gordon B. Hinckley
#58. The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest.
Anne Tyler
#59. In the 21st Century, the anti-traditional marriage community is in league with the anti-life community, and together with the NAACP and other sympathizers, they are seeking a world where homosexual marriage and abortion will supposedly set the captives free.
Alveda King
#60. Traditional marriage is what should be sanctioned.
Jeb Bush
#61. The romantic fairy tales we grew up with -- where marriage is the happy ending rather than the opening scene -- are not useful for grown-ups.
Ada Calhoun
#62. The story of their marriage. Bits of time stolen between lives apart.
Alessandra Torre
#63. Such an act
That blurs the grace and blush of modesty;
Calls virtue hypocrite; takes off the rose
From the fair forehead of an innocent love,
And sets a blister there; makes marriage vows
As false as dicers' oaths.
William Shakespeare
#65. Marriage should, I think, always be a little bit hard and new and strange. It should be breaking your shell and going into another world, and a bigger one.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#66. To the gay community I apologize if I did something, but all I said was I was against same-sex marriage. But I am not condemning you. My favorite expression is, 'Love one another ... as you love yourself, love thy neighbor'
Manny Pacquiao
#67. We had a happy marriage because we were together all the time. We were friends as well as husband and wife. We just had a good time.
Julia Child
#68. I suspect Reuben Abati is the product of same sex marriage
Femi Fani-Kayode
#69. Didn't she know?
"Yes" to dinner today.
"Yes" to marriage tomorrow.
Dammit, he had a schedule to keep.
A schedule that involved getting her sweet ass into bed as fast as humanly possible.
Shelly Laurenston
#70. Relationships are most likely to fail when we don't address problems or hold our partner accountable for unfair or irresponsible behavior ... the ability to clarify our values, beliefs, and life goals
and then to keep our behavior congruent with them
is at the heart of a solid marriage.
Harriet Lerner
#71. The secret to having a good marriage is to understand that marriage must
be total, it must be permanent, and it must be equal.
Frank Pittman
#72. It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#73. The decisions we make regarding vocation, child rearing, education, civic and church involvement, and other areas of life create changes that affect our marriage relationships. The manner in which couples process these changes will determine the quality of their marriages.
Gary Chapman
#74. When observers look back 50 years from now, the arguments supporting Florida's ban on same-sex marriage, though just as sincerely held [as views of those who were opposed to interracial marriage], will again seem an obvious pretext for discrimination.
Robert Lewis Hinkle
#75. 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
#76. I vow on my life-magic that you'll be my first in every way ... in marriage and everything that goes with it.
A.G. Howard
#77. I'm afraid many women do choose the wedding over the marriage. It seems a steep price to pay, but it comes from a place of deep, sad longing to be loved and to have it proven that you are of value.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#78. The only recognized purpose of marriage was to beget children for the service of the Party. Sexual
George Orwell
#79. But there's no emergency kit for marriage. No neat plan you can turn to when the ground shifts beneath your feet.
Michelle Richmond
#80. Gay marriage is going to happen. It must.
Lady Gaga
#81. Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
Novalis
#82. After years of struggle, the U.S. Supreme Court today has made same-sex marriage a reality in California ... I have directed the California Department of Public Health to advise the state's counties that they must begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in California
Jerry Brown
#83. People do not marry people, not real ones anyway; they marry what they think the person is; they marry illusions and images. The exciting adventure of marriage is finding out who the partner really is.
James Framo
#84. If you only think of yourself, there's no room for another in marriage.
Barbara Lieberman
#86. My thoughts on gay marriage are that everyone has the right to love and be loved, and that's the position I take.
Nick Jonas
#87. In a sacred ground like marriage, you find yourself out of it at certain times for reasons unknown that can be destructive. There could be a demon that kind of comes out and overtakes you.
David Boreanaz
#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. Couples are really funny, because if they are together, they can fight and do fun things together. In Jane Austen books, marriage is the end of the story, but I actually think a really funny couple could be a fun thing to watch.
Mindy Kaling
#91. In 1925 Woolf began an affair with Sackville-West, who was married to Harold Nicolson, the diplomat and writer, and the development of their close relationship, which does not seem to have undermined either woman's marriage, coincided with Woolf 's most productive years as a writer.
Jane Goldman
#92. As the head of a religious party, I am not in favor of civil marriage or the full recognition of non-Orthodox converts in Israel.
Ayelet Shaked
#93. Marriage is great. It'll calm you down - that and neutering.
Kevin Nealon
#95. Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand.
James Taylor
#96. Love is a vessel that contains both security and adventure, and commitment offers one of the great luxuries of life: time. Marriage is not the end of romance, it is the beginning.
Esther Perel
#97. The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#98. The entire future of marriage rests with Justice Anthony Kennedy, the man who declared in Citizens United that corporations are people with constitutional rights. I just hope he doesn't do anything rash, like declare that homosexuals are people with constitutional rights.
Stephen Colbert
#99. In marriage, those who persevere are rewarded with the most precious thing this earth has to offer: Marital love
a partnership that conquers the years. It takes time, but those who persevere are rewarded with, falling in love with their spouse.
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Michael Ben Zehabe
#100. Culture is like the current of the ocean. Where has it taken your marriage?
Ted Lowe
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