Top 100 Quotes About Marriages
#1. 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
#2. I'm so grateful for the marriages that I have had. I wouldn't be who I am today if I hadn't had those.
Cheryl Tiegs
#3. I would separate marriages into rational and irrational and I would included both love and arranged marriages as irrational marriage.
Rational marriage for me is when you can really understand by mind not by heart.
M.F. Moonzajer
#4. I guess funny people are attracted to funny people, and then you get comedy marriages.
Casey Wilson
#5. Library books were, I suddenly realized, promiscuous, ready to lie down in the arms of anyone who asked. Not like bookstore books, which married their purchasers, or were brokered for marriages to others.
Elizabeth McCracken
#6. There are two kinds of marriages - where the husband quotes the wife and where the wife quotes the husband.
Clifford Odets
#7. I was appalled and shocked that Bush used the State of the Union to attack same-sex marriages and indicated that he would support a constitutional amendment.
Jean O'Leary
#8. The starting point for the new history, both in Europe and America, has been the record of births, marriages, and deaths, which most literate societies preserve in one form or another. In colonial America, surviving records of this kind - as of every other kind - are most abundant for New England.
Edmund Morgan
#9. Divorce isn't caused because 50% of marriages end in gayness.
Jon Stewart
#10. Half of all marriages end in divorce- and then there are the really unhappy ones.
Joan Rivers
#11. Businesses that run well are almost like marriages. Everything has to be up for discussion, or there will be real problems.
Nobu Matsuhisa
#12. Fifty per cent of all marriages end in divorce. But look at the bright side: the other 50 per cent end in death.
Richard Jeni
#13. Women are unhappy in their marriages because they want men to be more related than most men know how to be. And men are unhappy in their marriages because their women seem so unhappy with them.
Terrence Real
#14. I don't know, one out of every two marriages ends up in divorce so there's a lot of great people out there who people aren't happy with.
Mark Ruffalo
#15. Long marriages have ended in ruin over tiny and insignificant grievances that were never properly aired and instead grew into a brittle barnacle of hatred.
Augusten Burroughs
#16. Most marriages can survive 'better or worse'. The tester is all the years of 'exactly the same'.
Robert Breault
#17. There is much to be said for exotic marriages. If your husband is a bore, it takes years longer to discover.
Saul Bellow
#18. I understand why marriages break up over golf. I can't even talk about my own handicap because it's too upsetting.
Shia Labeouf
#19. Single mothers have as much to teach their children as married mothers and as much love to share
maybe more. Yet their motives are often labeled selfish and single-minded
never mind all the babies brought into the world to snag husbands, "save" faltering marriages or produce heirs.
Anne Cassidy
#20. The Bible does not oppose or forbid interracial marriages but sees them as a positive good for the glory of Christ.
John Piper
#21. No Congress ever has seen fit to amend the Constitution to address any issue related to marriage. No Constitutional Amendment was needed to ban polygamy or bigamy, nor was a Constitutional Amendment needed to set a uniform age of majority to ban child marriages.
Judy Biggert
#22. Marriages do not take root in the presence of witnesses but only in the consciousness of the persons involved.
Libbie Block
#23. About every six to eight months, I run into a man who astounds me sexually, but between escapades, I'm celibate, which I don't think is any big deal. After two unsuccessful marriages, I find myself keeping my guard up, along with my underpants.
Sue Grafton
#25. After four marriages, and four deaths, she had everything in life a woman might desire: titled position, swollen coffers, the freedom to travel, and a world that accepted her because it was afraid of her.
Gail Carriger
#26. Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.
John D. MacDonald
#27. The mere idea that you are not in a place for the rest of your life gives you an awfully unstable feeling. That's why trial marriages would never work. You've got to feel you're in a thing irrevocably and forever in order to buckle down and really put your whole mind into making it a success.
Jean Webster
#28. We can't out-dream our Creator when it comes to our marriages
Justin Davis
#29. In Hollywood, there is no bigger commitment you can make than to a TV series. Even marriages pale in comparison. Marriages don't require signing iron-clad multiyear contracts. At least, most first marriages don't.
Carlton Cuse
#30. Just because times change and alot of people think that dating multiple people is the thing these days, it just isn't a solid foundation at all in matters of the heart. I still believe in marriages that have a physically powerful foundation.
Angela Merkel
#31. They say marriages work better if you don't know the person too well. Maybe we should stop writing each other posthaste.
Bill Callahan
#32. 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
#33. Some marriages are made in heaven,
Mine was made in Hong Kong, by the same people who make those little rubber pork chops they sell in the pet department at Kmart.
Tom Robbins
#34. Many people from many different walks of life have marriages that break up, and those are deeply personal, deeply painful but ultimately private matters.
Nicola Sturgeon
#35. Women are storytellers, they are communicators. They'll go and sit around a table and talk about their first date, their first smoke, their first lipstick, whatever it is. Those rituals of life, marriages and death aren't part of the language of men.
Anita Roddick
#36. Conflicting egos destroy many relationships. Lasting, stable marriages are a true treasure because they demand that both parties adjust to the constant cellular flux of their partner as they metaphase through changing seasons of life.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#37. We Americans are hard on almost everything. We are hard on our vehicles, our marriages and our heroes. Mostly, however, we are hard on ourselves.
Henry Rollins
#38. Of course, bad marriages are so pervasive that they have invaded the faith community too.
Jerry B. Jenkins
#39. In all marriages there is the imbalance: one who loves more than the other. One who licks wounds in secret, the rust-taste of blood.
Joyce Carol Oates
#40. Marriages are made by the abundant grace of God. Children are born, raised, and cared for by the mercy of a God who cares for us and our little ones.
Courtney Reissig
#41. When your first marriage goes into tragedy, you become very battle-scarred ... I even thought of suicide. Luckily, I had known some happy marriages.
Paul Engle
#42. As Jane stared at Vishous and felt his body against hers, she knew she was never letting him go. Ever. And she also knew that if they could make it through the past week, they had the staying power that good marriages - or matings - required.
J.R. Ward
#43. I think happy, companionate marriages between men and women who respect each other (as far as is consistent with being actual human beings) should be every bit as poetry-worthy as angst, bitterness, and shame.
Delia Sherman
#44. If we accept that the love of praise is a sin, that the lust to be known and appreciated by others is not just a fool's errand...but perhaps evidence of a heart focused on the wrong things, our marriages will be transformed.
Gary Thomas
#45. But I believe that there are marriages where you can have your pool table and she can have her scrapbooking room or garden or whatever it is. But when everyone has what they want, it's not funny. There's no conflict.
Brad Garrett
#46. Prostitutes, more than any other profession, help keep American marriages together.
Brendan Behan
#47. Few people who marry plan for their marriages to fail, but neither do they specifically plan for success.
Myles Munroe
#48. When we mother well, we teach our children to embrace the moral obligations that build solid relationships, healthy marriages, and secure families.
Jani Ortlund
#49. Some people have their marriages annulled, which means they never existed. Boy, talk about denial! What do you say when people see your wedding album? 'Oh that was just some play I was in.
Carol Leifer
#50. Gerald Westerby, he told himself. You were present at your birth. You were present at your several marriages and at some of your divorces, and you will certainly be present at your funeral. High time, in our considered view, that you were present at certain other crucial moments in your history.
John Le Carre
#51. Aren't all marriages kind of gay? As a man, when you get marries, essentially what you're saying is 'I will never touch another woman as long as I live, now let's put jewellery on each other and dance
Jimmy Kimmel
#52. Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#53. Not having insurance not only destroys your life, it destroys your fiscal life. It breaks up marriages. You cannot functions anywhere unless you have good health.
Charles B. Rangel
#54. What was very interesting to me about Clementine Hunter's work is that she couldn't read or write, and she has recorded history of the plantation life and the southern part of the U.S. - the cotton harvests, pecan picking, washing clothes, funerals, marriages - in pictures.
Robert Wilson
#55. In every union roles are assumed, some traditional, some not. My husband used to pay his own bills, I used to call my own repairman. But as marriages progress, you surrender areas of your own competence, often without even knowing it.
Ayelet Waldman
#56. In most marriages, one of the couple is more in love than the other, and it's best if it's the man. The marriage will have a better chance of going the whole way.
Mary Higgins Clark
#57. Many marriages break up over hormonal imbalance, which is truly sad because it comes from a lack of understanding. When hormones are put back in balance with natural bioidentical hormones, a woman or man resumes their normal life of feeling good and having days filled with quality.
Suzanne Somers
#58. Character, not passion keeps marriages together long enough to do their work of raising children into mature, responsible, productive citizens.
Frank Pittman
#59. In most marriages, lust and love become tempered by normalcy.
Kristan Higgins
#60. Marriages are said to be made in Heaven, which may be why they don't work here on Earth.
Thomas Szasz
#61. We spend our lives trying to get along with people so we can keep our jobs, keep our marriages together, so that we can raise our kids properly.
Helen Fisher
#62. We'll be friends through jobs and kids and marriages.
Kristin Hannah
#63. For me, my family and my faith have been what's really been my anchor, and grounding me, and helping me navigate through a lot of the things that really destroy marriages in Hollywood, and in your own personal integrity.
Kirk Cameron
#64. With a shiver of foreboding he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and social interests held together by ignorance on the one side and hypocrisy on the other.
Edith Wharton
#65. Those who don't take themselves too seriously have marriages that seem to just be better.
Fawn Weaver
#66. People have notions of what a wife's role should be in this process, and it's been a traditional one of blind adoration. My model is a little different - I think most real marriages are.
Michelle Obama
#67. All marriages were a consequence of security, tradition, money and beauty. Love was a chance, a lucky coincidence. Its existence was an after-thought, for more serious matters cemented marriage.
Meghna Pant
#68. The facts are plain: Religious leaders who preside over marriage ceremonies must and will be guided by what they believe. If they do not wish to celebrate marriages for same-sex couples, that is their right. The Supreme Court says so. And the Charter says so.
Paul Martin
#69. Oh, yes, they're still angry. At Third World aid, cuts in the defence budget, women priests, marriages for homosexuals, our new countrymen, all the things you would guess would upset these old boys. In their hearts they're still fascists.
Jo Nesbo
#70. It was true; always had been. Friendships were like marriages in that way. Routines and patterns were poured early and hardened like cement.
Kristin Hannah
#72. I know no marriages which fail and come to grief more quickly than those which are set on foot by beauty and amorous desire.
Michel De Montaigne
#73. No wonder so many marriages ended in divorce. Marriage sucked and husbands were the worse.
Kylie Scott
#74. Divorce, and broken marriages, are all around us, but they're not frequently depicted on screen, or if they are, they're often depicted in ways that have very little to do with reality.
Katie Hafner
#75. Why shouldn't gay people be allowed to be able to marry? Those against gay marriages say marriage should only be between a man and a woman. God, I of all people know that doesn't always work!
Elizabeth Taylor
#76. Nations fight against nations, in marriages people fight against each other, children fight against each other. We are in warfare, in a national warfare, and in warfare with each other and with ourselves.
Charles Stanley
#77. My friends tried to ignore my quirks since they didn't have a clue what to do about them. It didn't seem hard on them though. They were already trained to ignore their parents' alcohol abuse, constant bickering, serial marriages, and nonsensical advice.
Terry Spencer Hesser
#78. Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want.
John Fowles
#79. In life there is no formula for 'Marriage" every experience differ as well as every couples differ,so all we have to do is to invite God into our marriages because he is the 'KEY" TO OUR HAPPINESS.
Nthabiseng Motjamela
#80. ...even good marriages sometimes involve flinging a remote control at the wall.
Ada Calhoun
#81. I love not knowing what's going to happen next. With work, you never know. You rehearse and strive and get it right sometimes, and still you never know. Some people are like that with their marriages. They work and strive and labour and toil at them. God, what a bore! What an unromantic bore!
Celia Imrie
#82. Mergers are like marriages. They are the bringing together of two individuals. If you wouldn't marry someone for the 'operational efficiencies' they offer in the running of a household, then why would you combine two companies with unique cultures and identities for that reason?
Simon Sinek
#83. Resentment is anger looking for payback. It's also a high-interest-earning emotion. Each new resentment is added to the ones from before. Long marriages have ended in ruin over tiny and insignificant grievances that were never properly aired and instead grew into a bitter barnacle of hatred.
Augusten Burroughs
#84. The biggest change in dating between 2004 and 2014 was that one-third of all marriages in America began with online relationships, compared to a fraction of that in the decade before.
Daniel J. Levitin
#85. We live in grief for having left the womb, for having left the teat, then school, then home. In my case, it was leaving marriages, and the death of my wife.
William Shatner
#86. The only healthy marriages that survive are the ones where two people became best friends and learned how to rescue one another, over and over again.
Shannon L. Alder
#87. In the beginning of the human race there was no genetic load which would cause undesirable traits such as appear in offspring of marriages between relatives today.
Walter Lang
#88. We're married for the summer. Summer marriages don't get dragged down in heavy stuff.
Christina Lauren
#89. I'm not someone who has had to deal with much personal drama outside of the usual: growing up with parents who hated each other, two marriages and divorces of my own. There was the cancer thing, too.
Penny Marshall
#90. I had seen even well-established marriages shatter under the strain of smaller things. And those that did not shatter, but were crippled by mistrust
Diana Gabaldon
#91. I think it's something that needs to be said - that there are interracial marriages out there, and the couples live happy lives, and there's nothing wrong with it.
Tia Mowry
#92. I took the fear of marriage from my parents' relationship, because I didn't want to end up in a relationship like that, whereas my brothers and sisters learnt a lesson from it and made sure they didn't carry it on into their own marriages.
John Mahoney
#93. As soon as you say 'I do,' you'll discover that marriage is like a car. Both of you might be sitting in the front seat, but only one of you is driving. And most marriages are more like a motorcycle than a car. Somebody has to sit in the back, and you have to yell just to be heard.
Wanda Sykes
#94. One way or the other , the case coming before a federal judge in Miami July 2 challenging Florida's 6-year-old constitutional ban on same-sex marriages could be the next shoe to drop.
Anonymous
#95. I don't believe that same-sex marriages would weaken heterosexual marriage. Marriage is not a scarce resource. I thought that conservatives worried about too few people choosing marriage, not too many.
Amy Davidson
#96. All couples have been told to schedule regular one-on-one time. 'Date night' is the default answer to most problems in modern marriages. And research backs this up.
Bruce Feiler
#98. Sexual excitability is increased and leads to hasty engagements, marriages by the newspaper, improper love-adventures, conspicuous behavior, fondness for dress, on the other hand to jealousy and matrimonial discord.
Emil Kraepelin
#99. Marriages are not normally made to avoid having children.
Rudolf Virchow
#100. Women have become so highly educated ... that nothing should surprise us nowadays, except happy marriages.
Oscar Wilde
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