Top 100 Quotes About Marriages
#1. The United States Administration for Children and Families (ACF) spends $46 billion per year operating 65 different social programs. If one goes down the list of these programs ... the need for each is either created or exacerbated by the breakup of families and marriages.
Wade Horn
#2. Lot's of marriages don't last as long as Queen have been together.
John Deacon
#3. Good bread and good butter go together. They are one of the perfect marriages in gastronomy, and they never fail to cheer me.
James Beard
#4. For some of us, watching a miniseries that lasts longer than most marriages is not easy.
Erma Bombeck
#5. Money is either the best or the worst area of communication in our marriages.
Larry Burkett
#6. Look at all the marriages that have been wonderfully successful where fellows finished their army service and came home to go to college on G.I. bills and their wives worked.
Marta Kristen
#7. People are more concerned about the economy then these ridiculous concerns as to gender inequity in society, as manifested in marriages, in the mental health system, and then in literature.
Kate Zambreno
#8. Lot of people wondering if John Kerry supports gay marriages. Here's a hint ... he gets $1,000 haircuts.
Craig Kilborn
#9. Prue hadn't really been in love with Fabian. Indeed, it was obvious that at times she found him both boring and irritating. But wasn't that what so many marriages were - finding a person boring and irritating and yet loving him? Who could imagine a man who was never boring, or irritating?
Barbara Pym
#10. Like wars, forest fires and bad marriages, really stupid laws are much easier to begin than they are to end.
Matt Taibbi
#11. Because from what I've seen of marriages and relationships, there aren't any rules. You deal with what comes, like anything else in life. There's no template. No freaking outline. And that's what makes relationships interesting, right? The element of surprise.
Kristin Walker
#12. The family is the first economy. If the family breaks down, well, government gets bigger because of the consequences of family breakdown. We see in the neighborhoods where there are no marriages and there are no two-parent families.
Rick Santorum
#13. I don't know how breeder marriages ever work, since the wife never seems to understand.
Andrea Speed
#14. When I look back on my marriages, or the breakups, sure I know the pain I went through, but that's part of life and it has its own value.
Rita Hayworth
#15. It takes a long time to really be married. One marries many times at many levels within that marriage. If you have more marriages than you have divorces within the marriage, you're lucky and you stick it out.
Ruby Dee
#16. It's not that I think weddings - or marriages - are letdowns. It's just that I want to see my wedding as one awesome achievement on a continuum of achievements, all of which were, in their way, just as beautiful and profound for having led me to the current one.
Jessi Klein
#17. For a romantic comedy to be three hours long, that's longer than most marriages.
David Fincher
#18. Her marriage to Leonce Pontellier was purely an accident, in this respect resembling many other marriages which masquerade as the decrees of Fate.
Kate Chopin
#19. trusting someone and the doubt that they'll be true is what kills marriages. 'Give in to love, or live in fear.
Toni Aleo
#20. But working women with retired husbands tend to be more dissatisfied with their marriages than any other type of wife.39
Stephanie Coontz
#21. I don't think there is such a definition of a perfect family, but I do think that our marriages are in crisis. Our families are in crisis. And I think the African-American family is at one of the worst stages it's been at in a very long time in this country. Fatherlessness is rampant.
Leah Ward Sears
#22. Marriages are like pianos. They go in and out of tune.
Sarah Waters
#23. All careers go up and down like friendships, like marriages, like anything else, and you can't bat a thousand all the time.
Julie Andrews
#24. The reason I had unfaithfulness in one of my marriages is because I was too patriotic.
Chris Matthews
#25. As soon as we confront concrete marriages with other foreign images-such as well-being, happiness, a home for children-marriage appears to be senseless, withered, moribund, and kept alive largely by a great apparatus of psychologists and marriage counselors. Marriage is dead. Long live marriage!
Adolf Guggenbhuhl-Craig
#26. I admire people's marriages, and I think it's a wonderful thing to have, but I don't think it's the only way to live. I think there are many ways to live and many ways to establish intimate support in your life that can be from family or friends or great roommates that you like.
Linda Ronstadt
#27. There are some people in show business who are proud of the number of marriages they've had.
Gerry Anderson
#28. It's simply not true that Donald Trump has no experience in foreign affairs. Hell, two of his foreign affairs resulted in marriages!
Michael R. Burch
#29. I don't think marriages break up because of what you do to each other. They break up because of what you must become in order to stay in them.
Carol Grace
#30. I do not see the E.E.C. [European Economic Community] as a great love affair. It's more like nine middle aged couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope.
Kenneth Tynan
#31. Growing marriages aren't determined by how much you have in common but by how graciously you deal with your differences.
Rick Warren
#32. Other people's marriages are a perpetual source of amazement.
Patrick O'Brian
#33. Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.
Ian Fleming
#34. Marriages may come and go, but the game must go on.
Felix Unger
#35. Marriages performed within,' read the sign next to the coffeehouse door, underneath in small letters a verse that combined warning with a sales pitch: 'When lawless lust hath conceived it bringeth forth sin.
Toni Morrison
#36. Marriages are buffeted by more important things, like money and sex and children and jobs and in-laws, in constantly changing combinations.
Beth Pattillo
#37. that sometimes marriages are like friendships that get tested, and people have to work through things.
R.J. Palacio
#38. As I see it, out of a hundred marriages ninety-nine marriages are just licensed prostitution. They are not marriages. A marriage is only a real marriage when it grows out of love. Legal, illegal, does not matter. The real thing that matters is love.
Rajneesh
#39. Bad marriages don't cause infidelity; infidelity causes bad marriages.
Frank Pittman
#40. Chumps always make the best husbands. When you marry, Sally, grab a chump. Tap his head first, and if it rings solid, don't hesitate. All the unhappy marriages come from husbands having brains. What good are brains to a man? They only unsettle him.
P.G. Wodehouse
#42. The marriages come and go but your friendships stay, which is the opposite of what it used to be, so that there will be people in our lives for 30 years and often it is not your husband, it's your women friends, male friends with whom you come of age.
Wendy Wasserstein
#43. I think that political marriages are subject to more strain than most precisely because of the nature of politics.
Tony Abbott
#44. Many marriages falter, it seems to me, not because the couples are out of love, but because they have never been friends as much as lovers. They may love each other, in a vaporously romantic way, but they do not really like each other as individual personalities.
Sydney J. Harris
#45. I go to church too, y'all. And I've heard it, too. And I want to say to all of our faith leaders out there that I understand that probably in my Baptist church in Maryland, it is not likely that there will be performed - in my church - gay marriages.
Donna Edwards
#46. I always thought that what Rajima did with those cast-off peels was a metaphor for how she dealt with her arranged marriage. She transformed those peels, with palm sugar for sweetness and tamarind for tang, into something precious.
Padma Lakshmi
#47. Satan's first appearance in the Bible included an attack on a marriage - trying to divide Adam and Eve. His tactics have not changed. He wants our marriages to flounder and fail, because he knows that few things will discourage us more.
Billy Graham
#48. I have several friends that have outlasted both of my marriages that are raising wonderful children together that have been together in gay unions for over 25 years. So they're doing a better job than I am!
Vanessa L. Williams
#49. And pray where in earth or heaven are there prudent marriages? Might as well talk about prudent suicides.
G.K. Chesterton
#50. If there was more courting in marriage, there'd be fewer marriages in court. Date your mate. Today.
Rick Warren
#51. A man imagines a happy marriage as a marriage of love; even if he makes fun of marriages that are without love, or feels sorry for lovers who are without marriage.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#52. It may be our idealization of interpersonal relationships in the West that causes marriage, supposedly the most intimate tie, to be so unstable. If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.
Anthony Storr
#53. the women began traveling to remote villages, distributing articles that argued not just against "honor" killings but also against forced marriages and the pernicious way gossip is used in small communities to control the behavior of women and girls.
Geraldine Brooks
#54. All marriages are sacred, but not all are safe.
Rob Jackson
#55. She did not date. She did not have time for men. Men were never, ever worth a great amount of energy. She was the kind of woman that looked down on what she called 'settlers', women who chose love and fleeting passion that turned to dull, lifeless marriages over a career and independence.
Mandy Nachampassack-Maloney
#56. It took me a long time to be convinced that marriage was right for me because I've come from a long line of broken marriages. My parents divorced, and I had two broken marriages myself.
Sylvester Stallone
#57. It is a sad fact that 50 percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. But hey, the other half end in death. You could be one of the lucky ones!
Richard Jeni
#58. Sugar Ray Leonard's retirements last about as long as Elizabeth Taylor's marriages.
Bob Arum
#59. Likings arise when one has no earthly reason for liking - the most wildly improbable marriages and uncommon friendship.
Patrick O'Brian
#60. Nothing is more inspiring in today's world of easily dissolved marriages than to observe a husband and wife quietly appreciating and enjoying each other's friendship year in and year out as they experience together the blessings and trials of mortality.
Marlin K. Jensen
#61. After a while in marriage, it doesn't work anymore. There is something missing, there is something wrong. There are few marriages that stay alive forever. We like something, and after a while, we hate what we used to love.
Monica Bellucci
#62. People search the world over looking for someone to love them, when they should be searching for someone to love.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#63. Europeans are dying out. Don't you understand that? And same-sex marriages don't produce children. Do you want to survive by drawing migrants? But society cannot adapt so many migrants.
Vladimir Putin
#64. I love luxury, I love the high life, and I have to foot the bills - I have received practically nothing from my marriages and relationships.
Britt Ekland
#65. Marriages come and go, but divorce is forever.
Nora Ephron
#66. It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#67. Obviously, marriage is not a synonym for morality. But stable marriages and families do encourage moral behavior.
Gary Bauer
#68. She tells me about dreams. She says my dreams are helium and balloons, and I've made the mistake of letting go a few to many times, but I still got this one. Tied around my finger like a wedding ring because even though I don't believe in marriages, I'm gonna bring this one home.
Shane Koyczan
#69. I don't engage in brainwashing, I don't dictate forms of lifestyle, I don't perform mass marriages or even singular marriages. I don't tell people what to believe.
Frederick Lenz
#70. Some relationships are based on lies
Some marriages weren't built to last
Tawana Beecham
#71. This going into Europe will not turn out to be the thrilling mutual exchange supposed. It is more like nine middle-aged couples with failing marriages meeting in a darkened bedroom in a Brussels hotel for a group grope.
E.P. Thompson
#72. his theory that all of the world's problems were caused by notions of ethnic virtue and that if marriages were limited to interracial lovers there would be peace on earth. There
Jim Harrison
#73. Thanks to arranged marriages: There are countless women who have never been their husband's girlfriend.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#74. When a husband and wife both are employed full-time, the mother does 40 percent more child care and about 30 percent more housework than the father.1 A 2009 survey found that only 9 percent of people in dual-earner marriages said that they shared housework, child care, and breadwinning evenly.
Sheryl Sandberg
#75. Marriages go through hard times. Sometimes you have to get in there and fight for your love. That's the only way for it to get better.
Kristin Hannah
#76. I think that with marriages, people have to understand that you have to look at your marriage and understand what is needed in your marriage - not what people think your marriage should be or what people want your marriage to be.
Jada Pinkett Smith
#77. Marriages had different meanings back then than they do now, they were used to cement agreements between families, business deals and things like that. The idea of marriages being arranged for love is some sort of modern idea, really.
Jared Harris
#78. Arranged marriages are big business in the U.K. Second- and third-generation immigrant families, with no extended family structure, limited networks and religious restrictions on acceptable ways to meet future spouses, are turning to external matchmakers for help.
Jemima Khan
#79. Life may unfold chronologically for the body and for bureaucracies that keep track of such things as births, marriages, deaths, visas, tax returns, expulsions, and identity cards, but memory does not play this game in quite the same way, always manages to confound the desire for tidiness.
Ariel Dorfman
#80. Is there an expiration date on marriages nowadays?
... For some people, yes.
Colleen Hoover
#81. The blessing is that my kids have a lot of strong men and strong marriages around them, so I feel like they are getting what they need as far as role modeling. So I don't feel the pressure for them.
Taya Kyle
#82. Biographies are a little like marriages: You only have room in your life for one or two.
Phyllis Rose
#83. In love marriages, you at least know your partner. A known devil is better than an unknown one!
Mona Singh
#84. There is silence and then the familiar smack of Beatrice Muriel's palm against her forehead. "A love marriage," she says. In her opinion, love marriages border on the indecent. They signify a breakdown of propriety, a giving in to the base instincts exhibited by the lower castes and foreigners.
Nayomi Munaweera
#85. I'm doing pretty well. If you don't get married, you can't get divorced. Why couldn't we learn from the devastatingly low percentage of successful marriages that our last generation went through?
Adam Levine
#86. I don't believe in hasty marriages.
Anna Held
#87. When you work as actors in this business, you spend a lot of time apart. That's why a lot of marriages fail. It's not because of Hollywood, it's because you don't spend time together.
Boris Kodjoe
#88. A defeatist attitude kills almost as many marriages as do affairs.
Gary L. Thomas
#89. Do the bishops seriously imagine that legalising gay marriage will result in thousands of parties to heterosexual marriages suddenly deciding to get divorced so they can marry a person of the same sex?
Malcolm Turnbull
#90. Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
John Lyly
#91. The most successful marriages were always based on both partners feeling that they had done rather well for themselves.
P.D. James
#92. I support gay unions. I think the government should get out of the marriage business completely - leave marriages to the churches. And grant civil unions to gay couples, grant civil unions to a man and woman.
Gary Johnson
#93. He felt her hand curl in the material of his shirt, and it was a glorious goddamn feeling. So if presented with an unknown threat, she would consider him the lesser of the two evils. Right. He could work with that. Some marriages had been founded on less, and he merely wanted to shag her senseless.
Tessa Bailey
#94. I was never against marriage per se. Before feminism, I didn't think you had any choice. In fact, for a long time I always assumed I would get married. I just didn't see any marriages I wanted to emulate, so I kept putting it off.
Gloria Steinem
#95. I do believe in soulmates and happy/successful marriages. No marriage can be happy 24x7 for 365 days. Both partners have to make the relationship work, is what I believe in.
Kajol
#96. France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are 'made in America.'
Helen Rowland
#97. Sham marriages have been widespread; people have been allowed to settle in Britain without being able to speak English; and there have not been rules in place to stop migrants becoming a burden on the taxpayer. We are changing all of that.
Theresa May
#98. I am changing the notion that actresses can't have happy marriages
Mercy Johnson
#99. Marriages struggle because we've set our marriages up to fail by thinking that this person is going to complete me when they were never created to do that.
Mark Hall
#100. The southern colonists were not preoccupied with their own historical significance and mostly did not bother even to make the records of births, marriages, and deaths that they required of themselves by law. Nor did they write accounts of what they were up to for the benefit of posterity.
Edmund Morgan
