378 Marriage quotes

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

A good husband makes a good wife.

When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Marriage is not about age; it's about finding the right person.

If I get married, I want to be very married.

Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.

A marriage doesn't have to be perfect, but you can be perfect for each other.

Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise.

May these vows and this marriage be blessed.

When I'm weak, you can be strong; when I'm strong, you can be weak. That's what I believe marriage is.

A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.

The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

I support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us.

Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Nobody, man or woman, has ever wrecked a good marriage.

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

It's tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won't drink from my glass.

Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.

A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

My wife is my soul mate. I can't imagine being without her.

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

I haven't been faithful to my wife. Our marriage has been tainted with my infidelities. I was irresponsible.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers.

I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman.

Marriage equality is about more than just marriage. It's about something greater. It's about acceptance.

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

The great marriages are partnerships. It can't be a great marriage without being a partnership.

There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.

You can't have a happy family if you don't have a happy marriage.

They say marriage will change you but it didn't change me. Being in love changed me.

Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.

Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die.

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

I definitely have a happy marriage and family life.

A troubled marriage can be as hazardous to physical health as cigarette smoking.

Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.

Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit.

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

The biggest financial pitfall in life is divorce. And the biggest reason for divorce is marriage.

I love marriage. I think it's a wonderful institution and it's the most important decision you make.

Never stay in a bad marriage, and don't hang around with psycho coke fiends.

I love the concept of togetherness and the entwinement of marriage.

I don't understand what the big deal is with gay marriage. Get over it, people.

A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.

A key to keeping your husband is getting him to miss you. That keeps a marriage fresh.

For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end.

Only after I faced the unhappiness of my first marriage did I start on the path of personal growth.

Marriage changes everything.

Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.

Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking.

Obama is for same-sex marriage. If the president is saying that, then who am I to go the other way?

Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War.

I like marriage. The idea.

Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.

It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.

I had 53 years of happy marriage and two daughters. These were the best things that happened in my life.

I had a happy marriage and a nice wife. I accomplished everything you can. What more can you want?

It is my conviction that marriage is such a good idea, only God could have thought of it.

People say, 'What's the secret to a marriage?' There's no secret - I think you get lucky.

Any sex outside of the marriage bond between a man and a woman is violating God's law.

I was against gay marriage until I realized I didn't have to get one.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Gay marriage won't be more of an issue 25 years from now than interracial marriage is today.

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.

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

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.

Ultimately, my greatest achievement is maintaining my career while sustaining a happy marriage and kids.

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.

I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

Our Nation must defend the sanctity of marriage.

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

Marriage is about the most expensive way for the average man to get laundry done.

I'm not for gay marriage, but I'm not for discriminating against people.

Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

My marriage is on the rocks again, yeah, my wife just broke up with her boyfriend.

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?

I don't think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be.

Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.

In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

Sometimes divorce is better than marriage.

Marriage has made me a lot happier and I'm deeply in love with my wife, and I thank God for her every day.

There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.

People today expect too much from marriage. Getting married is really like taking on a big new job.

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.

I was a happy person before marriage. I'm definitely happier after marriage.

Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.

A sense of humor is great - it goes a long, long way in a marriage.

Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest.

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.

Marriage: A word which should be pronounced 'mirage'.

Marriage is a mystery, and part of it is just being kind to each other, not being selfish.

Marriage is a commitment for life. It is a permanent, lifelong relationship.

More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.

The Bible is clear - God's definition of marriage is between a man and a woman.

I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.

No person connected with me by blood or marriage will be appointed to office.

If traditional marriage is not the law of the land, the institution of the family will cease to exist.

When I get married, it'll be no secret.

We want our marriage to be a triumph, not a tragedy.

She's been married so many times she has rice marks on her face.

Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Gay marriage is going to happen. It must.

We live too long for one marriage.

It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.

I am a fan of marriage and a fan of being committed to the right person.

A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage, but an ex-wife is there for the rest of your life.

Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps.

A good marriage is different to a happy marriage.

I think marriage is a boring and fault-ridden contractual obligation.

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

When people get married young, you don't really understand the true definition of marriage.

Marriage is the most wonderful thing ever.

In marriage, compromise nurtures the relationship.

Marriage is the death of hope.

When you have a baby, love is automatic, when you get married, love is earned.

The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.

It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.

I don't know if I believe in marriage - I believe in love.

I have not supported same-sex marriage. I have supported civil partnerships and contractual relationships.

Every marriage is a mystery to me, even the one I'm in. So I'm no expert on it.

I've had an exciting time; I married for love and got a little money along with it.

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

I'm more afraid of marriage than death.

Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.

I only gave out my opinion that same sex marriage is against the law of God.

Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Marriage can be a magnificent lesson in becoming our best selves; that is true.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued.

I love the institution of marriage, and I love my marriage.

I believe in the institution of marriage, and I intend to keep trying till I get it right.

The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.

Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway.

A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.

Marriage can be viewed as the waiting room for death.

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

The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.

My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.

In all seriousness, I don't get people who need to make a proposal a bigger deal than marriage already is.

I'm a heathen when it comes to marriage.

I don't think my wife likes me very much, when I had a heart attack she wrote for an ambulance.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

Books and marriage go ill together.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.

Marriage is a great institution.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.

I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.

Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.

How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone.

Take this marriage thing seriously - it has to last all the way to the divorce.

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.

Here in Hollywood you can actually get a marriage license printed on an Etch-A-Sketch.

Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough.

I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

After marriage, the other man's wife looks more beautiful.

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

The sweet companionship of eternal marriage is one of the greatest blessings God has granted to His children.

Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.

The weaker partner in a marriage is the one who loves the most.

My marriage and my families come certainly before my career.

Marriage isn't a carnival ride.

You have to do the work in your marriage, but it has to be laid on a strong foundation of love.

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

I tell people marriage is a compromise, and so are renovations.

Traditional marriage is what should be sanctioned.

I think that sense of humor is important in marriage. A sense of humor gets people through marriage.

Marriage is hard work, period.

Marriage is such a mark of adulthood in my mind.

I'm for gay marriage, because I'm for gay divorce.

Nothing scares me about marriage.

What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many?

I'm an activist for gay marriage equality and children's rights. I'm the face of Share Our Strength.

Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Same sex marriage, it's not a big concern to me.

I'll say this: The media wasn't invited to my marriage, and they're definitely not invited into the divorce.

Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.

I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage.

Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.

All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.

Homosexual marriage is counterfeit marriage.

I found marriage somewhat stifling. I don't know that I am the kind of man who ought to be married.

The first condition of marriage between a man and a woman is that both must belong to each other totally.

I had only two offers of marriage in my life, and I refused both.

I don't see any reason for marriage when there is divorce.

Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.

I believe in gay marriage.

I am an activist and rapper from Afghanistan, and I use rap to speak out and help end child marriage.

Life changed a lot after marriage. I am not the same person as before.

I believe in traditional marriage.

If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.

Marriage Asian-style is practical, contractual and, to the western mind, deeply unromantic.

The seeds of marriage equality... were planted on MTV.

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

Marriage, laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.

You don't want your marriage to be sustainable. You want to be evolving, nurturing, learning.

If love means never having to say you're sorry, then marriage means always having to say everything twice.

We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.

In the future, I want a movie career, kids and a happy marriage.

The most important thing for a good marriage is to learn how to argue peaceably.

Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.

My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art.

My thoughts are that marriage is between a man and a woman.

Marriage is the hardest work you're ever going to do.

All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.

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

Love is often the fruit of marriage.

It's nice to know you have support. Last night I got a marriage proposal. I just laughed.

I love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific.

Sticking with a marriage. That's true grit, man.

I love marriage.

In a marriage, every fight is the same fight, over and over again, in different forms.

Husbands are like fires - they go out when they're left unattended.

To me marriage is for five or ten years.

Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Marriage was never my goal, because I've never been very traditional.

For me, personally, marriage is a man and a woman living together.

People might be surprised because I settled for an arranged marriage, but that's what's chosen for us.

If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books.

Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

It was a perfect marriage. She didn't want to and he couldn't.

Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.

Marriage is an institution, and you must be fully committed to it.

Marriage equality is not a choice. It is a legal right.

I believe that marriage should be between one man and one woman.

Well, you know, I just - I believe marriage should between a man and a woman.

I yearned for a long, happy marriage with one person.

She got the magazine on a Wednesday morning, and on Thursday announced our marriage was over.

Well, you know, the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

Marriages, like careers, need constant nurturing... the secret of having it all is loving it all.

Marriage is wonderful.

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.

One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.

Marriage can be expensive, and if I lose millions then it'll be the best millions I've spent.

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

I feel that whoever isn't feeling settled in their career won't think about their marriage.

Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.

Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.

Of course I love being in love - but it is marriage that really fulfills me. But not in every case.

I swear Kim Kardashian's first marriage lasted longer than some of my iPhone chargers.

I never even had a bachelorhood: I went straight from my parents' home to a marriage.

Sometimes I bust out and do things so permanent. Like tattoos and marriage.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Marriage is scary to me, man.

We are properly ready for marriage when we are strong enough to embrace a life of frustration.

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

To a shameful extent, the charm of marriage boils down to how unpleasant it is to be alone.

Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage.

Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth.

A marriage ends up being a business deal: no matter how long or short it is, somebody owes somebody money.

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.

Our marriage is strictly in name only. It has never been consummated.

It's important to show each other your marriage is a priority.

The more time you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes.

I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married.

The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

My father was very big on marriage.

He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.

I ran to my marriage, I was happily ready to take on marriage.

I think marriage is all about timing.

Have you ever heard of a good marriage growing in front of the cameras?

I am against marriage, and I don't give a fig for society.

I think marriage is a scary concept. It's a scary concept for anybody. I'm not sure where I sit with that.

Marriage can be tricky and challenging at times.

I like marriage. I feel very secure. It helps when you are in love with the person you are married to.

Good production is like a beautiful marriage. It makes a happy home.

Marriage is the tomb of love.

I believe that the dissolution of a marriage comes about by the breaking down of self-esteem.

Marriage, or any committed partnership, has become sacred to me, powerful and fragile all at the same time.

I definitely believe in marriage.

Is marriage for ever? I think you get married with the intention that it will be, but who knows?

It's so easy to grow apart; marriage takes work.

A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.

Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.

I married beneath me, all women do.

Protecting the institution of marriage safeguards, I believe, the American family.

Marriage has changed things. I have my own family now.

I think there's something unromantic about marriage. You're closing yourself off.

I think marriage is only necessary if you've got children. It's quite nice for them.

I would say that I wasn't so much afraid of marriage as afraid of divorce.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.

When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.

An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.

The secret of a good marriage is forgiving your partner for marrying you in the first place.

Marriage: love, honor, and negotiate.

One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.

Marriage is actually really terrifying. It doesn't work for many people.

Early marriage is most prevalent in communities suffering deep, chronic poverty.

I enjoy being single, but I loved being married.

Marriage is a financial contract; I have enough contracts already.

Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.

When I was being sold into marriage, it was hard to see a future for myself.

I like getting married, but I don't like being married.

Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.

Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.

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

Conventional wisdom tells us we'll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone.

I think infidelity is difficult, monogamy is difficult, and marriage is difficult.

The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it.

I made a very poor decision in my first marriage. I know God's forgiven me.

I wanted to marry a girl just like my mom.

I might be celibate, but I appreciate the wonder of the sacrament of marriage.

That's my prescription for a happy marriage - marry someone who doesn't do anything similar to what you do.

Marriage is an exercise in torture.

When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place.