Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.
~By Ogden Nash ~
Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.
~By Nicolas Chamfort ~
In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.
~By Rita Rudner ~
Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
~By Henry B. Adams ~
Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there.
~By Paul Getty ~
In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.
~By Enid Bagnold ~
The weaker partner in a marriage is the one who loves the most.
~By Eleanora Duse ~
Studies have consistently shown that financial hardship is the biggest obstacle to heterosexual marriage, yet the Republican leadership has done precious little to help address the financial hardship faced by American families.
~By Kendrick Meek ~
If you cannot work on the marriage or the women is a moron, staying married and cheating makes the most sense because divorce is disruptive to the family life and your bank account.
~By Al Goldstein ~
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.
~By Jennifer Garner ~
French novels generally treat of the relations of women to the world and to lovers, after marriage; consequently there is a great deal in French novels about adultery, about improper relations between the sexes, about many things which the English public would not allow.
~By Lafcadio Hearn ~
Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so much attention that a husband and wife, concentrating on their children, fail to notice each other's faults.
~By Richard Armour ~
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
~By John Lyly ~
The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.
~By Henny Youngman ~
My parents did not have a perfect marriage. It was pretty good, but it was not perfect. My marriage is not perfect. My wife is, but I happen to be imperfect. However, that does not discount the fact that the definition of marriage must be defended and protected.
~By Stockwell Day ~
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.
~By Leah Ward Sears ~
Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.
~By Samuel Richardson ~
A marriage license should not be viewed as a license for a husband to forcibly rape his wife with impunity.
~By Sol Wachtler ~
My mother, brave woman, lost her whole family when she decided to marry a black man in the '60s. When the marriage fell apart, she had to come back to her family.
~By Lisa Bonet ~
The very idea of marriage is basic to recognition as equals in our society; any status short of that is inferior, unjust, and unconstitutional.
~By Ted Olson ~
A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage, but an ex-wife is there for the rest of your life.
~By Jim Samuels ~
Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.
~By Andrea Dworkin ~
I went through a long period of time in that marriage when I didn't believe anything was my fault. I had to face what my part was, and only because of that difficult work was I able to trust a man again.
~By Connie Sellecca ~
Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.
~By Phyllis McGinley ~
Now I'm a wife and a mother of two. It's a really different role. I always referred to No Doubt as a marriage, because that's what it's like to be together for so long and go through what we've been through. I can't really have that relationship with them anymore.
~By Gwen Stefani ~
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.
~By Alain de Botton ~
I ran to my marriage, I was happily ready to take on marriage.
~By Mark Ruffalo ~
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
~By Mae West ~
Marriage, laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.
~By Dora Russell ~
There was no religious ceremony connected with marriage among us, while on the other hand the relation between man and woman was regarded as in itself mysterious and holy.
~By Charles Eastman ~
I was looking very much for a career. My second marriage to Stan Herman had ended, and I wanted very much to be independent, not take alimony from him, be on my own, do the right thing.
~By Linda Evans ~
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
I understand why marriages break up over golf. I can't even talk about my own handicap because it's too upsetting.
~By Shia LaBeouf ~
The United States Supreme Court has repeatedly held that marriage is one of the most fundamental rights that we have as Americans under our Constitution.
~By Ted Olson ~
Men act out like they're horrified by marriage, but when they find the woman of their dreams, they love it.
~By Rachel Hunter ~
We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.
~By Robin Morgan ~
Marriage is a wonderful thing.
~By Patrick McGoohan ~
She worded it a bit strongly, but I do find myself more and more struck by the differences between the sexes. To put it another way: All marriages are mixed marriages.
~By Anne Tyler ~
And that is why marriage and family law has emphasized the importance of marriage as the foundation of family, addressing the needs of children in the most positive way.
~By John Boehner ~
The president strongly believes that marriage in this country ought to be between a man and a woman. He also believes it is something that ought to be decided by the people. He doesn't believe that judges ought to impose their will on the people.
~By Ken Mehlman ~
The truth is you can have a great marriage, but there are still no guarantees.
~By Demi Moore ~
There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.
~By Norman Mailer ~
My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started.
~By Andrew Sullivan ~
Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.
~By J. B. Priestley ~
I've always believed the two best anti-poverty programs are work and marriage.
~By James Talent ~
The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we have seen, is forbidden him.
~By Gerrit Smith ~
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.
~By Martin Luther ~
In the 1960s we were fighting to be recognized as equals in the marketplace, in marriage, in education and on the playing field. It was a very exciting, rebellious time.
~By Marlo Thomas ~
Let me first state that I believe that marriage is a sacred union between one man and one woman.
~By Judy Biggert ~
Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?
~By Ted Olson ~
During last night's debate, John Kerry and John Edwards were so friendly to each other some political experts think that they may end up running together. In fact Kerry and Edwards were so friendly, President Bush accused them of planning a gay marriage.
~By Conan O'Brien ~
After a few years of marriage a man can look right at a woman without seeing her and a woman can see right through a man without looking at him.
~By Helen Rowland ~
There are powerful emotions that bring two people together in wonderful harmony in a marriage. Satan knows this, and would tempt you to try these emotions outside of marriage. Do not stir emotions meant to be used only in marriage.
~By Richard G. Scott ~
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.
~By Simone Signoret ~
Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.
~By Hesiod ~
I feel strongly for gay marriage to be accepted.
~By Bernadette Peters ~
Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.
~By Elsa Maxwell ~
All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.
~By Raymond Hull ~
When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.
~By Maggie Gallagher ~
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.
~By Jack Nicholson ~
I also think it was important for me and Freddie to be able to have a lot of time to share our lives at the beginning of our marriage rather than my coming home at 9 or 10 at night from the set. Things have really worked out for the best for both of us.
~By Sarah Michelle Gellar ~
I don't know what it takes to make marriage work, but I'm going to keep trying until I get it right. I haven't given up on love or marriage.
~By Stephanie Mills ~
Never ever discount the idea of marriage. Sure, someone might tell you that marriage is just a piece of paper. Well, so is money, and what's more life-affirming than cold, hard cash?
~By Dennis Miller ~
Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty.
~By Hubert H. Humphrey ~
Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
~By Gabriel Garcia Marquez ~
My marriage had been impulsive. That marriage should have been short-lived instead of the 23 years it spanned.
~By Joseph Barbera ~
Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.
~By Jeremy Taylor ~
Marriage has just never interested me.
~By Jacqueline Bisset ~
One of the biggest issues that we face is that we have people who have their own particular concerns, whether it's on abortion, birth control, divorce and remarriage, civil rights or social justice.
~By William P. Leahy ~
It's not someone else's responsibility to honor my marriage. It's my responsibility.
~By David Duchovny ~
Content and technology are strange bed fellows. We are joined together. Sometimes we misunderstand each other. But isn't that after all the definition of marriage?
~By Howard Stringer ~
Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle.
~By Edmond About ~
Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit.
~By Seamus Heaney ~
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.
~By Sadie Frost ~
France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are "made in America."
~By Helen Rowland ~
I didn't know that President Bush would endorse a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.
~By Mary Cheney ~
I firmly believe in marriage. It's a real important decision that takes a lot of dedication and time. If you're thinking about divorce. You shouldn't get married.
~By Seth Green ~
The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth, and one of the shortest lived.
~By Bernard De Voto ~
Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.
~By John Updike ~
Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.
~By John D. MacDonald ~
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.
~By Mark Ruffalo ~
I'd like to see marriage count again among African-Americans and not just in the society in general.
~By Leah Ward Sears ~
I know there are a lot of readers that think I've got a very crappy marriage just because of the things going on with Rick and Lori but there's really nothing that's been like a mirror. I'm just making this stuff up.
~By Robert Kirkman ~
Marriage is too interesting an experiment to be tried only once.
~By Eva Gabor ~
Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.
~By Edgar Watson Howe ~
I wasn't looking for another marriage. I had been married before. He is a nice man - a geologist, an Ernest Hemingway type. But Paul and I married because of convention.
~By Linda McCartney ~
More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.
~By Doug Larson ~
It was a perfect marriage. She didn't want to and he couldn't.
~By Spike Milligan ~
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
Our marriage is between us. If we decide to continue being together or not, it's our business.
~By Gwyneth Paltrow ~
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it.
~By Morton Hunt ~
Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.
~By Robert Graves ~
The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day, but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.
~By Barbara de Angelis ~
Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.
~By Bill Cosby ~
My marriage to my husband, Bart Conner in 1996 is my proudest personal moment.
~By Nadia Comaneci ~
It had not occurred to me that marriage requires the same effort as a career. And unlike a career, marriage requires a joint effort.
~By Jessica Savitch ~
Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what's going on in another person's marriage.
~By Mary Wesley ~
In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.
~By Iris Murdoch ~
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