Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.
~By Robert Graves ~
Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.
~By Christopher Lasch ~
All marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.
~By Shelley Winters ~
It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.
~By David Byrne ~
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 ~
I refused David Letterman's proposal of marriage for obvious reasons, but thanks for asking.
~By Teri Garr ~
It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.
~By Herbert Samuel ~
When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity.
~By Robert Anton Wilson ~
Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
~By George Jessel ~
Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
~By George Eliot ~
Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit.
~By Margaret Cavendish ~
The weaker partner in a marriage is the one who loves the most.
~By Eleanora Duse ~
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
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 ~
First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment.
~By Maximilian Schell ~
Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.
~By Joseph Addison ~
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
It's very trying on a marriage when you're doing a one hour show, week after week after week. You don't have enough time for people that maybe you should have top priority.
~By Gavin MacLeod ~
If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books.
~By Alan King ~
Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest.
~By Yoko Ono ~
Books and marriage go ill together.
~By Moliere ~
I think the Mother is gradually revealing itself to me and taking over. But it is not the Mother alone. It is the Mother and the Father, the male and the female, sort of gradually having their marriage.
~By Bede Griffiths ~
Marriage has been defined by every legislature that has ever sat in the United States from every State, now 50 States, the same way, but now we have unelected judges altering and changing that fundamental institution.
~By Jeff Sessions ~
I don't want marriage. You know why? Because I did that. I did it for 32 years.
~By Lynn Redgrave ~
One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.
~By Judith Viorst ~
In Hollywood, all marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes the problems.
~By Shelley Winters ~
If someone talks about union, fidelity, a monogamous relationship, love, blessing; I would say it sounds like marriage to me. And blessing, you see, I think is undermining our sacrament of marriage.
~By George Carey ~
Since the dawn of time, traditional marriage - the union between one man and one woman - has been the building block of civilization, and at no point in our nation's history has that foundation been under more severe attack than now.
~By Jim DeMint ~
Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
~By Rita Rudner ~
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 ~
Defining marriage is a power that should be left to the states. Moreover, no state should be forced to recognize a marriage that is not within its own laws, Constitution, and legal precedents.
~By John Sununu ~
And my marriage was perfect when I wasn't famous.
~By Damon Wayans ~
We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise.
~By Raquel Welch ~
Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.
~By Alan King ~
Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.
~By Samuel Richardson ~
My marriage to my husband, Bart Conner in 1996 is my proudest personal moment.
~By Nadia Comaneci ~
Traditional marriage between a man and a woman has been a cornerstone of our society for generations. If we are going to change that, it ought to be done by the will of the people.
~By Steve Chabot ~
When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
~By Francois Rabelais ~
The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
~By Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~
Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.
~By Bette Davis ~
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 ~
Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.
~By Jean de la Bruyere ~
In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
~By Robert Louis Stevenson ~
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 ~
Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.
~By P. J. O'Rourke ~
But I will agree that I think that things happen with people in relationships, that you might have been able to enjoy Morocco, say, if you weren't getting out of a bad marriage. You know what I mean?
~By Robert Downey, Jr. ~
Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
I didn't know that President Bush would endorse a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.
~By Mary Cheney ~
I don't believe in hasty marriages.
~By Anna Held ~
I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself; you want to try even harder to make it work.
~By Princess Diana ~
No person connected with me by blood or marriage will be appointed to office.
~By Rutherford B. Hayes ~
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 ~
Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
Writing and singing does give me some kind of release from the demons of my past, it is a therapy of sorts, but to be honest, my marriage played a more important role in the acceptance of myself than performance has ever done.
~By Michelle Shocked ~
Marriages are under strain today in terms of economics. There are social cross-currents. We see failed marriages. But it is not under attack by our gay and lesbian citizens.
~By Earl Blumenauer ~
Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking.
~By Marvin Gaye ~
I don't know nothing about no marriages or nothing. I ain't even never been to a wedding.
~By Mike Epps ~
I believe I went through a divorce. My relationship with Ellen is no less significant as a marriage than my relationship to Coley.
~By Anne Heche ~
Marriage is the tomb of love.
~By Giacomo Casanova ~
My own personal, moral, spiritual, religious, etc. beliefs don't oppose same-gender marriage.
~By Ed Case ~
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
~By Mignon McLaughlin ~
The mark of a good marriage is partnership and continuing to feel inspired by your spouse. I had that with Tao. But the end is not necessarily the tragedy. Staying in a relationship that is no longer working is the tragedy. Living unhappily - that's the tragedy.
~By Olivia Wilde ~
The activists will not stop in trying to impose their extreme views on the rest of us, and they have now plotted out a state-by-state strategy to increase the number of judicial decisions redefining marriage without the voice of the people being heard.
~By Jim Bunning ~
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
~By Jane Austen ~
Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.
~By Pearl S. Buck ~
Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
~By Randy Neugebauer ~
You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
~By Robert Louis Stevenson ~
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.
~By Cynthia Nelms ~
It devastates me now that I have been reduced to a Hollywood statistic - another joke marriage.
~By Sophia Bush ~
A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
~By Queen Victoria ~
Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.
~By Jeanette Winterson ~
To me marriage is for five or ten years.
~By Cher ~
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 ~
I've exchanged messages and photos of an explicit nature with about six women over the last three years. For the most part, these communications took place before my marriage, though some have sadly took place after. To be clear, I have never met any of these women or had physical relationships at any time.
~By Anthony Weiner ~
I tried marriage. I'm 0 for 3 with the marriage thing. So, being a ballplayer - I believe in numbers. I'm not going 0 for 4. I'm not wearing a golden sombrero.
~By Charlie Sheen ~
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
~By Voltaire ~
I'm looking forward to talking to Bill Parcells, too, and to seeing how that marriage with Jerry Jones goes.
~By Lisa Guerrero ~
I find it disturbing that the media keeps referring to my marriage, since I got divorced in 1979. But the media never wants to let me forget.
~By Bianca Jagger ~
I think marriage and athletes is a bad combination.
~By Dennis Rodman ~
They make Spy Kids, they make Scream, they make A Scary Movie. This doesn't do that, so it could be a very bad marriage. I'm trying to keep this potential nightmare quiet because we're just finishing editing.
~By Terry Gilliam ~
If it's not some daring, dangerous affair, it's just not interesting, or so it seems. So, here you have two people - a famous American iconic couple - who actually like each other sexually, in marriage. Imagine.
~By Shelley Long ~
Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.
~By Alphonse Karr ~
Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career.
~By Sam Ewing ~
There was a time in the marriage when I could no longer look at myself in a mirror, couldn't feel I was a nice person. A bad relationship can do that, can make you doubt everything good you ever felt about yourself.
~By Dionne Warwick ~
My parents have a wonderful marriage, for many years. But I can't commit myself for such a long time.
~By Kim Wilde ~
I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage.
~By Maria Callas ~
To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.
~By Ogden Nash ~
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 ~
It was not a healthy marriage for long time. It was never about another man, it was about what my and Dennis's relationship could not sustain.
~By Meg Ryan ~
Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
~By Gabriel Garcia Marquez ~
I'm not eager to jump into marriage again. I'm in the corner right now, wearing my dunce cap. That area is obviously a nightmare.
~By Lisa Marie Presley ~
When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.
~By Henry Fielding ~
My marriage? Up to now everything's okay. But it's a real marriage - imperfect and very difficult. It's all about people evolving somewhat simultaneously through their lives. I think we've emotionally evolved.
~By Jamie Lee Curtis ~
I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.
~By Vera Brittain ~
Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what's going on in another person's marriage.
~By Mary Wesley ~
The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
~By Gabriel Garcia Marquez ~
All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.
~By Ann Landers ~
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
Protecting the institution of marriage safeguards, I believe, the American family.
~By John Boehner ~
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