Marriage Quotes

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

Marriage is the waste-paper basket of the emotions.

Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield

The purpose of love, sex, and marriage is the production and raising of children. But look about you: Most people have no business having children. They are unqualified, either genetically or culturally or both, to reproduce such sorry specimens as themselves. Of all our privileges, the license to breed is the one most grossly abused.

Marriage... is a damnably serious business, particularly around Boston.

John P. Marquand

A person's character is what it is. It's a little like a marriage - only without the option of divorce. You can work on it and try to make it better, but basically you have to take the bitter with the sweet.

Hendrik Hertzberg

In a debate on gay marriage, the opponent said Next thing you'll be marrying horses! Jeff responded, Well, at least I'd be in a stable relationship!

Jeffrey Montgomery

I have often thought had there been somebody like me around, something might have been able to be done. I also think I don't see how I could have done what I've done in the world had I been married. And when I decided-because I've been on the verge of marriage many times-I said no, because if I wanted to roam the globe like I did, it wouldn't be fair. It wouldn't be fair to me, it wouldn't be fair to the people. At the point, I really feel it was a kind of destiny because I've been able to get to places. There are some people in the world who have other jobs to do.

If we're gay, of course, marriage has been cordoned off with razor wire by sanctimonious morons — so that if we find somebody we want to live with and care for until death do us part, things are complicated right from the start.

Susan Jane Gilman

This is an earthquake issue. This will change our state forever. Because the immediate consequence, if gay marriage goes through, is that K-12 little children will be forced to learn that homosexuality is normal, natural and perhaps they should try it.

Michele Bachmann

You ought to be ashamed of yourself, running around, not married, staying out all night. Ashamed!" "Ashamed!" my grandmother echoed. Good to know they still agreed on things after forty-three years of marriage.

The funeral and the marriage, now, alas!
We know not which is sadder to recall.

Ages of experience have taught us that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society. Government, by recognizing and protecting marriage, serves the interests of all.

The panel put targets, for example, on nutrition, education, ending preventable child deaths, encouraging birth registration, putting an end to violence against girls, and child marriage—all of which, if enacted, will improve the lives of billions of children throughout the world.

Tawakkol Karman

The most difficult year of marriage is the one you're in.

Franklin P. Jones

That certain women were ready to sell themselves caused no excessive disgust in Isabelle. It was inevitable that a number of both men and women should compromise the institution of marriage by marrying for money, and once that happened there could be no question of impressing on the toughly logical female mind the unique vileness of prostitution. She had sometimes wondered, too, whether the contempt men felt for women who market their favors did not in part proceed from from the sense of grievance eternally felt by buyers against vendors.

Marriage isn't a 50-50 proposition very often. It's more like 100-0 one moment and 0-100 the next.

Billie Jean King

All which is good and commendable, now existing, would continue to exist if all marriage laws were repealed to-morrow... I have an inalienable, constitutional, and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or as short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please...

Victoria Woodhull

And she did not miss his presence so much as his voice on the phone. Even being lied to constantly, though hardly like love, was sustained attention; he must care about her to fabricate so elaborately and over such a long stretch of time. His deceit was a form of tribute to the importance of their marriage.

We've been married for twenty-two years. And I have learned a long time ago that the only two people who count in any marriage are the two who are in it.

Hillary Clinton

No, there are three people in a marriage, there's the woman, there's the man, and there's what I call the third person, the most important, the person who is composed of the man and woman together.

Marriage and hanging go by destiny; matches are made in heaven.

The worst of marriage is that it makes a woman believe that all other men are just as easy to fool.

If you want to be free to serve Jesus, there's no question—stay single. Marriage takes a lot of time. But if you want to become more like Jesus, I can't imagine any better thing to do than to get married. Being married forces you to face some character issues you'd never have to face otherwise.

Gary Thomas (author)

I will always stand firm to protect the sanctity of marriage. I believe it is important to work with people to find common ground on difficult issues.

Marriage often unites for life two people who scarcely know each other.

Honoré de Balzac