Marriage Quotes

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A revolutionary marriage... [is] one in which both partners have work at the center of their lives and must find a delicate balance that can support both together and each individually.

Carolyn Heilbrun

Yesterday my daughter said to me, 'My marriage is falling apart.' And now all she can do is watch it falling.

FYI: The Summer of Gay has been extended into the Year of the Queer. Another heads up: Mad Vow Disease, once limited to wholesome, unimpeachable gay couples earnestly seeking to take on the rights and responsibilities of marriage, has jumped the pen and crossed into the general population.

Lovers forget that after marriage and kids, it's no longer a 'relationship' - It's a family.

Siddharth Katragadda

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.

[…] it seems like people make the mistake of thinking love is about the bedroom. It's not. It's about the emergency room. Love and marriage is who will sit there and wait.

Stephen Tobolowsky

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

Love pleases more than marriage, for the reason that romance is more interesting than history.

Nicolas Chamfort

What made marriage so difficult back then was yet again that instigator of so many other sorts of heartbreak: the oversize brain.

Whether you want to speak to your wife is your own business, but for you to "let people know" that she violated her marriage vows will make you look like a cad. It is almost impossible to throw dirt on someone without getting a little on yourself.

Abigail Van Buren

Bad divorce?" Hardy asked, his gaze falling to my hands. I realized I was clutching my purse in a death grip. No, the divorce was great, I said. It was the marriage that sucked.

She says what holds their marriage together is that she feels too damn sorry for him to ask for a divorce.

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they can not be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Olive's private view is that life depends on what she thinks of as "big bursts" and "little bursts." Big bursts are things like marriage or children, intimacies that keep you afloat, but these big bursts hold dangerous, unseen currents. Which is why you need the little bursts as well: a friendly clerk at Bradlee's, let's say, or the waitress at Dunkin' Donuts who knows how you like your coffee. Tricky business, really.

Elizabeth Strout

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

If you want to make a marriage work, you gotta forget about the things that nine times outta ten are not that important.

Marriage has its unknown great men, as war has its Napoleons, poetry its Chéniers, and philosophy its Descartes.

Honoré de Balzac

I think, like a lot of people on this issue, I have really changed my thinking here to, 'I don't ever want to stand in front of anybody's happiness.' That's not my job, okay? If that word – 'marriage' – is really, really that important to you, I can go with it.

Ugh! How many stories about love, copulation, marriage and death already exist, not one of which tells the truth! How sick I am of well-constructed plots and brilliant writing!

The Marriage-bed proves the Grave of Love...

Margaret Cavendish

My lifestyle isn't conducive to marriage. It took four times because I guess I'm a slow learner. Maybe they didn't like my sense of humor.

My dream is chess played in every school in India. The Soviets would include a chessboard along with the bride's trousseau to ensure that the children born of that marriage knew the rules of chess.

Viswanathan Anand

Marriage was all defeat and victory, and worked better when women were the defeated ones since men apparently could not bear to be and had no philosophy for that condition.

People do not marry people, not real ones anyway; they marry what they think the person is; they marry illusions and images. The exciting adventure of marriage is finding out who the partner really is.

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