Marriage Quotes

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In Europe we tend to see marital love as an eternity which encompasses hate and also indifference: when we promise to love we really mean that we promise to honour a contract. Americans, seeming to take marriage with not enough seriousness, are really taking love and sex with too much.

Anthony Burgess

When I went to college, as much as my parents emphasized academic achievement, they emphasized marriage even more. They told me that the most eligible women marry young to get a 'good man' before they are all taken.

Sheryl Sandberg

Let your ghost follow
The young men to the Pole, up Everest, to war: by
love, be shot.
For the uncreating chaos descends
And claims you in marriage: though a man, you were
ever a bride

Stephen Spender

I'm not running to bash George Bush. A lot of Americans really love him. They love what he represents, a man who's overcome adversity in his life from alcoholism and pulled his marriage back together and — and moved forward. But I'm running because I think this country must have better leadership in moving forward.

The most important thing about marriage is that the man must not let the woman feel downtrodden simply because she is a woman and he is a man.

Our activists will go around with a priest, a turmeric stub and a 'mangal sutra' on February 14. If we come across couples being together in public and expressing their love, we will take them to the nearest temple and conduct their marriage.

Pramod Muthalik

Marriage is supposed to do everything, like Duz, which is more than half its problem. It is said to save us, define us, give us purpose, keep us from loneliness, and incidentally balance our diet and wash our socks, and when it doesn't, we get divorced.

Marriage!... Why, it is like living in a thimble with a hippopotamus!

Phyllis Bottome

In the ages since Adam's marriage, it has been good for some men to be alone, and for some women also.

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like.

Somewhere along the way, without me even noticing, I grew up Alex. For once, I couldn't take advice from anyone around me about what I should or shouldn't do. I couldn't go running to mum and dad and I can't compare my marriage to anybody else's, we all follow our own rules.

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

William Congreve

A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.

It's not that marriage itself is bad; it's the people we marry who give it a bad name.

Marriage is a lottery in which all women are eager to take a chance.

In every marriage there are the elements of success, and in every one the makings of a perfectly justifiable divorce.

Kathleen Norris

As you become older, you become less judgmental and take offense less. But marriage is hard work; the illusion that you get married and live happily ever after is absolute rubbish.

On being praised for his performance in the play "The Dance of Death" about misery of marriage:

It wasn't difficult. There isn't a line that I haven't said to one of my three wives.

Laurence Olivier

A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.

Anthony Trollope

We would be more American on the day we permitted same-sex marriage than we were on the day before.

David Blankenhorn

Yes, throughout our marriage [with Gerhard Richter during 1982 - 1993], we influenced each other mutually. We didn't have a student-teacher kind of relationship.

I come to the point of using steel, and simply cannot. It's like the marriage proposal of a perfectly eligible man who just isn't loveable. It is wood I love.

The truth seems to be that monogamous marriage, mitigated in certain countries by divorce and in certain other by tolerance of infidelity, persists in our Western civilization as the solution which entails the least suffering for the greatest number of people.

College women are typically given to declaring for one or the other (in my day, for marriage; now, generally, for careers), and only later finding to their surprise that they must cope with both — while their men may be trying to figure out how to get out of doing both.