Marriage Quotes

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Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

Marriage is long enough to have plenty of room for time behind it.

William Faulkner

Such an act
That blurs the grace and blush of modesty;
Calls virtue hypocrite; takes off the rose
From the fair forehead of an innocent love,
And sets a blister there; makes marriage vows
As false as dicers' oaths.

William Shakespeare

In marriage the great thing was love, and that with love one would always be happy, for happiness rests only on oneself.

Marriage is the strictest tie of perpetual friendship, and there can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity; and he must expect to be wretched, who pays to beauty, riches, or politeness that regard which only virtue and piety can claim.

The part of my life I think I'm most disappointed in is that I have not had the great marriage. And I would have thought that would have happened, because I came from a home—you know, it's not like some of my friends, they get divorced, but their parents were divorced twice or three times. I came from a home where marriage was just incredible. I mean, my parents truly loved each other.

The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage.

George Bernard Shaw

I was reminded that it is my obligation not only as an elected official in a pluralistic society, but also as a Christian, to remain open to the possibility that my unwillingness to support gay marriage is misguided.

Loveless marriages are horrible. But there is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage. A marriage in which there is love, but on one side only; faith, but on one side only; devotion, but on one side only, and in which of the two hearts one is sure to be broken.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

George Bernard Shaw

So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball.

Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?

George Bernard Shaw

Marriage is an extraordinary thing — and I doubt if any outsider — even a child of the marriage — has the right to judge.

Agatha Christie

The fight against syphilis demands a fight against prostitution, against prejudices, old habits, against previous conceptions, general views among them not least the false prudery of certain circles. The first prerequisite for even the moral right to combat these things is the facilitation of earlier marriage for the coming generation.

We do not marry for ourselves, whatever we say; we marry just as much or more for our posterity, for our family. The practice and benefit of marriage concerns our race very far beyond us.

Michel de Montaigne

The curse of marriage
That we can call these delicate creatures ours
And not their appetites!

William Shakespeare

Marriage was instituted as a penance for the sins of celibacy.

Jean de La Bruyère

Marriage is the only chance (and it is but a chance) offered to women for escape from this death and how eagerly and how ignorantly it is embraced.

Florence Nightingale

If we can elect an African American as president, we can support gay marriage! Defeat prop 8! We will not give up!

If there are quarrels between the parents or if their marriage is unhappy, the ground will be prepared in their children for the severest predisposition to a disturbance of sexual development or to neurotic illness.

If men could be contented to be what they are, there were no fear in marriage.

William Shakespeare

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

Benjamin Franklin

Marriage (in what is called the spiritual world) is impossible, because of the inequality between every subject and every object.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

I was never used to being happy, so that wasn't something I ever took for granted. I did sort of think, you know, marriage did that. You see, I was brought up differently from the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy - that's it, successful, happy, and on time.