Marriage - Quotes & Sayings
I believe that marriage is between one man and one woman, the same as I've believed all my life.
Mark NeumannI have been doing marriage counseling for about 15 years and I realized that what makes one person feel loved, doesn't make another person feel loved.
Gary ChapmanMy first marriage was not happy. I married him because I was impressed that he knew which wines to order and how to leave his visiting card. Ridiculous reasons.
Jean SebergThe most important thing for a good marriage is to learn how to argue peaceably.
Anita EkbergA marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
Andre MauroisAnyone who watched George W. and Karl Rove while the former was governor of Texas will recognize a familiar pattern. Like much of Bush's social policy - from faith-based social services to railing against gay marriage - women's issues are one of the bones they've decided they can throw to the Christian right.
Molly IvinsMy thoughts are that marriage is between a man and a woman.
Ben CarsonMarriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it.
Ben CarsonMarriage was never a destination with me.
Diane von FurstenbergTo be honest, marriage doesn't scare me and that, it's just once you've been together for so long, if you haven't got any kids it's just a big expensive day out for everyone else to enjoy, isn't it?
Karl PilkingtonI'm the person that I always was, but in terms of how I approach my living, I'm not the same person at all. At all. I've buried a child, I've ended a marriage, and the grandson that I was raising is now grown. My family has totally shifted.
Iyanla VanzantI've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage.
Keith RichardsBut the key to our marriage is the capacity to give each other a break. And to realize that it's not how our similarities work together; it's how our differences work together.
Michael J. FoxMarriage is a great institution.
Elizabeth TaylorI believe in the institution of marriage, and I intend to keep trying till I get it right.
Richard PryorIf there were no immortality there would be no need for temples. There would be no need for eternal marriage if there were no eternity.
Gordon B. HinckleyDetermine that there will never be anything that will come between you that will disrupt your marriage. Make it work. Resolve to make it work.
Gordon B. HinckleyDuring last night's debate, John Kerry and John Edwards were so friendly to each other some political experts think that they may end up running together. In fact Kerry and Edwards were so friendly, President Bush accused them of planning a gay marriage.
Conan O'BrienI was never against marriage per se. Before feminism, I didn't think you had any choice. In fact, for a long time I always assumed I would get married. I just didn't see any marriages I wanted to emulate, so I kept putting it off.
Gloria SteinemProponents of same-sex marriage regularly label opponents 'radical' and 'extremist.' However, given that no society in thousands of years has allowed same-sex marriage, it is, by definition, the proponents of same-sex marriage whose position is radical and extreme.
Dennis PragerI'm more afraid of marriage than death.
ShakiraThe truth is that I'm more afraid of marriage than of death.
ShakiraI just don't find marriage a necessary step in a couple's life.
ShakiraLike everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
W. H. AudenIt took me a long time to be convinced that marriage was right for me because I've come from a long line of broken marriages. My parents divorced, and I had two broken marriages myself.
Sylvester StalloneI didn't think marriage worked. I thought everybody who was married was secretly miserable - that it was something they just put up with for their children.
Salma HayekMy grandmother was energetic and fearless - a talented poet and songwriter. She was also interested in chemistry and history and medicine, taking care of the people in her hacienda in Mexico, delivering babies. She could have become anything, but this was the 1930s, and she was forced into an arranged marriage.
Salma HayekIt's nice to know you have support. Last night I got a marriage proposal. I just laughed.
Carrie UnderwoodYou don't really need to get married, but marriage is awfully nice. Everybody I know who got married, they say it really makes a difference. They feel very, very happy about it.
Lily TomlinMy partner Donald Trump says that married couples should always have a prenuptial agreement. True, a prenuptial is important if one partner is much richer than the other before marriage, but Kim and I don't have one.
Robert KiyosakiEvery marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.
John UpdikeThat a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.
John UpdikeI think the gay community should get smart and drop the word 'marriage.' Do you really need to change every right-wing Christian to make sure you get your equal rights? Eyes on the prize, we should be sticking to getting equal rights.
Ani DiFrancoA constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage is a form of gay bashing and it would do nothing to protect traditional marriages.
Coretta Scott KingA successful marriage is a decision. You decide it's going to work. You can't always be there, but you have to be there enough. And you have to make sure you are where you're needed most.
Nancy PelosiThe State Marriage Defense Act helps safeguard the ability of states to preserve traditional marriage for their citizens.
Ted CruzThere is a liberal fascism that is dedicated to going after believing Christians who follow the biblical teaching on marriage.
Ted CruzWe need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage.
Ted CruzMarriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
Samuel ButlerUntil the courts put a stop to it, public debate over same-sex marriage displayed American democracy at its best. Individuals on both sides of the issue passionately, but respectfully, attempted to persuade their fellow citizens to accept their views.
Antonin ScaliaI think women are natural caretakers. They take care of everybody. They take care of their husbands and their kids and their dogs, and don't spend a lot of time just getting back and taking time out.
Reese WitherspoonMarriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.
Washington IrvingBooks and marriage go ill together.
MoliereWe're so immaturely cynical as a culture. We're not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they're stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another.
Jordan PetersonOnly choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
Joseph JoubertIt is disgusting that 'Life & Style' and 'InTouch' magazines continue to print these false stories about my life: the status of my marriage, false reports about a miscarriage, the horrible lie that my dad is not my biological father, jealousy over my sisters' lives, etc.
Khloe KardashianWith my divorce, and even during the end of my marriage before it even got publicly bad, how I decided to cope with things was to go on the treadmill for an hour.
Khloe KardashianI am against marriage, and I don't give a fig for society.
Brigitte BardotIn Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.
Rita RudnerI got a few marriage proposals in my 20s. I just wasn't ready. I just knew if I committed, I would've wound up doing something wrong, messing it up. I still felt like I had some living to do.
Queen Latifah