Marriage - Quotes & Sayings

'New Jack City' was a perfect marriage of music and film. They used a lot of musicians: myself, Christopher Williams. People that were popular because of their music were given the chance to act. And the soundtrack was incredible.

Ice T

I'm totally against straight marriage - even though I'm married. I don't think heterosexual marriage is any of the government's business.

Penn Jillette

I don't think there's anything they can say about me that I haven't said about myself already. And I would be an absolute total liar, and my fans would not respect me, if I said that my life and my marriage are perfect. But we absolutely love each other; we have fun together - it's great.

Mary J. Blige

When someone comes up to me and says, 'Mary, you helped save my marriage', or, 'Mary, you helped me get out of this abusive relationship', I'm in it, really in their lives. And I'm so passionate about my feelings, but also about showing people the way through theirs.

Mary J. Blige

I never believed marriage was a lasting institution. I thought that to be married for five years was to be married forever.

Lauren Bacall

Marriage counselors in particular all strongly recommend divorcees try to understand their role in a divorce before re-marrying. Statistics show if you re-marry before you've clearly seen things from the biter's point of view - you're re-bounded to fail again!

Karen Salmansohn

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

Henry Adams

My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I have a terrific marriage, but unlike a lot of relationships where they ebb and flow, no matter what happens you fall deeper and deeper in love every day. It's kind of the best thing that can happen to you. It's thrilling.

Hugh Jackman

Why is marriage the pinnacle for everyone? People get married for the wrong reasons. We need to start looking at different packages, whether it's living together, or being with six partners, or dedicating your life to taking care of flowers.

Sandra Bullock

And in a marriage you can't TRY and be married. You're married or you're not married... as far as I'm concerned.

Ringo Starr

I was never totally into marriage, and I wasn't a very good wife.

Nell Carter

By the time I had reached the age of 16, in the 10th grade, my parents, after 22 years of marriage, one day decided to get a divorce.

Frank Abagnale

Marriage can be expensive, and if I lose millions then it'll be the best millions I've spent.

Seth Rogen

I think it's important to remember that you go into something like marriage knowing that you don't know very much about it at all. But I do look at the marriage of my mother and stepdad, and what makes it work for them is that it's a team effort.

Justin Timberlake

Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.

Gary Vaynerchuk

I don't think it's in any way harmful, this marriage of media and politicians. I think it enhances the communications process considerably and makes it possible for the public to be far more aware, far more up-to-date on issues and the opposite sides of the issues.

Walter Cronkite

If I go into a relationship with an artist, which at most is going to last five years, we have a 100-page contract covering every eventuality. Whereas with marriage you go into it with no contract, with laws that date back hundreds of years, and I don't think that's right.

Simon Cowell

I couldn't think of anything worse than being in an unhappy marriage. It worries me because I've seen it destroy people.

Simon Cowell

I never even had a bachelorhood: I went straight from my parents' home to a marriage.

Dick Van Dyke

Marriage: A word which should be pronounced 'mirage'.

Herbert Spencer

Republicans need to stay strong on the fact that marriage is between a man and a woman. Those are values that are true to the party and true to who we are. They could focus on jobs and the economy, but we all know that keeping the family structure intact is very important in our country.

Nikki Haley

Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.

Bono

I swear Kim Kardashian's first marriage lasted longer than some of my iPhone chargers.

Lilly Singh

The sweet companionship of eternal marriage is one of the greatest blessings God has granted to His children.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

No person connected with me by blood or marriage will be appointed to office.

Rutherford B. Hayes

I never looked at my parents' marriage or really anyone who had been married more than 30 years and thought, 'I gotta get me some of that!'

Mike Birbiglia

Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is a mistake for women to think that life begins only with marriage. A woman can and must have an identity and feel useful, valued, and needed whether she is single or married. She must feel that she can do something for someone else that no one else ever born can do.

James E. Faust

We make no greater voluntary choice in this life than the selection of a marriage partner. This decision can bring eternal happiness and joy. To find sublime fulfillment in marriage, both partners need to be fully committed to the marriage.

James E. Faust

Marriage was never my goal, because I've never been very traditional.

Chrissy Teigen

Daddy was real gentle with kids. That's why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant.

Loretta Lynn

A key to keeping your husband is getting him to miss you. That keeps a marriage fresh.

Tori Amos

I feel very deeply about the need to respect and tolerate people of different social - or sexual orientation. But at the same time, I believe marriage should be preserved as an institution for one man and one woman.

Mitt Romney

Like me, the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians.

Mitt Romney

My view is that marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman. That's the position I've had for some time, and I don't intend to make any adjustments at this point... Or ever, by the way.

Mitt Romney

Culture, what you believe, what you value, how you live matters. Now, as fundamental as these principles are, they may become topics of democratic debates from time to time, so it is today with the enduring institution of marriage. Marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman.

Mitt Romney

Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty.

Ron Paul

I believe that marriage should be between one man and one woman.

Mitch McConnell

Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

Every girl should be married at least once in her life. It's a must. Because once you have been married, you are a Mrs., and even if the marriage doesn't work out, they can't take that away from you.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

If you like a man and he likes you, you should get married as fast as you can. Otherwise, you both are going to change your minds. There's plenty of time for that after marriage.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

TV does a thing that film can never do. It takes you to a place that no novel written after the late 19th century can. You can just go through people's lives; it's like a marriage.

Joss Whedon

I've had marriage proposals, invitations to military balls and even a few prom offers from 18-year-old boys.

Hope Solo

I've learned this is a very long marriage doing a television show. I like the people that I work with to be people I enjoy, so you want to cast people who are as excited and enthusiastic as you are.

Shonda Rhimes

Marriage brings up all the things I pushed to the back burner - the fears, the mistrust, the doubts, the insecurities. It's like opening Pandora's box.

Jennifer Aniston

Marriage is wonderful.

Jennifer Aniston

Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Lewis Grizzard

I think marriage initially involves a lot of people who have nothing to do with your relationship, because it's a legally binding contract, and that has a weight to it.

Scarlett Johansson

As a devoted mother and private person, and with complete awareness that my daughter will one day be old enough to read the news about herself, I would only like to say that I will never, ever be commenting on the dissolution of my marriage.

Scarlett Johansson