Marriage - Quotes & Sayings

Only after I faced the unhappiness of my first marriage did I start on the path of personal growth.

Judith Wright

Plenty of the women who were single in the nineteenth century wrote about their desire to evade marriage. Marriage was scary in a lot of ways. It often involved having a lot of kids, losing your autonomy, being in service to a husband and children who were often born at an unremitting pace without the benefit of modern medicine.

Rebecca Traister

I remember driving home one evening while they were reviewing the papers on the radio. One of the articles was about me separating from my wife. It's a weird thing to listen to a news report about the break-up of your marriage.

Rory Bremner

When you don't have access to a subject, and all you have is ex-members and critics, there is this gravitational pull toward telling a certain version of events. Scientology would say this, and they have a point, that it's like doing a portrait of a marriage in which you're only hearing from the ex-wife and not the ex-husband.

Louis Theroux

The only day I remember of my parents' marriage was the day my dad walked out. As I stood there at five years old, with my older sister and younger brother, I knew that he was gone.

Ellie Goulding

You can spend the day at work, but when you go home, and you're in the role of a father or a husband, you don't have to remind yourself that you shouldn't tell your wife to hold the messages. If you do, that marriage is not going to last very long.

Hannah Simone

Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.

Jean Giraudoux

Marriage is a financial contract; I have enough contracts already.

Linda Fiorentino

I went into rehab to save my marriage, but I wound up saving myself.

Michael Douglas

My mother and father met at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He was a senior and she was a junior, and their marriage didn't last very long.

Michael Douglas

I try not to dwell too much on a bad marriage.

Michael Douglas

It took me too long to realise that if you go to a marriage counsellor to resolve problems, it's in his interest to keep the marriage going.

Michael Douglas

All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.

Raymond Hull

When my mother had four girls, and she could tell her marriage was falling apart, she went back to college and got her degree in music and education.

Andie MacDowell

I'm all for same-sex marriage.

Tori Spelling

If there's a rift in the marriage - if someone feels neglected, frustrated, tempted by others, or unsure - then trouble can easily arise.

Kate Christensen

Obviously, the institution of marriage in America has utterly collapsed.

Paul Singer

Marriage is a custom brought about by women who then proceed to live off men and destroy them, completely enveloping the man in a destructive cocoon or eating him away like a poisonous fungus on a tree.

Richard Harris

I don't see anything degrading about marriage or homemaking, but my husband and I pool the money we earn, along with the jobs around the house.

Valerie Harper

I support same-sex marriage.

Anthony Foxx

I like getting married, but I don't like being married.

Don Adams

If you cannot work on the marriage or the women is a moron, staying married and cheating makes the most sense because divorce is disruptive to the family life and your bank account.

Al Goldstein

Pink Floyd is like a marriage that's on a permanent trial separation.

Rick Wright

No one - not a conservative or liberal or whatever - can stand back and 'define' what marriage means. Other people's marriages have nothing to do with mine; whether my neighbors are divorced or gay or widowed will not lead me to change anything about how my wife and I deal with each other or how we raise our children.

Kurt Eichenwald

Civil union is less than marriage. Marriage is a sacred and valued institution and ought to be afforded equal protection.

James McGreevey

Marriage is a walk in the park compared to being a single mother or father. I'll take that walk later.

Sophie B. Hawkins

I had been living in Ohio in my own house with my own life when my marriage abruptly came to an end. I had nowhere to go with my two sons, very little money, and not much to do in Ohio except be someone's ex-wife. My parents instantly and very generously invited my family to move back home to New York, where I could begin again.

Isabel Gillies

Out of control judicial activism threatens traditional marriage in America.

Ernest Istook

The tour life is real tough on a marriage. To the young guy who is just getting his PGA Tour card and is in a serious relationship, my advice is to wait three years before getting married.

Boo Weekley

I wanted to marry a girl just like my mom.

Michael Bergin

It's very trying on a marriage when you're doing a one hour show, week after week after week. You don't have enough time for people that maybe you should have top priority.

Gavin MacLeod

But to sustain a marriage for 50 years, you have to get real a little bit and find someone who is understanding and who you can grow with. My mom always says, 'Marry the man who loves you a millimeter more.'

Ali Larter

One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.

Robert Burton

Let me first state that I believe that marriage is a sacred union between one man and one woman.

Judy Biggert

My characters always start well in movies. Almost every movie I've done starts with a happy marriage, it's all beautiful, wealthy, whatever... and then of course my husband leaves me, and everything falls apart.

Carole Bouquet

My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.

Olivia Williams

I might be celibate, but I appreciate the wonder of the sacrament of marriage.

Keith O'Brien

I don't think my wife likes me very much, when I had a heart attack she wrote for an ambulance.

Frank Carson

I always remembered that when I saw people get married they got on a rocketship and went to Planet Happiness, Population: Them.

Marc Webb

Marriage is an exercise in torture.

Frances Conroy

The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.

A. P. Herbert

We're used to boy meets girl, boy likes girl, instant attraction on TV. But you throw a son in there, you throw a marriage in there, and you've got some really good character stuff.

Matt Passmore

For women of my generation, it was the 'juggling act.' Jobs, marriage, children, homes, and aging parents were the balls we added, tossing them in the air as our lives filled up and praying they wouldn't come crashing down on our heads.

Willow Bay

When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place.

Helen Gahagan

Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.

Beverley Nichols