Marriage - Quotes & Sayings

There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.

Clint Eastwood

Marriage helps young couples to raise themselves towards God. The bond of marriage unites two souls so firmly that though they are physically two separate entities, their souls are merged into one harmonious whole.

Dada Vaswani

A good marriage is different to a happy marriage.

Debra Winger

Well I don't know that I'm okay any more than anyone else is okay, I lead a happy life and a very full one - I have a happy marriage and my kids are all cheerful, and no one is finding fault with me, personally.

L. Ron Hubbard

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

Michel de Montaigne

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

George Bernard Shaw

When you see a merger between two giants in a declining industry, it can look like the financial version of a couple having a baby to save a marriage.

Adam Davidson

Here's why I cannot vote for Rudy Giuliani. He's pro-abortion. He's never repudiated gay marriage in New York City or at least the civil unions in New York City. He's called a champion of gay rights. Rudy is opposed to school choice. He's in favor of open borders.

James Dobson

My decision to end my marriage was such a risk to lose ratings and lose my fan base. I had to take that risk for my inner peace and to be happy with myself.

Kim Kardashian

We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we 'enter into the holy estate of matrimony.'

Nancy Pearcey

A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage, but an ex-wife is there for the rest of your life.

Jim Samuels

Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats.

Marge Piercy

I have a very happy marriage and friends who keep my feet on the ground. But looking for satisfaction in life is difficult. Maybe being happy is as simple as not being unhappy.

Jasper Carrott

Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.

Joyce Brothers

Marriage isn't always cupcakes and Jesus juice, but it's important to show each other your marriage is a priority and that you still love them.

Zoe Foster Blake

I was totally surprised by the spread of the legalization of same-sex marriage. In just my lifetime we have gone from a taboo to even talk about homosexuality, to the sanction by governments of homosexual marriage. Few such large social considerations have ever before been turned over in such a short time.

John Naisbitt

If women will not accept marriage with subjection, nor men proffer it without, there is, there can be, no alternative. The women who will not be ruled must live without marriage. And during this transition period... single women make comfortable and attractive homes for themselves.

Susan B. Anthony

Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking.

Marvin Gaye

They say marriage will change you but it didn't change me. Being in love changed me.

R. Kelly

There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.

Norman Mailer

I knew marriage was not the answer to changing the conditions for poor, black, queer folks. So I never felt compelled to get married - it just didn't seem important. But even if marriage wasn't right for me at the time, or a quick fix toward black empowerment, I found it repulsive that loving same-sex couples were refused the right.

Patrisse Cullors

My friends, they get married at 15 years old. I saw them with bruises on their faces. I realized this is the real face of child marriage.

Sonita Alizadeh

It's a lot of work to make a marriage work. Just because you have been married for a while doesn't mean you can sit back and relax. You still have to be on your toes. A marriage needs constant attention.

Malaika Arora Khan

Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps.

Joe Murray

You can't wake up one day and say 'I'm for gay marriage,' and wake up the next day and say 'I'm against it.' Wake up one day and say, 'I'm pro-choice,' and the next day wake up and say, 'I'm pro-life.' There's no credibility there.

Roger Stone

Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

I've had an exciting time; I married for love and got a little money along with it.

Rose Kennedy

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

H. L. Mencken

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?

H. L. Mencken

Ultimately, I believe the only secret to a happy marriage is choosing the right person. Life is a series of choices, right?

Michelle Pfeiffer

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

Ambrose Bierce

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

Oscar Wilde

Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.

Dick Gregory

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.

Groucho Marx

The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny.

Nikola Tesla

I believe that if man and woman cherish the same ideals and think alike, then the marriage can be complementary to each other's work instead of being a hindrance.

Munshi Premchand

As you are not yet married, and as marriage is the fundamental state of life as well as the unity of the commonwealth, make up your mind whether you are called to this state. If you make up your mind to marry, do not marry merely a good wife: marry a good mother to your children.

Vincent McNabb

The social relations which are the basis of the reproduction of the species are founded upon the continuous union of parents in marriage.

Maria Montessori

Usually, the fairy tale ends with the girl marrying the prince. But mine started as soon as the marriage was over.

Diane von Furstenberg

I think Mozart's operas 'The Marriage of Figaro' and 'Don Giovanni' are the two most perfect ever written. The music is magical.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

There is nothing wrong with your marriage if you're dealing with bills and kids and the broken garbage disposal and in-laws and work demands. That's a normal marriage.

Phil McGraw

Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.

Helen Rowland

I'm not for gay marriage, but I'm not for discriminating against people.

Joel Osteen

Spiritually, we have marginalized the Bible. We've trivialized marriage, and we've neutralized the church. America today is in great turmoil. It feels like the soul of our nation has been taken from us.

David Jeremiah

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.

Henny Youngman

I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.

Bette Davis

You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse.

Omar Khayyam

Marriage is anti-romantic - husband and wife are terms like 'turkey' and 'goose.' Worse, they denote ownership.

Thomas McGuane

Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.

Abraham Verghese

I definitely have a happy marriage and family life.

Viola Davis