Marriage - Quotes & Sayings

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

William Shakespeare

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.

Mark Twain

Marriage, in its truest sense, is a partnership of equals, with neither exercising dominion over the other, but, rather, with each encouraging and assisting the other in whatever responsibilities and aspirations he or she might have.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.

H. L. Mencken

For at least a decade, Millennials have been stereotyped as lazy, entitled, and stuck on social media. While that may not be entirely fair, they are notoriously liberal, overwhelmingly supporting left-leaning candidates and favoring policies like nationalized healthcare and same-sex 'marriage.'

Eric Metaxas

If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all of those things, you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does.

Phil McGraw

It's tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won't drink from my glass.

Rodney Dangerfield

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

Oscar Wilde

The irrationality of disgust suggests it is unreliable as a source of moral insight. There may be good arguments against gay marriage, partial-birth abortions and human cloning, but the fact that some people find such acts to be disgusting should carry no weight.

Paul Bloom

I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying.

Barack Obama

I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.

Barack Obama

We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations - we're doing everything we can to keep our marriage together.

Rodney Dangerfield

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

Oscar Wilde

I think there are a whole host of things that are civil rights, and then there are other things - such as traditional marriage - that, I think, express a community's concern and regard for a particular institution.

Barack Obama

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

Leonardo da Vinci

What I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman, but what I also believe is that we have an obligation to make sure that gays and lesbians have the rights of citizenship that afford them visitations to hospitals, that allow them to be, to transfer property between partners, to make certain that they're not discriminated on the job.

Barack Obama

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

C. S. Lewis

Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.

Voltaire

If I get married, I want to be very married.

Audrey Hepburn

My marriage is on the rocks again, yeah, my wife just broke up with her boyfriend.

Rodney Dangerfield

My husband and I are best of friends first and foremost. We fight like cats and dogs, but never stay mad for long. I was lucky to find him, he is in every way, my soulmate.

Carnie Wilson

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

Samuel Johnson

Take care of him. And make him feel important. And if you can do that, you'll have a happy and wonderful marriage. Like two out of every ten couples.

Neil Simon

Love and marriage are wonderful arenas in which to place a character. We are most likely to risk our morals and beliefs while in love. Betrayal gives tremendous insights into a character as well.

Anita Shreve

In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.

George W. Bush

In marriage, compromise nurtures the relationship.

Tim Allen

There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.

Princess Diana

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Soren Kierkegaard

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

Marilyn Monroe

Our Nation must defend the sanctity of marriage.

George W. Bush

People today expect too much from marriage. Getting married is really like taking on a big new job.

Rosamunde Pilcher

We will see a breakdown of the family and family values if we decide to approve same-sex marriage, and if we decide to establish homosexuality as an acceptable alternative lifestyle with all the benefits that go with equating it with the heterosexual lifestyle.

Jerry Falwell

Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers.

Richard Pryor

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

Marilyn Monroe

Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.

Helen Rowland

I haven't been faithful to my wife. Our marriage has been tainted with my infidelities. I was irresponsible.

David Boreanaz

Marriage feels like an industry with catering and really expensive bands.

Rashida Jones

You can't have a happy family if you don't have a happy marriage.

Jeremy Sisto

Regarding marriage, it - somehow, it didn't happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

When I get married, it'll be no secret.

Elvis Presley

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rita Rudner

When we are baptized and confirmed, when brethren are ordained to the priesthood, when we go to the temple and receive our endowment, when we enter into the new and everlasting covenant of eternal marriage - in all these sacred ordinances, we make solemn commitments to keep God's commandments.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.

Erma Bombeck

He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.

Mae West

Divorce is not the end of the world. It's worse to stay in an unhealthy marriage. That's a worse example for the children.

Jerry Hall

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

George Bernard Shaw

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

George Bernard Shaw

The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family.

Eminem

Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.