Marriage Quotes

Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.

The more time you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes.

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

You can propose marriage naked or in handcuffs, but no one is going to agree to forsake all others for a man in shorts. You can't declare war in shorts or deliver a eulogy in shorts.

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.

I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage.

Marriage? It's like asparagus eaten with vinaigrette or hollandaise, a matter of taste but of no importance.

Marriage is no longer the main way in which societies regulate sexuality and parenting or organize the division of labor between men and women.

After a while in marriage, it doesn't work anymore. There is something missing, there is something wrong. There are few marriages that stay alive forever. We like something, and after a while, we hate what we used to love.

I am drawn to the mystery of marriage. You can never know what the contract is between two people, and that is a very strong subject. I think it may be my subject.

I don't know about marriage as much as I do know that I'd be a great father.

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

I love the concept of togetherness and the entwinement of marriage.

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.

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

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.

In a month's time, I shall be able to give your Majesty news of the Comtesse de Provence, for the marriage is fixed for May 14th; they had prepared many fetes for this marriage, but now they are economising in them for want of money.

Marriage is something I'd recommend everyone to try, if you find the right person, of course.

Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.