Marriage Quotes

If we abandon marriage, we abandon the family.

We didn't know that Mother had gone through a passionate love affair or that Father suffered from severe depression. Mother was preparing to break out of her marriage, Father threatening to take his own life.

What I've learned about marriage: You need to have each other's back; you have to be a kind of team going through life.

Anything that you do in life, whether it's work or a relationship or marriage, you get into it with a lot of positivity.

After my marriage ended - a hundred years ago - I had a few memorable Christmases on my own: what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

As an actor, you just want to work, and then you just want to be on a show or have a job that you love, and you hope that job will last - those things have happened. To have that platform to then talk about something that is very personal to me like marriage equality, it feels like a gift. I try and really respect that voice and not abuse it.

I think marriage is beautiful, but I have mixed feelings about it.

Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.

Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.

Anybody with a sharp brain and a mic can become a comedian, but there's a need to move beyond it. The audience wants to witness the marriage of theatre, comedy and something more.

Oh, how I treasure this freedom. I really do It's a glorious, wonderful experience. I am off marriage - for life!

When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

People need jobs, people need happy and successful lives; there should be marriage between one man and one woman, there should the value of person from conception until natural death.

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.

The key to a happy marriage is myself being absent for long periods of time. My wife Leesa and I will celebrate our tenth wedding anniversary next year, but if my comedy gigs petered out and I was around the house more, we'd 100% be getting divorced.

If the court strikes down the Defense of Marriage Act, is that a 'liberal' result enabling gay couples married in states where gay marriage is legal to enjoy the same economic advantages that federal laws now grant to straight couples? Or is it a 'conservative' ruling, limiting the federal government's ability to override state power?

Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.

Marriage can be work, it can be difficult, it can be hard, but I think working through those times makes you stronger as a couple and as a unit.

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.