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Quotes About Marriage

If you have parents with a healthy relationship, you don't learn that you don't have to be married. I thought being a healthy adult meant you had to have a spouse. I didn't know any different.
~ Alyssa Milano
Fubuki, wouldn't it be a thousand times better to stay unmarried than tie yourself down with some creep? What would you do with a husband like that? And how can you feel ashamed of not marrying one of these men, when you're so sublime, so Olympian? They're almost all shorter than you. Don't you think that's a sign? You're too long a bow for any of these pathetic little shooters.
~ Amelie Nothomb
Non, je ne vais pas vous épouser. On n'épouse pas pour un gâteau. -Le motif serait joli.
~ Amelie Nothomb
odiosos. Tengo una amiga que se ha casado con un japonés. Tiene dos hijos, seis y cuatro años. Llaman a su madre pipí y a su padre caca.  Me reí.
~ Amelie Nothomb
Love? Love? Love is not safe, my lady silk, love is dangerous. It is deceitfully sweet like wine from a fresh palm tree at dawn. Love is fine for singing about and love songs are good to listen to, sometimes even to dance to. But when we need to count on human strength, and when we have to count pennies for food for our stomachs and clothes for our backs, love is nothing. Ah my lady, the last man any woman should think of marrying is the man she loves.
~ Ama Ata Aidoo
Our people have said that for any marriage to work, one party has to be a fool
~ Ama Ata Aidoo
Instead, I think over the years we have cut the strength of marriage and relationships by the law and weakened the institution. We have tried to deal with relationships with no-fault divorce, with child custody, with so many other avenues; and it has not helped.
~ Timothy Murphy
In marriage, a woman becomes the weaker sex, even if her husband doesn't want her to be. This happens because of the way society has built the institution.
~ Kalki Koechlin
Getting married and really digging in with another human being can point out your greatest strengths and your greatest weaknesses.
~ Mat Kearney
There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.
~ Anthony Trollope
Marriage has been a way of attempting to ensure the replication of power and wealth from one generation of another, passing it down from men to men.
~ Rebecca Traister
When a gently born spinster has little money, her choices are few. She might receive an offer of marriage, but it's unlikely to be from a wealthy man, so she'll have a hard life trying to make ends meet for her growing family.
~ Jo Beverley
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
If I had married someone wealthy when I was young, I would have sunk like a stone. Being skint makes life quite clear. You've got to take that job.
~ Anna Chancellor
'The Irish Duke' is a sequel to 'The Decadent Duke' about Lady Georgina Gordon who married the Duke of Bedford. 'The Irish Duke' tells the story of their daughter, Lady Louisa, who married James Hamilton, the powerful and wealthy Duke of Abercorn.
~ Virginia Henley
The Skakel family, when they married into the Kennedys, was so wealthy, they could have purchased the Kennedy family.
~ Mark Fuhrman
My forebears were fantastically wealthy Armenians who came to England from India in the 19th century and did what foreign types do - they married into a penniless but well-bred local family.
~ Saul David
My mother was madly adventurous. My father was an actor - he worked with Gielgud - and my mother came from a very wealthy family. She definitely wasn't meant to marry an actor, but she eloped with him one lunch-time.
~ Francesca Annis
I have a secret weapon. My wife Cynthia is very good at keeping me in shape. She's very good for me. She's the best thing that happened to me.
~ Paul Rodgers
I like to make my husband like me more, and he likes it when I'm wearing makeup.
~ Gwen Stefani
I was married once. When the tinsel from Tum Bin' was wearing off, so was the happiness from my first marriage. Ever since, I've been wary of marrying again.
~ Priyanshu Chatterjee
In the Hillary Clinton model, the wife chooses to support the straying husband while wearing a distressed and presumably pained expression in public. She stays in the marriage as a way to serve both her personal ambition as well as their shared ambition to achieve ever-greater positions of power and influence.
~ Monica Crowley
When one has been married over thirty years, of course it would be absurd not to admit there have been some difficulties, at some times. But the important thing is that we have weathered them.
~ Louis Jourdan
Michael and I had great role models. Though his father has passed away, his parents had an amazingly strong marriage, as do mine. Both weathered really tough times. For us it has been normal to stay together through difficulties. We grew up witnessing that firsthand.
~ Tracy Pollan