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Quotes About Marriage

The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding.
~ Margaret Sanger
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and halfway closed there after.
~ James Dobson
I'm knocking our pitiful, pathetic lawmakers. And I thank God that President Bush has stated, we need a Constitutional amendment that states that marriage is between a man and a woman.
~ Jimmy Swaggart
That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.
~ John Updike
Not only, in strict truth, was marriage instituted for the propagation of the human race, but also that the lives of husbands and wives might be made better and happier.
~ Pope Leo XIII
Rush is the death of marriage.
~ Matthew Ashimolowo
It's tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won't drink from my glass.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
Marriage, the family unit, was the "original Department of Health, Education and Welfare."
~ Michael Novak
A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.
~ Terry Pratchett
Marriage is the hardest thing you will ever do. The secret is removing divorce as an option. Anybody who gives themselves that option will get a divorce.
~ Will Smith
If marriage were only bed, we could have made it.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Harry and I have been sweethearts and married more than forty years - and no matter where I was, when I put out my hand Harry's was there to grasp it.
~ Bess Truman
It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination
~ Henry David Thoreau
It is not marriage that fails; it is people that fail. All that marriage does is to show people up.
~ Harry Emerson Fosdick
I think I should date a normal girl. I am tired of dating heroines. While I believe in marriage as an institution, I am also petrified of it.
~ Shahid Kapoor
The only thing my husband and I have in common is that we were married on the same day.
~ Phyllis Diller
When marriage exposes a person's selfishness and sins it's doing what it is meant to do: bringing our sins and wounds to light so we can recognize them, confess them, and begin the healing process.
~ Christopher West
The web of marriage is made by propinquity, in the day to day living side by side, looking outward in the same direction. It is woven in space and in time of the substance of life itself.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Isn't that the ultimate homeland security, standing up and defending marriage?
~ Rick Santorum
If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.
~ Anthony Storr
An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.
~ Bette Davis
Remember that the successful marriage depends on two things: (1) finding the right person and (2) being the right person.
~ Carrie Snow
He married a woman to stop her getting away Now she's there all day.
~ Philip Larkin
Having forbidden all unlawful marriage, and all unseemly practice, and the union of women with women and men with men.
~ Eusebius