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Quotes About Marriage

Marriages don't last. When I meet a guy, the first question I ask myself is: is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
~ Rita Rudner
The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.
~ Oscar Wilde
Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will act to destroy that government and bring it down.
~ Orson Scott Card
Friendship is the union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue
~ William Penn
There are four stages to marriage. First there's the affair, then there's the marriage, then children, and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.
~ Norman Mailer
Marriage is a tyranny, a mortification of man's natural instincts. Man needs a multiplicity of relationships.
~ Federico Fellini
Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.
~ Mark Twain
Man scans with scrupulous care the character and pedigree of his horses, cattle, and dogs before he matches them; but when he comes to his own marriage he rarely, or never, takes any such care.
~ Charles Darwin
Marriage is the permanent conversation between two people who talk over everything and everyone until death breaks the record.
~ Cyril Connolly
Even cohabitation has been corrupted - by marriage.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The state of marriage is one that requires more virtue and constancy than any other; it is a perpetual exercise in mortification.
~ Saint Francis de Sales
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.
~ Tom Petty
All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.
~ Lord Byron
The prerequisite for a good marriage ... is the license to be unfaithful.
~ Carl Jung
Marriage is a lot like the army, everyone complains, but you'd be surprise at the large number that re-enlist.
~ James Garner
Don't marry a man to reform him - that's what reform schools are for.
~ Mae West
No marriage is "too dead" for the Lord to restore.
~ Charles R. Swindoll
Many people are skeptical about marriage of Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Pressley. They say, Lisa Marie is more of a sit at home type, while Michael Jackson is more of a homosexual pedophile.
~ Norm MacDonald
God, I hope he dies the night before one of his kids get married.
~ Jim Norton
Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough.
~ Ingrid Bergman
As the head of a religious party, I am not in favor of civil marriage or the full recognition of non-Orthodox converts in Israel.
~ Ayelet Shaked
Recipe for a happy marriage: My wife and I always hold hands. If I let go, she shops.
~ Red Skelton
Culture is like the current of the ocean. Where has it taken your marriage?
~ Ted Lowe