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Quotes About Marriage

Marriage is like the witness protection programme: you get all new clothes, you live in the suburbs, and you're not allowed to see your friends anymore.
~ Jeremy Hardy
There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.
~ Robert Frost
With twice his wits, she had to see things through his eyes -- one of the tragedies of married life.
~ Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first.
~ Adela Rogers St. John
I am fiscally prudent and socially progressive. I believe in protecting a woman's right to choose. I believe in marriage equality.
~ Andrew Cuomo
Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
~ Josh Billings
Them lady poets must not marry, pal.
~ John Berryman, The Dream Songs
And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.
~ P.G. Wodehouse, Mostly Sally
God created marriage. No government subcommittee envisioned it. No social organization developed it. Marriage was conceived and born in the mind of God.
~ Max Lucado
There is nothing more terrorizing than the possibility that nothing is hidden. There is nothing more scandalous than a happy marriage
~ Adam Phillips
Unable to suppress love, the Church wanted at least to disinfect it, and it created marriage.
~ Charles Baudelaire
The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
~ St. Jerome
The secret of a happy marriage is to serve God and each other.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
We are trained to analyze problems and create solutions. We forget that marriage is a relationship, not a project to be completed or a problem to solve.
~ Gary Chapman
The instances that second marriage move Are base respects of thrift, but none of love.
~ William Shakespeare
They say that adultery is the main thing that can damage a marriage, but it's not. It's boredom.
~ Barry Cryer
My husband always felt that a marriage and career don't mix. That's why he's never worked.
~ Phyllis Diller
I don't think Christians should use birth control. You consummate your marriage as often as you like - and if you have babies, you have babies.
~ Randall Terry
I don't believe in marriage. It's bloody impractical. 'To love, honor, and obey.' If it weren't, you wouldn't have to sign a contract.
~ Katharine Hepburn
Marriage was invented to make girls miserable. I will never get married again, not ever again.
~ Nujood Ali
Each marriage bears the footprints of economic and cultural trends which originate far outside marriage.
~ Arlie Russell Hochschild
Bad divorce?" Hardy asked, his gaze falling to my hands. I realized I was clutching my purse in a death grip. "No, the divorce was great," I said. "It was the marriage that sucked.
~ Lisa Kleypas
The whole point of marriage is to encourage your partner's development and have them encourage yours.
~ Carol S. Dweck