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Quotes About Marriage

There is a vast difference between the savage and the civilized man, but it is never apparent to their wives until after breakfast.
~ Helen Rowland
I have no difficulty with the recognition of civil unions for non-traditional relationships but I believe in law we should protect the traditional definition of marriage.
~ Stephen Harper
Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.
~ William Wycherley
Life begins to happen. My hoppped up husband drops his home disputes, and hits the streets to cruise for prostitutes
~ Robert Lowell
I was looking very much for a career. My second marriage to Stan Herman had ended, and I wanted very much to be independent, not take alimony from him, be on my own, do the right thing.
~ Linda Evans
I have married thriteen couples. I'm about to do a marriage next month.
~ Sally Kirkland
Marriage is very difficult. Marriage is like a five-thousand-piece jigsaw puzzle, all sky.
~ Cathy Ladman
Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Would you ascend to Heaven and bodiless dwell? Or take your bodies honorless to Hell? In Heaven you have heard no marriage is, No white flesh tinder to your lecheries
~ John Crowe Ransom
The joys of marriage are the heaven on earth, Life's paradise, great princess, the soul's quiet, Sinews of concord, earthly immortality, Eternity of pleasures.
~ John Ford
The happiest marriages are full of alternative lives, lived in the head, unknown to the partner.
~ John Bayley
Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
What this anger hides is grief ... the reality that his wife didn't value their marriage as much as he did. He realizes it was a mistake.
~ David Gill
Now, it's true I married my wife for her looks... but not the ones she's been givin' me lately.
~ Jeff Foxworthy
I tried marriage. I'm 0 for 3 with the marriage thing. So, being a ballplayer - I believe in numbers. I'm not going 0 for 4. I'm not wearing a golden sombrero.
~ Charlie Sheen
The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.
~ Carolyn Heilbrun
I was very happy in both my marriages. I was unfaithful and so were they, just like any other normal couple.
~ Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Marriage has made me a lot happier and I'm deeply in love with my wife, and I thank God for her every day.
~ Harry Connick, Jr.
Design, to me, is part psychology, part sociology, and part magic. A good decorator should know what's going on in someone's marriage and how their kids are doing in school.
~ Nate Berkus
Marriage made more sense when it was indissoluble. It's the woman trying to cope with the strains of a one-parent family who will suffer most from the relaxation of the divorce laws.
~ Germaine Greer
The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family.
~ Eminem
Marriage is another trap. If you are someone who likes independence, it's another stamp against that. And you have to swear to fidelity.
~ Carla Bruni