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Quotes About Marriage

Men would like monogamy better if it sounded less like monotony.
~ Rita Rudner
Marriage is just an elaborate game that allows two selfish people to periodically feel that they're not.
~ Paul Reiser, Couplehood
She says what holds their marriage together is that she feels too damn sorry for him to ask for a divorce.
~ Dean Koontz, Forever Odd
Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.
~ Pearl S. Buck
So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about as numb as a slave in a totalitarian state.
~ Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
Philosophers have a long tradition of marrying stupid women, from Socrates on. They think it clever.
~ Simon Gray, Otherwise Engaged
I feel that marriage can lead to the ultimate rejection and failure and divorce and things we all fear.
~ Mike Birbiglia
So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.
~ Isadora Duncan
The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
I maintain that it should cost as much to get married as to get divorced. Make it look like marriage is worth as much as divorce, even if it ain't.
~ Will Rogers
I am not against marriage. I lived with someone for 11 years. But we weren't in love, and I thought that was quite important.
~ Lynne Truss
Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure.
~ William Shakespeare
Christianity is God's marriage proposal to the soul.
~ Peter Kreeft
Every one who marries goes it blind, more or less.
~ Henry Adams
Marriage is destinie, made in heaven.
~ John Lyly
Such a large sweet fruit is a complete marriage, that it needs a very long summer to ripen in and then a long winter to mellow and season it.
~ Theodore Parker
Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate.
~ Corrine Brown
A woman ought to look up to her husband, if only a half-inch.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Get thee a good husband, and use him as he uses thee.
~ William Shakespeare
I don't see the point of marriage. But when I need my love, I get my love.
~ Michelle Rodriguez
The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female.
~ Anna Quindlen
You dont have a marriage problem, you have a sin problem.
~ Henry R Brandt
I had a lousy marriage and I drank too much.
~ Pat Travers
Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.
~ Phyllis McGinley