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Quotes About Marriage

There is a crisis in America. That crisis is divorce. It is easier to get out of a marriage than (to get out of a) contract to buy a used car.
~ Mike Huckabee
If you have a boat and a happy marriage, you don't need another thing.
~ Ed McMahon
Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.
~ Diane Ackerman
Many a marriage hardly differs from prostitution, except being harder to escape from.
~ Bertrand Russell
When it's your fourth marriage, you tend to lose faith in superstitions.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Heiresses are never jilted.
~ George Meredith
I've never quite understood why people marry; marriage is just an invented structure
~ Julie Christie
What a good thing there is no marriage or giving in marriage in the after-life; it will certainly help to smooth things out.
~ Barbara Pym
I often think we do not take this business of photography in a sufficiently serious spirit. Issuing a photograph is like marriage: you can only undo the mischief with infinite woe.
~ H. G. Wells
Marriage isn't a 50-50 proposition very often. It's more like 100-0 one moment and 0-100 the next.
~ Billie Jean King
Ay, marriage is the life-long miracle, The self-begetting wonder, daily fresh.
~ Charles Kingsley
Never marry a girl named 'Marie' who used to be known as 'Murray'.
~ Johnny Carson
Marriage, and the process of coming to it, is not heaven! It is the bonding together of two needy sinners in order to make a partnership which is substantially greater than either of them alone.
~ Sinclair B. Ferguson
Many marriages are simply working partnerships between businessmen and housekeepers.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Marriage is a language of love, equality, and inclusion.
~ Evan Wolfson
When you have kids, there's a tendency to put the marriage stew on the back burner and give it a quick stir now and then. But it's important to remember why you had children with this person.
~ Allison Pearson
The best by far is to marry in one's own rank.
~ Aeschylus
With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits.
~ Eleanor Holmes Norton
How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Hasty marriage seldom proveth well.
~ William Shakespeare
Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.
~ Alexander Pope
Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce.
~ Larry Gelbart
O marriage! marriage! what a curse is thine, Where hands alone consent and hearts abhor.
~ Aaron Hill