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Quotes About Marriage

When I was born here in Gulfport in 1966, my parents' interracial marriage was still illegal. And it was very hard to drive around town with my parents, to be out in public with my parents.
~ Natasha Trethewey
I have to be asked, I guess, but I love the idea of marriage. I think it's beautiful. I'm such a romantic, and I always have been.
~ Portia de Rossi
A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night
Adrian Mole's father was so angry that so many pepole got divorced nowadays. HE had been unhappilly married for 30 years, why should everybody else get away?
~ Sue Townsend
Henry VIII had so many wives because his dynastic sense was very strong whenever he saw a maid of honour.
~ Will Cuppy
It should be a very happy marriage - they are both so much in love with him.
~ Irene Thomas
Miss Grantham gave a shriek. 'You have trifled with me!' she said, into the folds of her handkerchief. 'You promised me marriage, and now you mean to cast me off for Another!
~ Georgette Heyer
Daughters-in-law lived with their husbands' parents, not their own; a synonym for marriage in Chinese is "taking a daughter-in-law.
~ Maxine Hong Kingston
Everything in life is a lesson and I have learned from each marriage. Yes, I've made mistakes but every experience is a learning curve.
~ Patsy Kensit
I married him for better or worse. I didn't marry him for lunch.
~ Maryon Pearson
If you fear loneliness, then don't get married.
~ Anton Chekhov
We have a marriage of people of various cultures coming together. It's not a joke. It's real.
~ Stevie Wonder
Evidently, whatever else marriage might prevent, it was not a remedy for isolation of spirit.
~ Ellen Glasgow
My marriage has worked because I am not around much.
~ Michael Palin
I don't know why Christians keep fighting over which is better-singleness or marriage-when it seems rather obvious, both from Scripture and from Church history, that both can glorify God.
~ Rachel Held Evans
And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.
~ Tertullian
It is ill to marry in the month of May.
~ Ovid
The secret of a long marriage is shaving your legs every day . . . because it shows you still care.
~ Gloria Estefan
There are pretenses which are very sincere, and marriage is their school.
~ Miguel de Unamuno
Republicans are taking the defeat over Health Care as well as Tiger Woods took to marriage.
~ Bill Maher
Jeremy, Good luck on your first marriage.
~ David Sedaris
If you are considering marriage, ask yourself one question: Will I still enjoy talking with her when I'm old?
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Every conscientious husband and wife should measure their marriage by the unchanging standard of the principles found in God's Word.
~ Myles Munroe
A long marriage is very unifying, even if it's not ideal, and those old structures must be respected.
~ Iris Murdoch