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Quotes About Marriage

The marriage bed is the most degenerative influence in the social order.
~ Margaret Sanger
Obviously there was no point in being a bachelor if his houseman was going to filch his booze. If he was going to get robbed, he might just as well get married.
~ Groucho Marx
I always compare marriage to communism. They're both institutions that don't conform to human nature, so you're going to end up with lying and hypocrisy.
~ Bill Maher
Marriage must perforce fight against the all-devouring monster of habit.
~ Honore de Balzac
Singleness is a gift; marriage is a gift. We should not misuse the gifts we've been given.
~ Alistair Begg
Other than my marriage, the decision to get a Ph.D. was probably the best decision of my life.
~ James Stone
Marriage is the tomb of friendship.
~ Hannah Webster Foster
My whole approach to marriage is simple: my wife will do something that drives me insane, I won't say anything, and then, later, I'll die of cancer.
~ Dana Gould
Adultery ... could be as banal as marriage.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Marriage, in contrast to the flu, starts with a fever and ends with the chills.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
Celibacy and suicide are a similar levels of understanding, suicide and a martyr's death not so by any means, perhaps marriage and a martyr's death.
~ Franz Kafka
We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we 'enter into the holy estate of matrimony.
~ Nancy Pearcey
Marriage is sought and kept alive by a deep yearning to know another and be known by another.
~ John Pierrakos
To protect ourselves against the storms of passion, marriage with a woman is a harbor in the tempest; but with a bad woman it is a tempest in the harbor.
~ Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
I believe that marriage is a representation of Christ and the church and when Christ and the church are unified, they are the strongest and most attractive to those that don't know Jesus.
~ Rebecca St. James
We are very puritan in America. We still hold true to these really antiquated values, this idea of the sanctity of marriage.
~ Zoe Lister-Jones
I don't consider my marriages as failures! It's idiotic to assume that because a marriage ends, it's failed.
~ Margaret Mead
Probably the most important single element that I found in my own marriage was a sense of humor. My wife had a delicious sense of humor, and I think I have an adequate one.
~ Walter Cronkite
I've been very lucky in this second marriage. It's just luck. It's absolute luck. And I can only marvel at it. So many other things could have happened that didn't, so overall I feel blessed.
~ Paul Auster
Marriage equality is not a choice. It is a legal right.
~ Cory Booker
On marriage: You sort of stumble along and reconnect and lose each other and reconnect again.
~ Felicity Huffman
There's something about marriage that is not as intensely romantic or interesting as a couple's first meeting.
~ John Sandford
Maybe being married is talking to oneself with one's other self listening.
~ Ruth Rendell
Some marriages are made in heaven, Mine was made in Hong Kong, by the same people who make those little rubber pork chops they sell in the pet department at Kmart.
~ Tom Robbins