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Quotes About Marriage

No long-term marriage is made easily, and there have been times when I've been so angry or so hurt that I thought my love would never recover.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Marriage, at this point in my life? I'm not interested in it. Yet. Maybe later when I'm 35 or 40.
~ Amanda Seyfried
We had a shared experience. That makes a good marriage better. In many ways our marriage is great because she has made it great.
~ George W. Bush
Marriage is not an institution, it is an intuition.
~ Dorothy Richardson
Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.
~ Samuel Richardson
Marriage is something that should be tried at least once. It's educational.
~ Helen Nielsen
Marriage is the clue to human life, but there is no marriage apart from the wheeling sun and the nodding earth, from the strayingof the planets and the magnificence of the fixed stars.
~ D. H. Lawrence
Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.
~ Olive Schreiner
People marry through a variety of other reasons, and with varying results: but to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.
~ James Branch Cabell
I had a terrible marriage the first time around because I had no self-confidence, even though I had tremendous self-confidence.
~ Lynn Johnston
It's a nasty divorce when they can't agree on how to divvy up the His and Hers towels.
~ Robert Breault
Marriage is a state that is attended with so much care and trouble, that it is a kind of faulty indulgence and selfishness to livesingle, in order to avoid the difficulties it is attended with.
~ Samuel Richardson
Love is giving, marriage is buying and selling. You can't put love into a contract.
~ Margaret Atwood
No Government has the moral authority to dismantle the universally understood meaning of marriage.
~ Keith O'Brien
Gender no longer forms an essential part of marriage; marriage under law is a union of equals.
~ Vaughn Walker
[On marriage:] Someone once said that it was like a crowded church - those outside were endeavouring to get in, and those inside were making violent efforts to get out.
~ Myrtle Reed
On both 'The Bachelor' and 'The Bachelorette,' it seems like proposing marriage is equivalent to saying, 'Let's date.' Everyone knows those aren't the same things.
~ Patti Stanger
What an age do we live in, when 'tis a miracle if in ten couples that are married, two of them live so as not to publish to the world that they cannot agree.
~ Dorothy Osborne
Dreams are more personal. We tend to only dream about issues that impact us directly: our careers, our marriage, our children, our family and friends.
~ Charles McPhee
Marriage is the cold potato of love.
~ Myrtle Reed
You've read the Torah, right? So you know the Torah defines marriage as being between one man and one woman.
~ Josh Mandel
I think there is some credibility to the notion that marriage is an institution. It meant something very different hundreds of years ago when it became the norm for people to go off and pair.
~ Zak Orth
The common impulse is not to sustain a marriage by finding satisfaction elsewhere, but to end the marriage and set up a new one which will provide the comfort lacking in the first.
~ Elizabeth Janeway
To marry for love were no reproachful thing if we did not see that of ten thousand couples that do it, hardly one can be brought for an example that it may be done and not repented afterwards.
~ Dorothy Osborne