Quotes About Marriage

When you're a writer, you want to try to avoid cliches. Unfortunately, when you're writing about marriage or family, all cliches seem to apply.

If married couples did not live together, happy marriages would be more frequent.

Oh, he was asking to have an open marriage and I refused.

In 1977 we played America and Europe three times, and Japan - my marriage suffered as a result. My then wife took the kids to Canada to be near her parents

Some of the best advice I got from a close friend is marriage is always looked at from the world as 50/50 as to working together to make that 100 percent.

Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what's going on in another person's marriage.

I don't want marriage. You know why? Because I did that. I did it for 32 years.

Marriage changes things because there's a lot more at stake. You can't get too toxic because you have to live together. No one can reach for the nuclear button too quickly.

If common sense had been consulted, how many marriages would never have taken place; if uncommon or divine sense, how few marriages such as we witness would ever have taken place!

Wedlock is a narrow business.

A good marriage is like an incredible retirement fund. You put everything you have into it during your productive life, and over the years it turns from silver to gold to platinum.

A married man has many cares, but a bachelor no pleasures.

Marriage is better than leprosy only because it's easier to get rid of.

Ah, the poverty, the miserable poverty, of any love that lies outside of marriage, of any love that is not a living together, a sharing of all!

Marriage is not an institution to be tampered with by mankind, and certainly not to be tampered with by those who are doing so simply for their own purposes.

Our early lessons in love and our developmental history shape the expectations we bring into marriage.

The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.

If you leave your wife and you don't ever contact her again, that says something about how you felt about the marriage.

To me, marriage is partly a religious thing and I'm not religious.

There is no such thing in the Lord's eyes as something called same-gender marriage.

The quality of a marriage is proven by its ability to tolerate an occasional "exception.

I've been married fifty-five years and I've been home three weeks.

In marriage, the occasional catastrophic crisis is easier to manage than the daily routine.

Marriage is about raising children. That's the purpose of the institution.