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Quotes About Marriage

It is not we as individuals, then, who must bend uncomfortably around the institution of marriage; rather, it is the institution of marriage that has to bend uncomfortably around us.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Success in marriage depends on being able, when you get over being in love, to really love....You never know anyone until you marry them.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Heather knows why and when her marriage ended with Richie and she knows why my marriage ended with Charlie.
~ Denise Richards
Marriage is a sort of tacit hunting in couples.
~ Susan Sontag
A real farmer. He spent his childhood in the wheat, and his marriage in the hay.
~ Mae West
I look at marriage and I think marriage is phenomenal. I think it's great. I don't hold anything against marriage.
~ Kim Basinger
Nothing is as bad as a marriage that's a hopeless failure.
~ D. H. Lawrence
Marriage should not be viewed as a therapeutic step to solve problems such as homosexual inclinations or practices.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
When one hears the argument that marriage should be indissoluble for the sake of children, one cannot help wondering whether the protagonist is really such a firm friend of childhood.
~ Suzanne La Follette
If I ever mary, it will be on a suddn impulse - as aman shoots himself
~ H. L. Mencken
I grew up very conservatively and traditionally. I wanted to save myself for marriage.
~ Linda D. Thompson
My parents separated when I was four. It wasn't the smoothest of divorces, but then as my mother always says, you can't have a passionate marriage without a passionate divorce.
~ Sophie Ellis Bextor
Marriage is a religious and state issue.
~ Jim DeMint
Marriage is indeed a maneuvering business.
~ Jane Austen
No human being can destroy the structure of a marriage except the two who made it. It is the one human edifice that is impregnable except from within.
~ Gwen Bristow
For me, marriage is a grotesque, unforgiving, clunky contrivance. Yet society pushes it as a shimmering ideal.
~ George Meyer
Arranged Marriages don't always have to be risky. Get to know your future in-laws. She's bound to be like one of them.
~ Siddharth Katragadda
I've learned a lot about how to be in a band. It's like being in a marriage to these people. Because there's so many of us, there's a polygamous quality to it, which I've heard is really enjoyable.
~ Nicholas Thorburn
Marriage is a sleepy guard to which one confides one's dearest treasure, love.
~ Libbie Block
When she smiles niggers ask her for her hand in marriage; when I smile folks check their wallets.
~ Junot Diaz
Marriage is a linchpin in many womens lives, but many other things can create a satisfying life. I adore my career. It stretches every physical, emotional, and intellectual muscle I have.
~ Geraldine Stutz
We need to know what the Bible says about abortion and marriage, poverty and slavery, and we need to see how all of these issues fundamentally relate to the gospel.
~ David Platt
My marriage license reads, 'To whom it may concern,'
~ Mickey Rooney
In my kids school, the married family is an anomaly which I do think is sad. I do believe in marriage.
~ Marcia Gay Harden