Quotes About Marriage

There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.

My parents were married 53 years, good and bad. Can I do that? Probably not. But I really hope I can.

A man cannot possess anything that is better than a good wife, or anything that is worse than a bad one.

Wherever you find marital failure, you will find a breakdown in real communication. Wherever you find marital success, you will find a good communication system.

I want a man who had the good sense to marry Michelle Obama.

Only with our government are you given a certificate at birth, a license at marriage, and a bill at death.

If marriage really is a sacred institution, then why is the government controlling it, especially in a nation that affirms separation of church and state?

I propose that the government should get out of the business of marrying people and, instead, only give legal status to civil unions.

While many governments and well-meaning individuals have redefined marriage, the Lord has not.

My first jobs after graduation in 1955 were as a project engineer for G.E. and later with the U.S. government in Washington, D.C., where I met and married my wife, Dolores Celini.

When you end up happily married, even the failed relationships have worked beautifully to get you there.

In 1860, sixty-three per cent of the couples married in Great Britain had families of four or more children; in 1925 only twenty per cent had more than four.

For Colin Firth: You're a really great guy, but I'm married, so I think we should just be friends.

By all implies marry if you get a great wife/husband, you are going to be pleased. If you get a bad a single, you are going to become a philosopher.

My whole family is missing that sports gene. I hope I didn't screw that up by marrying a great golfer.

My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.

The great marriages are partnerships. It can't be a great marriage without being a partnership.

My parents have been married 50-some years, and I've never heard them fight. I got the chance to attend great universities and medical school.

When I got married, I hired a great choir - the St. James Choir, an all-black gospel choir - to sing at my wedding.

I have a theory that the secret of marital happiness is simple: drink in different pubs to your other half.

I supposed that to marry was to be transported to a heaven not only of happiness but of purity and perfection.

To be married to a wife who can set type is happiness indeed.

Marriages are more likely to fail when one partner not only does not mirror the other's expressions of happiness, but instead shows expressions of contempt.

I always remembered that when I saw people get married they got on a rocketship and went to Planet Happiness, Population: Them.