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Quotes About Marriage

My husband wanted one of those big-screen TVs for his birthday. So I just moved his chair closer to the one we have already.
~ Wendy Liebman
Of course I didn't take my wife to see Rochdale as an anniversary present. It was her birthday and would I have got married during the football season? Anyway, it was Rochdale reserves.
~ Bill Shankly
On every birthday, I ask my wife, 'What would you like this year?' and her instant reply is, 'Diamonds! Diamonds! Diamonds!' I'm always living in hope that one day she'll say she just wants me!
~ Akshay Kumar
My mental hands were empty, and I felt I must do something as a counterirritant or antibody to my hysterical alarm at getting married at the age of 43.
~ Ian Fleming
Even in this day and age, if you're not married, there are people who are like, 'Don't worry, it'll happen for you someday.'
~ Kristen Wiig
An adult woman should not be so possessive of her own birthday that she begrudges her friends the chance to get married on the same day.
~ Mallory Ortberg
I'm definitely not getting married. In this business, you're either getting married or they want you to be pregnant. I'm not getting married until I'm forty. If ever.
~ Zac Efron
I'm not even worried about settling down. I think it's way too early. I'm 25 and I'm in show business. I mean, if things go well, my wife hasn't even been born yet.
~ Arj Barker
I'd like to see myself married with a child and hopefully still involved in the entertainment business as an actor who is also able to write a bit and direct some projects.
~ Fred Savage
If I'd married someone in show business, there'd be too much competition.
~ Dolly Parton
I got to show off in front of my husband, who married me as I was stepping out of the business, so he had no idea that I could strut my stuff on the stage.
~ Kim Wilde
When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.
~ Prince Philip
I told my wife she looks sexy with black fingernails. Now she thinks I slammed the car door on her hand on purpose.
~ Emo Philips
I bought my wife a new car. She called and said, "There is water in the carburetor." I said, "Where's the car?" She said, "In the lake."
~ Henny Youngman
When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife. My wife dresses to kill. She cooks the same way.
~ Henny Youngman
I don't want to argue with my wife about her car - or my driving.
~ Dale Earnhardt
Matrimony is the only game of chance the clergy favor.
~ Emily Murphy
When I was first married, my husband said I was one of the bravest people he knew. When I asked him why, he said because I was a complete coward but went ahead and did things anyhow.
~ Pema Chodron
When they married he wouldn't be able to go on where he was. On the other hand, if she wouldn't have him, he didn't see that he would be able to go on at all.
~ Penelope Fitzgerald
How many men have asked you to marry them?' 'Not a lot. Most had too strong an instinct for self-preservation.
~ Penelope Lively
When we are married - and we will be married, I know we will, I see the long years of our marriage ahead like a great spacious welcoming firelit room - when we are married we shall have a house in London because I want to show you off. I want to wave you around in pride. We'll have that - but we'll also have Porlock, or somewhere like Porlock because we're going to want to be alone, and work, and shut the door on people...
~ Penelope Lively
The church by and large is sitting back while we allow 15 percent of the population—the liberal media, college professors, and press—to undermine our faith and brainwash the next generation with their ungodly propaganda. Evolution, abortion, and the destruction of traditional marriage are deadly tares in the wheat field and poison in the drinking water.
~ Unknown
In 1076 he decreed that none of the English clergy would be allowed to marry.
~ Peter Ackroyd
In the medieval marriage service the wife had pledged to be 'bonner and buxom in bed and in board'. This has the nice alliteration of an older language. Now both partners were asked to 'love and to cherish' 'for better, for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health'.
~ Peter Ackroyd