Quotes About Marriage

Same-sex couples should be able to get married.

They say all marriages are made in heaven, but so are thunder and lightning.

The best thing a girl can be is a good wife and mother. It is a girl's highest calling. I hope I am ready.

Many people marry for the wrong reasons, among them 1) To overcome loneliness. 2) To escape an unhappy parental home. 3) Because they think that everyone is expected to marry. 4) Because only 'losers' who can't find someone to marry stay single. 5) Out of a need to parent, or be parented by another person. 6) Because they got pregnant. 7) Because 'we fell in love,' ...and on goes the list.

I think that having the compassion of someone who knows your faults and still loves you is one of the best things you can have in life. I just love being married. It's nice, and I like wearing the ring. It's cool.

All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.

Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.

A man does not ask a woman to marry him because he wants to spend the rest of his life with her. He asks her to marry him because he 'does not' want to spend the rest of his life 'without' her.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.

The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.

I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse

Books and marriage go ill together.

Of all actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all actions of our life tis most meddled with by other people.

I don't know what it takes to make marriage work, but I'm going to keep trying until I get it right. I haven't given up on love or marriage.

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

Marriage is... OK, it's rooted and grounded on love and attraction.

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

The legend that matrimony is a lottery has almost ruined the lottery business

Marriage is a state of antagonistic cooperation.

Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer

It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination

Marriage is a ghastly public confession of a strictly private intention

There are two kinds of marriages - where the husband quotes the wife and where the wife quotes the husband