Marriage Quotes: Inspiring Words on Love and Commitment (Page 2)

"Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

"Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love"

Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher

"Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate"

W. H. Auden, Poet

"Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

"What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage"

Gertrude Stein, Author

"Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution"

Mae West, Actress

"Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance"

Jane Austen, Writer

"It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage"

Jane Austen, Writer

"Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable"

Søren Kierkegaard, Philosopher

"Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

"Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest"

George Eliot, Author

"Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty"

George Eliot, Author

"Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him"

Marilyn Monroe, Actress

"Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass"

Douglas William Jerrold, Dramatist

"Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

"I never had a policy about marriage. I got married very young in life and I always think in all relationships, I've always thought that it's counterproductive to have a theory on that"

Jack Nicholson, Actor

"A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song"

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

"One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again"

Judith Viorst, Author

"It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix"

David Byrne, Musician

"After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate"

Mel Gibson, Actor

"I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman"

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Actor

"Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?"

Samuel Butler, Poet

"A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends"

Samuel Butler, Poet

"Same-sex marriage is not the future"

Maggie Gallagher, Writer

"Europe, which gave us the idea of same-sex marriage, is a dying society, with birthrates 50 percent below replacement"

Maggie Gallagher, Writer

"When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments"

Maggie Gallagher, Writer

"After a while in marriage, it doesn't work anymore. There is something missing, there is something wrong. There are few marriages that stay alive forever. We like something, and after a while, we hate what we used to love"

Monica Bellucci, Actress

"A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love"

Pearl S. Buck, Novelist

"Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself"

Pearl S. Buck, Novelist

"Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage"

John Le Carre, Author

"You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage"

Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer

"Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes"

Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer

"In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being"

Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer

"Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did"

Bette Davis, Actress

"More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed"

Rainer Maria Rilke, Poet

"My marriage is on the rocks again, yeah, my wife just broke up with her boyfriend"

Rodney Dangerfield, Comedian

"If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all of those things, you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does"

Phil McGraw, Psychologist

"Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery"

Erma Bombeck, Journalist

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