Marriage Quotes

"Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them"

"The mark of a good marriage is partnership and continuing to feel inspired by your spouse. I had that with Tao. But the end is not necessarily the tragedy. Staying in a relationship that is no longer working is the tragedy. Living unhappily - that's the tragedy"

Olivia Wilde, Actress

"A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement"

Paul Getty, Businessman

"Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age"

Hesiod, Poet

"Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred"

William O. Douglas, Judge

"The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials"

Cynthia Nelms, Author

"I don't have this fantasy about marriage anymore. Everyone says it takes hard work. Well, it kind of does - and I'm much more pragmatic about romance than I used to be"

Jennifer Garner, Actress

"I'm most proud of the longevity of my marriage, my kids, and my grandchildren. If you don't have that, you really don't have very much"

Bob Newhart, Comedian

"If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam"

Johnny Carson, Comedian

"Provincial governments in Canada have terminated the positions of marriage commissioners who have, for personal religious convictions, not performed same sex marriages. It has happened in Saskatchewan"

Stockwell Day, Politician

"It was not a healthy marriage for long time. It was never about another man, it was about what my and Dennis's relationship could not sustain"

Meg Ryan, Actress

"Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there"

Paul Getty, Businessman

"Marriage commissioners who choose not to marry homosexuals are being fired. A Knights of Columbus chapter in British Columbia is in court because it chooses not allow a lesbian group to use its facility for marriage ceremonies. The list goes on"

Stockwell Day, Politician

"Bishop Frederick Henry of Calgary is facing at least two official objections to his public statements along with expensive hearings before the Alberta Human Rights Commission for expressing his biblical views on same sex marriage"

Stockwell Day, Politician

"My parents did not have a perfect marriage. It was pretty good, but it was not perfect. My marriage is not perfect. My wife is, but I happen to be imperfect. However, that does not discount the fact that the definition of marriage must be defended and protected"

Stockwell Day, Politician

"Writing and singing does give me some kind of release from the demons of my past, it is a therapy of sorts, but to be honest, my marriage played a more important role in the acceptance of myself than performance has ever done"

Michelle Shocked, Musician

"Our national media refuses to report that even the Supreme Court did not say marriage was a human right in all cases nor did it say that the heterosexual definition violated anyone's right or that the heterosexual definition of marriage was unconstitutional"

Stockwell Day, Politician

"I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily"

Paul Getty, Businessman

"I refused David Letterman's proposal of marriage for obvious reasons, but thanks for asking"

Teri Garr, Actress

"I believe marriage should be between one man and one woman. That's my view, and that'll be the view of our state because I wouldn't sign a bill that - like the one that was in New York"

Chris Christie, Politician

"Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above; this is the right time for marriage"

Hesiod, Poet

"My marriage to my husband, Bart Conner in 1996 is my proudest personal moment"

Nadia Comaneci, Athlete

"That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds"

John Updike, Novelist

"When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself"

Francois Rabelais, Clergyman

"Heather knows why and when her marriage ended with Richie and she knows why my marriage ended with Charlie"

Denise Richards, Actress

"I find it disturbing that the media keeps referring to my marriage, since I got divorced in 1979. But the media never wants to let me forget"

Bianca Jagger, Celebrity

"Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage"

Christopher Lasch, Historian

"A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit"

Anthony Trollope, Author

"The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret"

Henny Youngman, Comedian

"I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage"

Keith Richards, Musician

"Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays"

Henny Youngman, Comedian

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

Joseph Campbell, Author

"When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity"

Joseph Campbell, Author

"The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female"

Anna Quindlen, Journalist

"Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset"

Ann Landers, Journalist

"Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play"

William Congreve, Poet

"Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner"

John Updike, Novelist

"Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults"

Peter De Vries, Novelist

"In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way"

Iris Murdoch, Author

"Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability"

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Novelist

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