Marriage is a necessary evil
- Amit Abraham
Someone once said that marriage is like standing in a corridor lined with doors. You go off through your door, he goes through his, but at the end of the day you have to come back to the corridor, touch base, hold hands, because through every door are more doors, and beyond them, more again, and if you both go through too many without coming back to the corridor, you may never find your way back.
- Carrie Adams
Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway.
- Joey Adams
Well,' replied Tony, 'I think [Christ's] line would be the same as it always has been - that [sex without marriage] is understandable and forgivable, but wrong to the extent that it's less than the best.
- Richard Adams
Marriage is a game. They (the anxious and powerful) set the rules. We (the ordinary and subversive) bow obediently before those rules. And then we go home and do whatever the hell we want anyhow.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
every healthy marriage is composed of walls and windows. The windows are the aspects of your relationship that are open to the worldthat is, the necessary gaps through which you interact with family and friends; the walls are the barriers of trust behind which you guard the most intimatesecrets of your marriage.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
Marriage is those two thousand indistinguishable conversations, chatted over two thousand indistuinguishable breakfasts, where intimacy turns like a slow wheel. How do you measure the worth of becoming that familiar to somebodyso utterly well known and so thoroughly ever-present that you become an almost invisible necessity, like air?
- Elizabeth Gilbert
Maybe the difference between first marriage and second marriage is that the second time at least you know you are gambling.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
Marriage is the death of hope.
- Woody Allen
The only good thing about marriage is becoming a widow
- Isabel Allende
The chain of marriage is so heavy that it takes two to bear it; sometimes three.
- Alexandre Dumas
After a while, marriage is a sibling relationship--marked by occasional, and rather regrettable, episodes of incest.
- Martin Amis
Giving the cat a name, like marriage, is not an easy thing. Soon I experienced the selection of name for a baby, a dog, a book, a warship, a sports team, even the king, the pope or a hurricane is just child's play compared to the selection of the cat's name.
- Cleveland Amory
Whoever said marriage is boring didn't marry you!" Livia kissed his cheek. "Thank you for that."
Blake kissed her forehead. "That was okay for you?"
"No, that made my orgasms have orgasms, so it was anything but okay." She smiled.
Blake propped himself up on an elbow to stroke her face. "My beautiful wife, welcome to forever.
- Debra Anastasia
Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.
- Barbara De Angelis
Marriage is important to me and I love the idea of being married.
- Nicole Appleton
Marriage is... OK, it's rooted and grounded on love and attraction.
- Mary Archer
I'm not the marrying kind -"
St. Vincent snorted. "No man is. Marriage is a female invention.
- Lisa Kleypas
You told me you believed marriage was for other people."
"You're the only man who could make me believe that it's for me, too. Although when you get down to it, love is what's real. I still say marriage is just a piece of paper."
Jack smiled. "Let's find out," he said, and he pulled me down to the bed with him.
Jack & Ella
- Lisa Kleypas
The London season is like one of those Drury Lane melodramas in which marriage is always the ending. And no one ever seems to give any thought as to what happens after. But marriage isn't the end of the story it's the beginning. And it demands the efforts of both partners to make a success of it.
- Lisa Kleypas
Marriage is a reflection of your life in general: how you treat people, how you argue, how secure you are in your own thoughts. How vehemently do you argue your point of view? With what disdain do you view the other's point of view?
- William Shatner
You know, marriage is marriage, a partnership. You aren't the only one who needs to step up and keep one of us safe. It's my job as your wife to do the same if a time comes when I have to and it's my job to do it however that might need to come about.
- Kristen Ashley
Women joked amongst themselves: 'Why do you think a bride cries on her wedding day? It's for the love that this marriage is putting an end to for all eternity. Men may think a woman has no past- "you were born and then I married you"- but men are fools.
- Nadeem Aslam
Marriage is indeed a maneuvering business.
- Jane Austen
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
- Jane Austen
Marriage is like a formality for me.
- David Copperfield
No, I think marriage is a great thing.
- David Copperfield
When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.
- Rita Rudner
The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.
- Oscar Wilde
The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
- Oscar Wilde
The real drawback to marriage is that it makes one unselfish. And unselfish people are colourless. They lack individuality.
- Oscar Wilde
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
- Oscar Wilde
Marriage is hardly a thing that one can do now and then, Harry. Except in America, rejoined Lord Henry, languidly.
- Oscar Wilde
I believe it was Shakespeare, or possibly Howard Cosell, who first observed that marriage is very much like a birthday candle, in that 'the flames of passion burn brightest when the wick of intimacy is first ignited by the disposable butane lighter of physical attraction, but sooner or later the heat of familiarity causes the wax of boredom to drip all over the vanilla frosting of novelty and the shredded coconut of romance.' I could not have phrased it better myself.
- Dave Barry
I've always held that early marriage is a sure indication of second-rate goods that had to be sold in a hurry. - Martin Harris
- L M Montgomery
My marriage is on the rocks again, yeah, my wife just broke up with her boyfriend.
- Rodney Dangerfield
Marriage is supposed to be a partnership. Good-looking people marry good-looking people and the others take what's left.
- Alan Bennett
To us marriage is first, everything else is second.
- Julie Benz
Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.
- Thornton Wilder
The true love is unconditional.
Marriage is a conditional bond.
- Toba Beta
Second, marriage is an issue that our Founding Fathers wisely left to the states.
- Judy Biggert
Let me first state that I believe that marriage is a sacred union between one man and one woman.
- Judy Biggert
Marriage is a risk; I think it's a great and glorious risk, as long as you embark on the adventure in the same spirit.
- Cate Blanchett
Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
- Amy Bloom
Marriage is something that needs to be worked on every day. I don't know if I'm the one to give marital advice since I've only been married for a little over a year, but marriage is certainly easier if you are open, trusting and loving.
- Emily Blunt
Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.
- Bono
Marriage is for noblewomen with nothing else to do.
- Tamora Pierce
What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.
- Alain De Botton
I think the institution of marriage is a great idea, but for me it's just an idea.
- Lara Flynn Boyle
Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.
- Joyce Brothers
Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
- Katharine Hepburn
No part of marriage is the exclusive province of any one sex.
- Katharine Hepburn
Marriage is about compromise; it's about doing something for the other person, even when you don't want to.
- Nicholas Sparks
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
Marriage is to me apostasy, profanation of the sanctuary of my soul, violation of my manhood, sale of my birthright, shameful surrender, ignominious capitulation, acceptance of defeat.
- George Bernard Shaw
Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
- George Bernard Shaw
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
- George Bernard Shaw
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
- George Bernard Shaw
Marriage is the most licentious of human institutions--I say the most licentious of human institutions: that is the secret of its popularity.And a woman seeking a husband is the most unscrupulous of all the beasts of prey. The confusion of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.
- George Bernard Shaw
Our marriage is grounded in the word of God. That's really it. God is the core of our marriage, and the foundation and the blueprint for it is how we live, and being open and honest and communicating, but ultimately doing what pleases God, and not in a selfish manner.
- Candace Cameron Bure
Marriage is overdone. As long as there are people, people are going to find it interesting.
- Augusten Burroughs
....though modern Marriage is a tremendous laboratory, its members are often utterly without preparation for the partnership function. How much agony and remorse and failure could have been avoided if there had been at least some rudimentary learning before they entered the partnership....And that statement is equally valid for all relationships.
- Leo Buscaglia
I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.
- George W Bush
Traditional marriage is what should be sanctioned.
- Jeb Bush
Marriage is not about age; it's about finding the right person.
- Sophia Bush
Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
- Samuel Butler
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
- Voltaire
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
- Voltaire
Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.
- Voltaire
You know, I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman.
- Carly Fiorina
Marriage is a big word for all guys," Shane said. "You know that. It's kind of an allergy. We get itchy and sweaty just trying to spell it, much less do it.
- Rachel Caine
Marriage is like a well-built porch. If one of the two posts leans too much, the porch collapses. So each must be strong enough to stand on its own.
- Deb Caletti
To me, marriage is partly a religious thing and I'm not religious.
- Alastair Campbell
Marriage... is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92)
- Joseph Campbell
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
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
- Gilbert K Chesterton
Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.
- Gilbert K Chesterton
Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.
- Eddie Cantor
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.
- Benjamin Franklin
If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
- Johnny Carson
A woman asking "Am I good? Am I satisfied?" is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be.
- Barbara Cartland
Marriage is the tomb of love.
- Giacomo Casanova
Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit.
- Margaret Cavendish
The secret of a successful marriage is not to be at home too much.
- Colin Chapman
The heart of marriage is memories; and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns, then your marriage is a gift from the gods.
- Bill Cosby
Any good marriage is secret territory, a necessary white space on society's map. What others don't know about it is what makes it yours.
- Stephen King
In the end it was Tabby who cast the deciding vote, as she so often has at crucial moments in my life. I'd like to think I've done the same for her from time to time, because it seems to me that one of the things marriage is about is casting the tiebreaking vote when you just can't decide what you should do next.
- Stephen King
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
marriage is likely to be what is called happy if niether party ever expected to get much happiness out of it
- Bertrand Russell
To me marriage is for five or ten years.
- Cher
The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.
- Julia Child
I've never quite understood why people marry; marriage is just an invented structure.
- Julie Christie
Though this marriage is a sham, what we share tonight will be real, my lady. I said I'd treat you wi' the same respect I'd show my own true bride, and I meant it. I'd no' be able to call myself a Scotsman if I let you walk across this threshold.
- Pamela Clare
Every marriage is a mystery to me, even the one I'm in. So I'm no expert on it.
- Hillary Clinton
A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.
- Terry Pratchett
Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.
- Charles Caleb Colton
Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
- Billy Connolly
Marriage is an exercise in torture.
- Frances Conroy
I'm a little skeptical about using the Constitution this way, but I also believe marriage is between a man and a woman and that the courts shouldn't legislate this matter.
- Pete Coors
I want to focus on the importance of supporting marriage. I always speak about the need to respect everyone's human dignity - regardless of their sexual orientation. I think strengthening marriage is something that benefits everyone.
- Salvatore J Cordileone
Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
- Irwin Corey
When David Arquette and I got engaged we started therapy together. I'd heard that the first year of marriage is the hardest, so we decided to work through all that stuff early.
- Courteney Cox
This marriage is no one's business but our own.
- Bobby Darin
Marriage is an institution and that's where a couple finish up.
- Les Dawson
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
Marriage is very important. Marrying a girl is the most important thing a man can do. Never mind business or politics or sport or any of that, there's nothing so vital to the world as a man marrying a woman. That's where we get our children from, that's how the human race goes forward. And if it's too late for children, there's the companionship of a safe and trusted person.
- Frank Delaney
Marriage is the gold standard of all relationships. It's the currency by which everything is valued.
- Frank Delaney
Marriage is a religious and state issue.
- Jim Demint
Marriage is obsolete and a trap.
- Catherine Deneuve
The biggest surprise about our marriage is that Erin was out there.
- James Denton
marriage is when a man stops disappointing many women and focuses on disappointing one!
- Eric Jerome Dickey
Marriage is memory, marriage is time. Marriage is not only time: it is also, parodoxically, the denial of time.
- Joan Didion
Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.
- Franz Kafka
Marriage is not an institution. It's a relationship. Like I said I don't create institutions that's an occupation for those who want to play God. So no I'm not too big on religion and not very fond of politics or economics either. And why should I be They are the man-created trinity of terrors that ravages the earth and deceives those I care about. What mental turmoil and anxiety does any human face that is not related to one of those three
- W Paul Young
Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.
- William O Douglas
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
- Michel De Montaigne
If it's not working before you get married, marriage isn't going to fix it.
- Courtney Thorne Smith
The weaker partner in a marriage is the one who loves the most.
- Eleanora Duse
Any friendship that is worth its weight is like a dark and secret place where you hide bits of yourself. The door can be opened only by the two people who have the key, and you carry it with you wherever you go. Magnify that by a billion, and you begin to get an idea of what marriage is like.
- Damien Echols
Marriage is socialism among two people.
- Barbara Ehrenreich
The most important thing for a good marriage is to learn how to argue peaceably.
- Anita Ekberg
I think that marriage is an amazing institution and should be preserved, and you can have great marriages, and you must because sharing your life with someone is like the greatest thing. And I loved being able to set a good example for that on television.
- Jenna Elfman
Marriage is so unlike everything else. There is something even awful in the nearness it brings. Even if we loved someone else better than - than those we were married to, it would be no use. I mean, marriage drinks up all our power of giving or getting any blessedness in that sort of love. I know it may be very dear, but it murders our marriage, and then the marriage stays with us like a murder, and everything else is gone.
- George Eliot
Whoever is ashamed of marriage is also ashamed of being thought a man, or else he thinks that he can make himself better than God made him.
- Elisabeth Elliot
Look after each other. As a couple. When you have kids, you'll want to put them first. Don't. Marriage is like a plant. To keep it alive you've got to water it and feed it. If you don't, when the kids are gone, you'll look in the corner and it'll be dead.
- Nicholas Evans
I think marriage is ghastly.
- Rupert Everett
As he leans over to kiss me good night, I do not regret having graduated from the amorous sprints of our youths. Marriage is a long-distance course, and reading aloud is a kind of romantic Gatorade formulated to invigorate the occasionally exhausted racers.
- Anne Fadiman
Marriage is long enough to have plenty of room for time behind it.
- William Faulkner
A relationship is a journey and many would think the destination is marriage. Well, no it is not! Marriage is another phase of the journey.
- Olaotan Fawehinmi
Marriage is the hardest way to get a living.
- Fanny Fern
Marriage is an honorable estate and should not be used simply as an excuse for legal intercourse.
- Jasper Fforde
The marriage is over; counseling is the eulogy. The relationship autopsy is the wake.
- Suzanne Finnamore
Marriage is a conspiracy from Tiffany, florists, the diamond industry, and Christian fundamentalists. The only thing good about it is the diamond ring, the wedding gifts, and the honeymoon.
- Suzanne Finnamore
The snag about marriage is, it isn't worth the divorce.
- Suzanne Finnamore
Marriage is a financial contract; I have enough contracts already.
- Linda Fiorentino
The only constant in our marriage is the edge of the cliff we're hanging on to, killing time until we tire ourselves out and give in to our inevitable collapse.
- Elizabeth Flock
To me, marriage is the ultimate mystery.
- Gillian Flynn
But the key to our marriage is the capacity to give each other a break. And to realize that it's not how our similarities work together; it's how our differences work together.
- Michael J Fox
Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humbug.
- Max Frisch
I very much feel that marriage is a sacrament and that sacrament should extend... to that legal entity of a union between what traditionally in our Western values has been defined as between a man and a woman.
- Bill Frist
That's what marriage is good for; it makes a sacrament out of things ye'd otherwise have to confess. Jamie Fraser
- Diana Gabaldon
Marriage is too interesting an experiment to be tried only once.
- Eva Gabor
Gay marriage is going to happen. It must.
- Lady Gaga
What I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman, but what I also believe is that we have an obligation to make sure that gays and lesbians have the rights of citizenship that afford them visitations to hospitals, that allow them to be, to transfer property between partners, to make certain that they're not discriminated on the job.
- Barack Obama
I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
- Barack Obama
I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.
- Barack Obama
Europe, which gave us the idea of same-sex marriage, is a dying society, with birthrates 50 percent below replacement.
- Maggie Gallagher
Same-sex marriage is not the future.
- Maggie Gallagher
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
- Leo Tolstoy
Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking.
- Marvin Gaye
It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession
- Thomas Hardy
How do you explain the bond between man and wife? Well, for one thing, it's private. What people do in their own marriage is their own business.
- Robin Gibb
Even though marriage is doomed, if you turned it into a job you like and really work at it - it can be salvaged.
- Al Goldstein
Marriage is a million piece puzzle; a pristine and exciting pursuit at the beginning that gradually becomes a daunting task, usually more challenging than anticipated. It is only those truly committed to solving that puzzle who witness in the end the miraculous outcome of every tiny piece laid out and pressed together in an inspiring and envious creation; a treasure only time, resoluteness, and perseverance could create.
- Richelle E Goodrich
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
- Abraham Lincoln
I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.
- Billy Graham
The Bible is clear - God's definition of marriage is between a man and a woman.
- Billy Graham
Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.
- Amy Grant
Marriage is supposed to be this huge great overwhelming passion, and that we're supposed to be looking for our soulmate, our other half, but it's actually pretty damn mundane. After all the excitement goes, what you really want to be left with is someone who is a really good person and who adores you, and who you can grow old with. I know the bastards are exciting, but they don't make a good husband material.
- Jane Green
When a woman thinks her husband is a fool, her marriage is over. They may part in one year or ten; they may live together until death. But if she thinks he is a fool, she will not love him again.
- Philippa Gregory
One's lover is one's partner in observing and understanding the world. Marriage is a place where joint narratives are composed. If the lover is a liar then all your joint observations are unreliable. You will have to start all over again.
- Philippa Gregory
The secret of a good marriage is forgiving your partner for marrying you in the first place.
- Sacha Guitry
I love being in a relationship, but marriage isn't for me.
- Arsenio Hall
It couldn't be a simpler answer. Marriage doesn't really mean anything to me. I feel like in many ways marriage is more for the families of the couple than for the people involved, so I don't gravitate to it.
- Jon Hamm
I think the overriding message would be that love is serious business. True, down-to-the-crap love is not for the shallow or faint of heart. People are messy. Marriage is messy. You have to bring your best self to the game despite your limitations.
- Ka Hancock
Marriage is a custom brought about by women who then proceed to live off men and destroy them, completely enveloping the man in a destructive cocoon or eating him away like a poisonous fungus on a tree.
- Richard Harris
Our marriage is strictly in name only. It has never been consummated.
- Latoya Jackson
Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man's life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it.
- Lafcadio Hearn
Marriage is all about knowing the ins and outs and the intimate details, and your wife is supposed to be the person you know best. But my brother and I think alike, know everything about one another, and when we get together, we block everything else out. Nothing exists in our world except for us.
- Jon Heder
Marriage is actually really terrifying. It doesn't work for many people.
- Katherine Heigl
Two people can only live as one when each is prepared to give and receive trust and understanding. Above that lies respect. Without respect for how the other feels, no marriage is worthwhile.
- Helen Hollick
Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.
- E W Howe
Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.
- Washington Irving
Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
- St Jerome
Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.
- Douglas William Jerrold
Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
- George Jessel
Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.
- Jerry Seinfeld
Marriage is the dearth of sex as we know it.
- Jarod Kintz
Marriage is the chief cause of divorce.
- Groucho Marx
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
- Groucho Marx
The reason that marriage is so painful and yet wonderful is because it is a reflection of the gospel, which is painful and wonderful at once. The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.
- Timothy Keller
Marriage has the power to set the course of your life as a whole. If your marriage is strong, even if all the circumstances in your life around you are filled with trouble and weakness, it won't matter. You will be able to move out into the world in strength.
- Timothy Keller
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
- Ellen Key
Cross-cultural marriage is difficult, especially when one person has to live in another country. But I thought there was a very good chance of it working because people grow together if they have a common passion.
- Imran Khan
The purpose of marriage is not to have pleasure and to be idle, but to procreate and bring up children, to support a household. This, of course, is a huge burden full of great cares and toils. But you have been created by God to be a husband or a wife that you may learn to bear these troubles. Those who have no love for children are... unworthy of being called men or women; for they despise the blessing of God, the creator and author of marriage.
- Martin Luther
Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.
- Alan King
She married him two years ago for love, or so she thought, and he's a good enough man but a devotee of household silence. His idea of marriage is to spray WD-40 on anything that squeaks.... The quiet only subsides when Harland sleeps and his tonsils make up for lost time.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Marriage is sacred and protected and has nothing to do with violating our civil rights.
- Jack Kingston
Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature; whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to brutally oppress people and thereby violated the laws of nature.
- Jack Kingston
She can put her life in Mitch's strong hands and fall at once into a dreamless sleep. In a sense, that is what marriage is about-a good marriage-a total trusting with your heart, your mind, your life.
- Dean Koontz
When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity.
- Robert Anton Wilson
Marriage is the most expensive ticket to nowhere
- Aryn Kyle
Marriage is a team effort. Both of us share that philosophy.
- Nick Lachey
Mr. DeMille's theory of sexual difference was that marriage is an artificial state for women. The want to be taken, ruled, raped. That was his theory.
- Hedy Lamarr
A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
- Anne Lamott
Marriage is wild. I thought it was this perfect land of happiness and joy. Wrong! After you say you do, you don't for a long time.
- John Leguizamo
Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest.
- Yoko Ono
The Christian idea of marriage is based on Christ's words that a man and wife are to be regarded as a single organism - for that is what the words 'one flesh' would be in modern English. And the Christians believe that when He said this He was not expressing a sentiment but stating a fact - just as one is stating a fact when one says that a lock and its key are one mechanism, or that a violin and a bow are one musical instrument.
- C S Lewis
As Romeo and Juliet found to their cost, marriage is never just about two people falling in love, it is about families.
- Marina Lewycka
- Amit Abraham
Someone once said that marriage is like standing in a corridor lined with doors. You go off through your door, he goes through his, but at the end of the day you have to come back to the corridor, touch base, hold hands, because through every door are more doors, and beyond them, more again, and if you both go through too many without coming back to the corridor, you may never find your way back.
- Carrie Adams
Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway.
- Joey Adams
Well,' replied Tony, 'I think [Christ's] line would be the same as it always has been - that [sex without marriage] is understandable and forgivable, but wrong to the extent that it's less than the best.
- Richard Adams
Marriage is a game. They (the anxious and powerful) set the rules. We (the ordinary and subversive) bow obediently before those rules. And then we go home and do whatever the hell we want anyhow.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
every healthy marriage is composed of walls and windows. The windows are the aspects of your relationship that are open to the worldthat is, the necessary gaps through which you interact with family and friends; the walls are the barriers of trust behind which you guard the most intimatesecrets of your marriage.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
Marriage is those two thousand indistinguishable conversations, chatted over two thousand indistuinguishable breakfasts, where intimacy turns like a slow wheel. How do you measure the worth of becoming that familiar to somebodyso utterly well known and so thoroughly ever-present that you become an almost invisible necessity, like air?
- Elizabeth Gilbert
Maybe the difference between first marriage and second marriage is that the second time at least you know you are gambling.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
Marriage is the death of hope.
- Woody Allen
The only good thing about marriage is becoming a widow
- Isabel Allende
The chain of marriage is so heavy that it takes two to bear it; sometimes three.
- Alexandre Dumas
After a while, marriage is a sibling relationship--marked by occasional, and rather regrettable, episodes of incest.
- Martin Amis
Giving the cat a name, like marriage, is not an easy thing. Soon I experienced the selection of name for a baby, a dog, a book, a warship, a sports team, even the king, the pope or a hurricane is just child's play compared to the selection of the cat's name.
- Cleveland Amory
Whoever said marriage is boring didn't marry you!" Livia kissed his cheek. "Thank you for that."
Blake kissed her forehead. "That was okay for you?"
"No, that made my orgasms have orgasms, so it was anything but okay." She smiled.
Blake propped himself up on an elbow to stroke her face. "My beautiful wife, welcome to forever.
- Debra Anastasia
Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.
- Barbara De Angelis
Marriage is important to me and I love the idea of being married.
- Nicole Appleton
Marriage is... OK, it's rooted and grounded on love and attraction.
- Mary Archer
I'm not the marrying kind -"
St. Vincent snorted. "No man is. Marriage is a female invention.
- Lisa Kleypas
You told me you believed marriage was for other people."
"You're the only man who could make me believe that it's for me, too. Although when you get down to it, love is what's real. I still say marriage is just a piece of paper."
Jack smiled. "Let's find out," he said, and he pulled me down to the bed with him.
Jack & Ella
- Lisa Kleypas
The London season is like one of those Drury Lane melodramas in which marriage is always the ending. And no one ever seems to give any thought as to what happens after. But marriage isn't the end of the story it's the beginning. And it demands the efforts of both partners to make a success of it.
- Lisa Kleypas
Marriage is a reflection of your life in general: how you treat people, how you argue, how secure you are in your own thoughts. How vehemently do you argue your point of view? With what disdain do you view the other's point of view?
- William Shatner
You know, marriage is marriage, a partnership. You aren't the only one who needs to step up and keep one of us safe. It's my job as your wife to do the same if a time comes when I have to and it's my job to do it however that might need to come about.
- Kristen Ashley
Women joked amongst themselves: 'Why do you think a bride cries on her wedding day? It's for the love that this marriage is putting an end to for all eternity. Men may think a woman has no past- "you were born and then I married you"- but men are fools.
- Nadeem Aslam
Marriage is indeed a maneuvering business.
- Jane Austen
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
- Jane Austen
Marriage is like a formality for me.
- David Copperfield
No, I think marriage is a great thing.
- David Copperfield
When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.
- Rita Rudner
The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.
- Oscar Wilde
The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
- Oscar Wilde
The real drawback to marriage is that it makes one unselfish. And unselfish people are colourless. They lack individuality.
- Oscar Wilde
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
- Oscar Wilde
Marriage is hardly a thing that one can do now and then, Harry. Except in America, rejoined Lord Henry, languidly.
- Oscar Wilde
I believe it was Shakespeare, or possibly Howard Cosell, who first observed that marriage is very much like a birthday candle, in that 'the flames of passion burn brightest when the wick of intimacy is first ignited by the disposable butane lighter of physical attraction, but sooner or later the heat of familiarity causes the wax of boredom to drip all over the vanilla frosting of novelty and the shredded coconut of romance.' I could not have phrased it better myself.
- Dave Barry
I've always held that early marriage is a sure indication of second-rate goods that had to be sold in a hurry. - Martin Harris
- L M Montgomery
My marriage is on the rocks again, yeah, my wife just broke up with her boyfriend.
- Rodney Dangerfield
Marriage is supposed to be a partnership. Good-looking people marry good-looking people and the others take what's left.
- Alan Bennett
To us marriage is first, everything else is second.
- Julie Benz
Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.
- Thornton Wilder
The true love is unconditional.
Marriage is a conditional bond.
- Toba Beta
Second, marriage is an issue that our Founding Fathers wisely left to the states.
- Judy Biggert
Let me first state that I believe that marriage is a sacred union between one man and one woman.
- Judy Biggert
Marriage is a risk; I think it's a great and glorious risk, as long as you embark on the adventure in the same spirit.
- Cate Blanchett
Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
- Amy Bloom
Marriage is something that needs to be worked on every day. I don't know if I'm the one to give marital advice since I've only been married for a little over a year, but marriage is certainly easier if you are open, trusting and loving.
- Emily Blunt
Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.
- Bono
Marriage is for noblewomen with nothing else to do.
- Tamora Pierce
What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.
- Alain De Botton
I think the institution of marriage is a great idea, but for me it's just an idea.
- Lara Flynn Boyle
Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.
- Joyce Brothers
Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
- Katharine Hepburn
No part of marriage is the exclusive province of any one sex.
- Katharine Hepburn
Marriage is about compromise; it's about doing something for the other person, even when you don't want to.
- Nicholas Sparks
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
Marriage is to me apostasy, profanation of the sanctuary of my soul, violation of my manhood, sale of my birthright, shameful surrender, ignominious capitulation, acceptance of defeat.
- George Bernard Shaw
Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
- George Bernard Shaw
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
- George Bernard Shaw
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
- George Bernard Shaw
Marriage is the most licentious of human institutions--I say the most licentious of human institutions: that is the secret of its popularity.And a woman seeking a husband is the most unscrupulous of all the beasts of prey. The confusion of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.
- George Bernard Shaw
Our marriage is grounded in the word of God. That's really it. God is the core of our marriage, and the foundation and the blueprint for it is how we live, and being open and honest and communicating, but ultimately doing what pleases God, and not in a selfish manner.
- Candace Cameron Bure
Marriage is overdone. As long as there are people, people are going to find it interesting.
- Augusten Burroughs
....though modern Marriage is a tremendous laboratory, its members are often utterly without preparation for the partnership function. How much agony and remorse and failure could have been avoided if there had been at least some rudimentary learning before they entered the partnership....And that statement is equally valid for all relationships.
- Leo Buscaglia
I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.
- George W Bush
Traditional marriage is what should be sanctioned.
- Jeb Bush
Marriage is not about age; it's about finding the right person.
- Sophia Bush
Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
- Samuel Butler
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
- Voltaire
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
- Voltaire
Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.
- Voltaire
You know, I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman.
- Carly Fiorina
Marriage is a big word for all guys," Shane said. "You know that. It's kind of an allergy. We get itchy and sweaty just trying to spell it, much less do it.
- Rachel Caine
Marriage is like a well-built porch. If one of the two posts leans too much, the porch collapses. So each must be strong enough to stand on its own.
- Deb Caletti
To me, marriage is partly a religious thing and I'm not religious.
- Alastair Campbell
Marriage... is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92)
- Joseph Campbell
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
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
- Gilbert K Chesterton
Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.
- Gilbert K Chesterton
Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.
- Eddie Cantor
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.
- Benjamin Franklin
If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
- Johnny Carson
A woman asking "Am I good? Am I satisfied?" is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be.
- Barbara Cartland
Marriage is the tomb of love.
- Giacomo Casanova
Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit.
- Margaret Cavendish
The secret of a successful marriage is not to be at home too much.
- Colin Chapman
The heart of marriage is memories; and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns, then your marriage is a gift from the gods.
- Bill Cosby
Any good marriage is secret territory, a necessary white space on society's map. What others don't know about it is what makes it yours.
- Stephen King
In the end it was Tabby who cast the deciding vote, as she so often has at crucial moments in my life. I'd like to think I've done the same for her from time to time, because it seems to me that one of the things marriage is about is casting the tiebreaking vote when you just can't decide what you should do next.
- Stephen King
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
marriage is likely to be what is called happy if niether party ever expected to get much happiness out of it
- Bertrand Russell
To me marriage is for five or ten years.
- Cher
The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.
- Julia Child
I've never quite understood why people marry; marriage is just an invented structure.
- Julie Christie
Though this marriage is a sham, what we share tonight will be real, my lady. I said I'd treat you wi' the same respect I'd show my own true bride, and I meant it. I'd no' be able to call myself a Scotsman if I let you walk across this threshold.
- Pamela Clare
Every marriage is a mystery to me, even the one I'm in. So I'm no expert on it.
- Hillary Clinton
A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.
- Terry Pratchett
Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.
- Charles Caleb Colton
Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
- Billy Connolly
Marriage is an exercise in torture.
- Frances Conroy
I'm a little skeptical about using the Constitution this way, but I also believe marriage is between a man and a woman and that the courts shouldn't legislate this matter.
- Pete Coors
I want to focus on the importance of supporting marriage. I always speak about the need to respect everyone's human dignity - regardless of their sexual orientation. I think strengthening marriage is something that benefits everyone.
- Salvatore J Cordileone
Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
- Irwin Corey
When David Arquette and I got engaged we started therapy together. I'd heard that the first year of marriage is the hardest, so we decided to work through all that stuff early.
- Courteney Cox
This marriage is no one's business but our own.
- Bobby Darin
Marriage is an institution and that's where a couple finish up.
- Les Dawson
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
Marriage is very important. Marrying a girl is the most important thing a man can do. Never mind business or politics or sport or any of that, there's nothing so vital to the world as a man marrying a woman. That's where we get our children from, that's how the human race goes forward. And if it's too late for children, there's the companionship of a safe and trusted person.
- Frank Delaney
Marriage is the gold standard of all relationships. It's the currency by which everything is valued.
- Frank Delaney
Marriage is a religious and state issue.
- Jim Demint
Marriage is obsolete and a trap.
- Catherine Deneuve
The biggest surprise about our marriage is that Erin was out there.
- James Denton
marriage is when a man stops disappointing many women and focuses on disappointing one!
- Eric Jerome Dickey
Marriage is memory, marriage is time. Marriage is not only time: it is also, parodoxically, the denial of time.
- Joan Didion
Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.
- Franz Kafka
Marriage is not an institution. It's a relationship. Like I said I don't create institutions that's an occupation for those who want to play God. So no I'm not too big on religion and not very fond of politics or economics either. And why should I be They are the man-created trinity of terrors that ravages the earth and deceives those I care about. What mental turmoil and anxiety does any human face that is not related to one of those three
- W Paul Young
Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.
- William O Douglas
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
- Michel De Montaigne
If it's not working before you get married, marriage isn't going to fix it.
- Courtney Thorne Smith
The weaker partner in a marriage is the one who loves the most.
- Eleanora Duse
Any friendship that is worth its weight is like a dark and secret place where you hide bits of yourself. The door can be opened only by the two people who have the key, and you carry it with you wherever you go. Magnify that by a billion, and you begin to get an idea of what marriage is like.
- Damien Echols
Marriage is socialism among two people.
- Barbara Ehrenreich
The most important thing for a good marriage is to learn how to argue peaceably.
- Anita Ekberg
I think that marriage is an amazing institution and should be preserved, and you can have great marriages, and you must because sharing your life with someone is like the greatest thing. And I loved being able to set a good example for that on television.
- Jenna Elfman
Marriage is so unlike everything else. There is something even awful in the nearness it brings. Even if we loved someone else better than - than those we were married to, it would be no use. I mean, marriage drinks up all our power of giving or getting any blessedness in that sort of love. I know it may be very dear, but it murders our marriage, and then the marriage stays with us like a murder, and everything else is gone.
- George Eliot
Whoever is ashamed of marriage is also ashamed of being thought a man, or else he thinks that he can make himself better than God made him.
- Elisabeth Elliot
Look after each other. As a couple. When you have kids, you'll want to put them first. Don't. Marriage is like a plant. To keep it alive you've got to water it and feed it. If you don't, when the kids are gone, you'll look in the corner and it'll be dead.
- Nicholas Evans
I think marriage is ghastly.
- Rupert Everett
As he leans over to kiss me good night, I do not regret having graduated from the amorous sprints of our youths. Marriage is a long-distance course, and reading aloud is a kind of romantic Gatorade formulated to invigorate the occasionally exhausted racers.
- Anne Fadiman
Marriage is long enough to have plenty of room for time behind it.
- William Faulkner
A relationship is a journey and many would think the destination is marriage. Well, no it is not! Marriage is another phase of the journey.
- Olaotan Fawehinmi
Marriage is the hardest way to get a living.
- Fanny Fern
Marriage is an honorable estate and should not be used simply as an excuse for legal intercourse.
- Jasper Fforde
The marriage is over; counseling is the eulogy. The relationship autopsy is the wake.
- Suzanne Finnamore
Marriage is a conspiracy from Tiffany, florists, the diamond industry, and Christian fundamentalists. The only thing good about it is the diamond ring, the wedding gifts, and the honeymoon.
- Suzanne Finnamore
The snag about marriage is, it isn't worth the divorce.
- Suzanne Finnamore
Marriage is a financial contract; I have enough contracts already.
- Linda Fiorentino
The only constant in our marriage is the edge of the cliff we're hanging on to, killing time until we tire ourselves out and give in to our inevitable collapse.
- Elizabeth Flock
To me, marriage is the ultimate mystery.
- Gillian Flynn
But the key to our marriage is the capacity to give each other a break. And to realize that it's not how our similarities work together; it's how our differences work together.
- Michael J Fox
Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humbug.
- Max Frisch
I very much feel that marriage is a sacrament and that sacrament should extend... to that legal entity of a union between what traditionally in our Western values has been defined as between a man and a woman.
- Bill Frist
That's what marriage is good for; it makes a sacrament out of things ye'd otherwise have to confess. Jamie Fraser
- Diana Gabaldon
Marriage is too interesting an experiment to be tried only once.
- Eva Gabor
Gay marriage is going to happen. It must.
- Lady Gaga
What I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman, but what I also believe is that we have an obligation to make sure that gays and lesbians have the rights of citizenship that afford them visitations to hospitals, that allow them to be, to transfer property between partners, to make certain that they're not discriminated on the job.
- Barack Obama
I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
- Barack Obama
I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.
- Barack Obama
Europe, which gave us the idea of same-sex marriage, is a dying society, with birthrates 50 percent below replacement.
- Maggie Gallagher
Same-sex marriage is not the future.
- Maggie Gallagher
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
- Leo Tolstoy
Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking.
- Marvin Gaye
It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession
- Thomas Hardy
How do you explain the bond between man and wife? Well, for one thing, it's private. What people do in their own marriage is their own business.
- Robin Gibb
Even though marriage is doomed, if you turned it into a job you like and really work at it - it can be salvaged.
- Al Goldstein
Marriage is a million piece puzzle; a pristine and exciting pursuit at the beginning that gradually becomes a daunting task, usually more challenging than anticipated. It is only those truly committed to solving that puzzle who witness in the end the miraculous outcome of every tiny piece laid out and pressed together in an inspiring and envious creation; a treasure only time, resoluteness, and perseverance could create.
- Richelle E Goodrich
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
- Abraham Lincoln
I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.
- Billy Graham
The Bible is clear - God's definition of marriage is between a man and a woman.
- Billy Graham
Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.
- Amy Grant
Marriage is supposed to be this huge great overwhelming passion, and that we're supposed to be looking for our soulmate, our other half, but it's actually pretty damn mundane. After all the excitement goes, what you really want to be left with is someone who is a really good person and who adores you, and who you can grow old with. I know the bastards are exciting, but they don't make a good husband material.
- Jane Green
When a woman thinks her husband is a fool, her marriage is over. They may part in one year or ten; they may live together until death. But if she thinks he is a fool, she will not love him again.
- Philippa Gregory
One's lover is one's partner in observing and understanding the world. Marriage is a place where joint narratives are composed. If the lover is a liar then all your joint observations are unreliable. You will have to start all over again.
- Philippa Gregory
The secret of a good marriage is forgiving your partner for marrying you in the first place.
- Sacha Guitry
I love being in a relationship, but marriage isn't for me.
- Arsenio Hall
It couldn't be a simpler answer. Marriage doesn't really mean anything to me. I feel like in many ways marriage is more for the families of the couple than for the people involved, so I don't gravitate to it.
- Jon Hamm
I think the overriding message would be that love is serious business. True, down-to-the-crap love is not for the shallow or faint of heart. People are messy. Marriage is messy. You have to bring your best self to the game despite your limitations.
- Ka Hancock
Marriage is a custom brought about by women who then proceed to live off men and destroy them, completely enveloping the man in a destructive cocoon or eating him away like a poisonous fungus on a tree.
- Richard Harris
Our marriage is strictly in name only. It has never been consummated.
- Latoya Jackson
Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man's life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it.
- Lafcadio Hearn
Marriage is all about knowing the ins and outs and the intimate details, and your wife is supposed to be the person you know best. But my brother and I think alike, know everything about one another, and when we get together, we block everything else out. Nothing exists in our world except for us.
- Jon Heder
Marriage is actually really terrifying. It doesn't work for many people.
- Katherine Heigl
Two people can only live as one when each is prepared to give and receive trust and understanding. Above that lies respect. Without respect for how the other feels, no marriage is worthwhile.
- Helen Hollick
Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.
- E W Howe
Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.
- Washington Irving
Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
- St Jerome
Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.
- Douglas William Jerrold
Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
- George Jessel
Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.
- Jerry Seinfeld
Marriage is the dearth of sex as we know it.
- Jarod Kintz
Marriage is the chief cause of divorce.
- Groucho Marx
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
- Groucho Marx
The reason that marriage is so painful and yet wonderful is because it is a reflection of the gospel, which is painful and wonderful at once. The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.
- Timothy Keller
Marriage has the power to set the course of your life as a whole. If your marriage is strong, even if all the circumstances in your life around you are filled with trouble and weakness, it won't matter. You will be able to move out into the world in strength.
- Timothy Keller
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
- Ellen Key
Cross-cultural marriage is difficult, especially when one person has to live in another country. But I thought there was a very good chance of it working because people grow together if they have a common passion.
- Imran Khan
The purpose of marriage is not to have pleasure and to be idle, but to procreate and bring up children, to support a household. This, of course, is a huge burden full of great cares and toils. But you have been created by God to be a husband or a wife that you may learn to bear these troubles. Those who have no love for children are... unworthy of being called men or women; for they despise the blessing of God, the creator and author of marriage.
- Martin Luther
Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.
- Alan King
She married him two years ago for love, or so she thought, and he's a good enough man but a devotee of household silence. His idea of marriage is to spray WD-40 on anything that squeaks.... The quiet only subsides when Harland sleeps and his tonsils make up for lost time.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Marriage is sacred and protected and has nothing to do with violating our civil rights.
- Jack Kingston
Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature; whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to brutally oppress people and thereby violated the laws of nature.
- Jack Kingston
She can put her life in Mitch's strong hands and fall at once into a dreamless sleep. In a sense, that is what marriage is about-a good marriage-a total trusting with your heart, your mind, your life.
- Dean Koontz
When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity.
- Robert Anton Wilson
Marriage is the most expensive ticket to nowhere
- Aryn Kyle
Marriage is a team effort. Both of us share that philosophy.
- Nick Lachey
Mr. DeMille's theory of sexual difference was that marriage is an artificial state for women. The want to be taken, ruled, raped. That was his theory.
- Hedy Lamarr
A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
- Anne Lamott
Marriage is wild. I thought it was this perfect land of happiness and joy. Wrong! After you say you do, you don't for a long time.
- John Leguizamo
Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest.
- Yoko Ono
The Christian idea of marriage is based on Christ's words that a man and wife are to be regarded as a single organism - for that is what the words 'one flesh' would be in modern English. And the Christians believe that when He said this He was not expressing a sentiment but stating a fact - just as one is stating a fact when one says that a lock and its key are one mechanism, or that a violin and a bow are one musical instrument.
- C S Lewis
As Romeo and Juliet found to their cost, marriage is never just about two people falling in love, it is about families.
- Marina Lewycka
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