Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building. - Oscar Wilde Was it possible to love a man who made you feel ridiculous? Of course [.....], love was complicated, that was all. Or was love simple, and marriage was complicated? In seventeen years of marriage David had often left her feeling frustrated, and furious, and disgusted, yes - but he had also made her feel beautiful, and protected, and loved. And oh, what she would give to feel loved right now. - Laura Brodie It was possible for couples to not discover that they are in profound disagreement over the very fundamentals of life until ten or twenty years of marriage. - Julian Fellowes You ought to be ashamed of yourself, running around, not married, staying out all night. Ashamed!" "Ashamed!" my grandmother echoed. Good to know they still agreed on things after forty-three years of marriage. - Jeaniene Frost Even divorce, she thought...

What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? - Angela Carter 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

I oppose any attempt to grant homosexual unions the same legal privileges that civil government affords to traditional marriage and family life. - Todd Akin I do not believe that defending traditional marriage between one man and one woman excludes anybody or usurps anybody's civil rights and denies anybody their civil rights. - Alan Autry Traditional marriage is what should be sanctioned. - Jeb Bush I believe in traditional marriage and I believe in the Defense of Marriage Act. - Herman Cain Traditional marriage between a man and a woman has been a cornerstone of our society for generations. If we are going to change that, it ought to be done by the will of the people. - Steve Chabot Since the dawn of time, traditional marriage - the union between one man and one woman - has been the building block of civilization, and at no point in our nation's history has that foundation been under more severe attack than now. - Jim Demint I think there are a whole host of things tha...

Maybe the difference between first marriage and second marriage is that the second time at least you know you are gambling. - Elizabeth Gilbert That Lady Russell of steady age and character, and extrememly well provided for,should have no thought of a second marriage needs no apology to the public, which is rather apt to be unreasonalbly discontented when a woman 'does' marry again,than when she does not, but Sir William's continuing in singleness requires explanation. - Jane Austen Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. - Oscar Wilde Second, marriage is an issue that our Founding Fathers wisely left to the states. - Judy Biggert I was looking very much for a career. My second marriage to Stan Herman had ended, and I wanted very much to be independent, not take alimony from him, be on my own, do the right thing. - Linda Evans When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always l...

I believe in the sanctity of marriage. - Sam Brownback Our Nation must defend the sanctity of marriage. - George W Bush How could homosexuals possibly srew up the sanctity of marriage any worse than heterosexuals? - John Grisham That is why I fought against abortion and that is why if I were still in the Senate I would be doing everything I could to defend the sanctity of marriage. - Jesse Helms The world may disagree with the Church, but the world knows very definitely with what it is disagreeing. In the future as in the past, the Church will be intolerant about the sanctity of marriage, for what God has joined together no man shall put asunder; she will be intolerant about her creed, and be ready to die for it, for she fears not those who kill the body, but rather those who have the power to cast body and soul into hell. - Fulton J Sheen

You bore me away, framed me in oak and tinsel, set me above your marriage couch. Unseen, one summer eve, you kissed me in four places. And with loving pencil you shaded my eyes, my bosom and my shame. - James Joyce I know every line of his face. The one that was carved the first year of our marriage, by laughing so often. The one that was born of worries the year he left the contracting companies to go into business for himself. The one developed from focusing hard on Nathaniel as he took his first steps, said his first words. - Jodi Picoult We're Nephilim. Every one of our life's passages has some mystical component our births, our deaths, our, marriages, everything has a ceremony and a rune. There is one as well if you wish to become someone's parabatai. It's no small commitment. - Cassandra Clare 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 ...

The Silly Putty-like malleability of the institution [marriage], in fact, is the only reason we still have the thing at all. Very few people... would accept marriage on it's thirteenth-century terms. Marriage survives, in other words, precisely because it evolves. (Though I suppose this would not be a very persuasive argument to those who probably also don't believe in evolution). - Elizabeth Gilbert I do support a constitutional amendment on marriage between a man and a woman, but I would not be going into the states to overturn their state law. - Michele Bachmann People quit on jobs. They quit on marriages. They quit on school. There's an immediacy of this day and age that doesn't lend itself to being committed to anything. - Emily Blunt If we abandon marriage, we abandon the family. - Michael Enzi It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting out of love as there is for getting in. Some people look upon marriage as a short cut that way, but...

I wanted my marriage to work, but it didn't. - Diane Abbott I was very happy in both my marriages. I was unfaithful and so were they, just like any other normal couple. - Paulo Coelho I remember saying once to my friend Susan, when my marriage was becoming intolerable, "I don't want my children growing up in a household like this." Susan said, "Why don't you leave those so-called children out of the discussion? They don't even exist yet. Why can't you just admit that you don't want to live in unhappiness anymore? - Elizabeth Gilbert I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make choices. If you want a good marriage, you must pay attention to that. If you want to be independent, go ahead. You can't have it all. - Lauren Bacall My marriage had been impulsive. That marriage should have been short-lived instead of the 23 years it spanned. - Joseph Barbera My marriage is on the ro...

When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place. - Helen Gahagan I always felt that a marriage works best at a farm... where you're together and everybody has clear-cut roles; they have chores, 'you take care of this' and you know. But it's hard. - Ethan Hawke

Why is she so stubborn? And disobedient?" Cameron barked a laugh. "Because Mackenzies always choose headstrong women. You didn't really expect her to obey you, did you? No matter what the marriage vows say? - Jennifer Ashley Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten. - Dick Gregory You think Diana would come to your bed?" Ned threw his head back and laughed. "You're mad! First of all, she would never break her marriage vows. Secondly, she's certainly deduced by now what a whoremonger you are. She wouldn't touch you with gloves, my friend." from THE DEVIL YOU KNOW (DEVIL DEVERE book #3) - Victoria Vane

Why is she so stubborn? And disobedient?" Cameron barked a laugh. "Because Mackenzies always choose headstrong women. You didn't really expect her to obey you, did you? No matter what the marriage vows say? - Jennifer Ashley The WWII generation shares so many common values: duty, honor, country, personal responsibility and the marriage vow For better or for worse--it was the last generation in which, broadly speaking, marriage was a commitment and divorce was not an option - Tom Brokaw Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten. - Dick Gregory Yvette had never talked about her marriage - she was a smart girl, and she knew you had no right to complain about someone you got all the way to the altar with. You made that choice, even if you were a child when you did it, and the marriage vow was sacred. - Maile Meloy You think Diana would come to your bed?" ...

A virgin's silence is the proper answer to a marriage proposal; it signifies a dignified consent. - Ayaan Hirsi Ali Once she made him watch Pride and Prejudice and for ages he would re-word Mr Bingley's apology to Jane Bennet, saying, 'I've been an inexplicable fool', for anything from losing his keys to burping out loud. Her reply to anything she wanted to do was Jane Bennet's response to Bingley's marriage proposal, 'A thousand times yes. - Melina Marchetta Maybe we could, um, go sit in the truck? he said, but even as he said it, it sounded so dumb. And not exactly the way he wanted her to remember a marriage proposal. - Robyn Carr He no sooner saw the woman than he saw the aftermath of her - his marriage proposal and her acceptance, the home they would set up together, the drawn rich silk curtains leaking purple light, the bed sheets billowing like clouds, the wisp of aromatic smoke winding from the chimney - only for every wrack of it - its latti...

Even when all the paperwork-a marriage license, a notarized deed, two birth certificates, and seven years of tax returns-clearly indicates you're an adult, but all the same, there you are, clutching the phone and thanking God that you're still somebody's daughter. - Kelly Corrigan Here in Hollywood you can actually get a marriage license printed on an Etch-A-Sketch. - Dennis Miller A marriage license should not be viewed as a license for a husband to forcibly rape his wife with impunity. - Sol Wachtler

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. - ...

Marriage is overdone. As long as there are people, people are going to find it interesting. - Augusten Burroughs The marriage is over; counseling is the eulogy. The relationship autopsy is the wake. - Suzanne Finnamore 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 And when I say that is certainly true, that our marriage is over. I know what else she will say: "Then you must save it." And even though I know it's hopeless- there's absolutely nothing left to save-I'm afraid if I tell her that, she'll still persuade me to try. - Amy Tan

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. - Isadora Duncan A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement. - Paul Getty A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not. - Dalton Trumbo

It is not we as individuals, then, who must bend uncomfortably around the institution of marriage; rather, it is the institution of marriage that has to bend uncomfortably around us. - Elizabeth Gilbert It may be that same-sex couples will save the institution of marriage. - Elizabeth Gilbert Protecting the institution of marriage safeguards, I believe, the American family. - John Boehner I think the institution of marriage is a great idea, but for me it's just an idea. - Lara Flynn Boyle We can practice tolerance while still holding true to cultural values that protect the institution of marriage as a union between only a man and a woman. - Ken Calvert I love the institution of marriage, and I love my marriage. - Kyle Chandler I thought we had reached an understanding, the institution of marriage and I. Weddings are like the triathalon of female friendship: the Shower, the Bachelorette Party, and the Main Event. It's the Iron Woman and most people never make it through....

And that is why marriage and family law has emphasized the importance of marriage as the foundation of family, addressing the needs of children in the most positive way. - John Boehner There is no doubt that, as a society, we have become blase about the importance of marriage as a stabilising influence and less inclined to prize it as a worthwhile institution. - Keith Obrien

In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage. - Robert Anderson I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry. - Rita Rudner Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry. - Rita Rudner The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding. - Oscar Wilde Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough. - Ingrid Bergman I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage. - Halle Berry There are guys who grow up thinking they'll settle down some distant time in the future, and there are guys who are ready for marriage as soon as they meet the right person. The former bore me, merely because they're pathetic; and the ...

Marriages are under strain today in terms of economics. There are social cross-currents. We see failed marriages. But it is not under attack by our gay and lesbian citizens. - Earl Blumenauer After three failed marriages, I know what it's like to be replaced. So that's kind of how Joey Harrington must feel today... A former No. 1 choice looks to me like he's going to be a bust in Detroit. - Terry Bradshaw While getting a haircut, I thought about my failed marriage. Instead of feeling bad, I thought I'd grow a beard, move to the mountains, and start over. - Jarod Kintz There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage. - Alexander Theroux Mom also hinted a couple of times that it was good I was going to college, since with one failed marriage behind me, I 'd have trouble landing a good husband and would need something to fall back on. "A package that's been opened once doesn't have the same appeal". - Jeannette Walls