Marriage Quotations | Page 6

All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.

I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed too - for being married so many times.

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

I only gave out my opinion that same sex marriage is against the law of God.

I had been living in Ohio in my own house with my own life when my marriage abruptly came to an end. I had nowhere to go with my two sons, very little money, and not much to do in Ohio except be someone's ex-wife. My parents instantly and very generously invited my family to move back home to New York, where I could begin again.

I'm extremely fascinated by marriage. I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I'm not just going to leap into it, because that's not good for anybody.

She's been married so many times she has rice marks on her face.

It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it's separating himself from all the others.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Women are like elephants. I like to look at 'em, but I wouldn't want to own one.

My thinking is lot more different with many actresses in the industry. I don't understand why people in showbiz put their profession of acting in the back seat after marriage.

I do think there is much truth in the Young German idea that marriage is a shockingly immoral institution, as well as what we have long known it for - an extremely disagreeable one.

Righteous marriage is a commandment and an essential step in the process of creating a loving family relationship that can be perpetuated beyond the grave.

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

Husbands are like fires - they go out when unattended.

I believe in the institution of marriage, and I intend to keep trying till I get it right.

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Well you know, I think a lot of us in marriage know that you play different roles at different times. And Mitt can get very intense, and I can have the ability to kind of talk him off the rails sometimes and say, 'Hey let's look at what is really important and let's do that now.'

What sort of job can you hold in America in which it is safe to hold the personal conviction that same-sex marriage is wrong? The answer: there is no such job. Except Democratic presidential candidate in 2008. Then you're fine.

Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.

Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.

Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.

Yes, I have 'failed' at marriage - a lot.

Same-sex marriage is not the final nail in the coffin for traditional marriage. It is just another road sign toward the substitution of government for God. Every moral discussion now pits the wisest moral arbiters among us - the Supreme Court, President Obama - against traditional religion.

The quickest way to a man's heart is through his chest.

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.

Recently I read the stories I wrote in my early 20s, to put in a volume. And here is this brittle young woman, writing about marriage as, not the worst thing, but the most boring thing that could happen to a person. Now I think I was wrong. I like to be proven wrong.

Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying.

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

During last night's debate, John Kerry and John Edwards were so friendly to each other some political experts think that they may end up running together. In fact Kerry and Edwards were so friendly, President Bush accused them of planning a gay marriage.

There are times when marriage is not such a comfortable place... But you find your way; you become a different person. You grow into it. And you have to work at marriage every day.

Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.

The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

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.

My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

Well, you know, I just - I believe marriage should between a man and a woman.

At the end of the day, I know that I would rather be alone and occasionally lonely and unhappy than in a miserable marriage and lonely and unhappy all the time. I don't mind being single. In fact, I like it.

Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.

How long before we have, not just homosexual marriage, but homosexual unions between adult men and small boys?

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Certainly it may, under present imperfect conditions, often be a duty not to destroy the outward form of marriage for the sake of the children. But by no means can this duty be preached as universally binding.

When I think of the moment I knew that my marriage to Josiah would end, there were a few moments before I really, really knew. I probably knew, when I saw my ex-husband and his now wife - then colleague - having tea together in his office, that something was amiss.

I love Matthew Broderick. Call me crazy, but I love him. We can only be in the marriage we are. We're very devoted to our family and our lives. I love our life. I love that he's the father of my children, and it's because of him that there's this whole other world that I love.

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

Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.

My partner Donald Trump says that married couples should always have a prenuptial agreement. True, a prenuptial is important if one partner is much richer than the other before marriage, but Kim and I don't have one.

My first marriage was very traditional, in the church, and then we left the church and went to the reception hall. So this time, I'd like to go fairy tale all the way.

It's not marriage that I crave. Many of my friends who have married are pretty miserable. Within a year and a half, most of them are either unhappy or divorced.

I went nearly 30 years without being able to really seriously entertain marriage or a family. In fact, the word 'marriage' would actually give me a shake when it was brought up.

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

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

According to the Bible, sex isn't something sinful, but rather a wonderful gift from God to be thoroughly enjoyed within the boundaries of marriage.

I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.

If there were no immortality there would be no need for temples. There would be no need for eternal marriage if there were no eternity.

Marriage is an institution and that's where a couple finish up.

I think the government should be out of the marriage business and leave marriage to the churches.

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

Those first few years of marriage, before the war interrupted all our lives, Phil and I had a very happy time. I grew up considerably, mostly thanks to him.

I would sign an executive order protecting religious liberty, our first amendment rights, so Christian business owners and individuals don't face discrimination for having a traditional view of marriage.

Hollywood was possible for a while! Why didn't I go along with it? Well, the other things that were pulling me back were more important. Being at home, being in the same marriage, these things enabled me to go off and travel in the first place.

Being a good husband is like being a good stand-up comic - you need ten years before you can even call yourself a beginner.

Marriages don't last. When I meet a guy, the first question I ask myself is: is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?

They do not love that do not show their love.

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.

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.

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

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

In retrospect, I'm grateful for the break-up of my marriage because it forced me to deal with all the buried issues I probably wouldn't have otherwise faced. I'm a better, kinder, happier person today because of the spiritual and emotional growth I've experienced.

I'm the person that I always was, but in terms of how I approach my living, I'm not the same person at all. At all. I've buried a child, I've ended a marriage, and the grandson that I was raising is now grown. My family has totally shifted.

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

It's tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won't drink from my glass.

In my long life I have found peace, joy, and happiness beyond my fondest hopes and dreams. One of the supreme benedictions of my life has been my marriage to an elect daughter of God. I love her with all my heart and soul.

I have a theory: I believe that with the advent of the United States and the lawful definition of marriage, it was defined as between one man and one woman. It was anti-polygamy, in effect saying no man can hoard his women.

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

You don't really need to get married, but marriage is awfully nice. Everybody I know who got married, they say it really makes a difference. They feel very, very happy about it.

A lasting marriage, they say, is one where the two reach for different sections of the Sunday paper. Me, I go right for the obituaries, just like those very elderly characters in Muriel Spark's spooky novel, 'Memento Mori.'

I don't think there's anything they can say about me that I haven't said about myself already. And I would be an absolute total liar, and my fans would not respect me, if I said that my life and my marriage are perfect. But we absolutely love each other; we have fun together - it's great.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.

Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty.

We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations - we're doing everything we can to keep our marriage together.

love one another, but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.

If you've gone into a marriage and you haven't been clear about how you're going to handle money, how you want to raise kids, who is going to work or stay home or what have you, then you've set yourself up for failure.

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.

For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone.

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.

The argument that gay marriage doesn't affect straight marriages is a ridiculous red herring: Gay marriage affects society and law in dramatic ways. Religious groups will come under direct assault as federal and state governments move to strip them of their non-profit statuses if they refuse to perform gay marriages.