Marriage Quotes

My parents had a wonderful marriage, but it was a very dependent relationship. My mother was entirely dependent on my father because that's how it was in those days.

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.

Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.

In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent.

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

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

It's about time we all faced up to the truth. If we accept the radical homosexual agenda, be it in the military or in marriage or in other areas of our lives, we are utterly destroying the concept of family.

Marriage, at this point in my life? I'm not interested in it. Yet. Maybe later when I'm 35 or 40.

The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we have seen, is forbidden him.

President Bush has a record of cutting taxes, has provided a prescription drug benefit for seniors, has upheld the Second Amendment and remains committed to stopping liberal activists judges who are redefining marriage.

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.

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

Let me first state that I believe that marriage is a sacred union between one man and one woman.

I've had two proposals since I've been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a lot of money.

I oppose any attempt to grant homosexual unions the same legal privileges that civil government affords to traditional marriage and family life.

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

In marriage, it's always that give and take and rebalancing that we have to do in how we can help each other. But, I have been known at times by my sons, that is the name that they call me-the Mitt stabilizer.

In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

I've always believed the two best anti-poverty programs are work and marriage.

Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.

If it's not some daring, dangerous affair, it's just not interesting, or so it seems. So, here you have two people - a famous American iconic couple - who actually like each other sexually, in marriage. Imagine.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

I've never quite understood why people marry; marriage is just an invented structure.

Whenever the people are for gay marriage or medical marijuana or assisted suicide, suddenly the "will of the people" goes out the window.

If marriage can be redefined so that it no longer means a man and a woman but two men or two women, why stop there? Why not allow three men or a woman and two men to constitute a marriage?

Every marriage is a mystery to me, even the one I'm in. So I'm no expert on it.

I haven't been faithful to my wife. Our marriage has been tainted with my infidelities. I was irresponsible.

I suffered, I really suffered, with all three of my husbands. And I tried damn hard with all three, starting each marriage certain that it was going to last until the end of my life. Yet none of them lasted more than a year or two.

But to sustain a marriage for 50 years, you have to get real a little bit and find someone who is understanding and who you can grow with. My mom always says, 'Marry the man who loves you a millimeter more.'

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.