Marriages Quotes

Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want.

I understand why marriages break up over golf. I can't even talk about my own handicap because it's too upsetting.

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

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?

I contend the state ought to do its thing and provide legal rights for all couples who want to be joined together for life. The church should bless unions that it sees fit to bless, and they should be called marriages.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Marriages that last are with people who do not live in Los Angeles.

For some of us, watching a miniseries that lasts longer than most marriages is not easy.

I treat my relationships like marriages. The ceremony isn't that important to me.

I don't know, one out of every two marriages ends up in divorce so there's a lot of great people out there who people aren't happy with.

Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.

For a romantic comedy to be three hours long, that's longer than most marriages.

Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.

If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.

I know all about cheating. I've had six very successful marriages.

All marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.

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

Lot's of marriages don't last as long as Queen have been together.

With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits.

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.

Look at all the marriages that have been wonderfully successful where fellows finished their army service and came home to go to college on G.I. bills and their wives worked.

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

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

Most Kikuyu marriages were arranged on the basis of what is described by anthropologists as the bride price.

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

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.

I think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely.

Well, marriage doesn't function in the way it used to in terms of deciding our fate, but it's in our heads, and it determines a lot of our actions. Like, right now, if you think about gay marriage - and they just started having the first gay marriages in New York - it shows what a potent idea marriage remains for people.

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.