Marriage Quotes

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dr. James Dobson

Marriage, even the best marriages are tough.

Jayne Meadows

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.

Gerrit Smith

When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place.

Helen Gahagan

You can't wake up one day and say 'I'm for gay marriage,' and wake up the next day and say 'I'm against it.' Wake up one day and say, 'I'm pro-choice,' and the next day wake up and say, 'I'm pro-life.' There's no credibility there.

Roger Stone

I've always been clear, I support the traditional definition of marriage.

Stephen Harper

I believe in marriage. I believe marriage is a really important institution, it's one of the most important institutions we have.

Theresa May

I think women are natural caretakers. They take care of everybody. They take care of their husbands and their kids and their dogs, and don't spend a lot of time just getting back and taking time out.

Reese Witherspoon

And in a marriage you can't TRY and be married. You're married or you're not married... as far as I'm concerned.

Ringo Starr

Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage, and halfshut afterwards.

Benjamin Franklin

Marriage, Sir, is much more necessary to a man than to a woman; for he is much less able to supply himself with domestick comforts

Samuel Johnson

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.

NeNe Leakes

Marriage is a lot of things - a source of love, security, the joy of children, but it's also an interpersonal battlefield, and it's not hard to see why: Take two disparate people, toss them together in often-confined quarters, add the stresses of money and kids - now lather, rinse, repeat for the rest of your natural life. What could go wrong?

Jeffrey Kluger

I find it disturbing that the media keeps referring to my marriage, since I got divorced in 1979. But the media never wants to let me forget.

Bianca Jagger

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

H. L. Mencken

I refused David Letterman's proposal of marriage for obvious reasons, but thanks for asking.

Teri Garr

A sacrament--like marriage--means living a life better than your natural instincts, so that you're modeling God. And God never gives up.

Jodi Picoult

Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

P. G. [Sir Pelham Grenville] Wod

Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.

Benjamin Franklin

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Queen Victoria