Marriage Quotes

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.

Carolyn Heilbrun

Unfenced by law, the unmarried lover can quit a bad relationship at any time. But you - the legally married person who wants to escape doomed love - may soon discover that a significant portion of your marriage contract belongs to the State, and that it sometimes takes a very long while for the State to grant you your leave.

Elizabeth Gilbert

I think marriage and athletes is a bad combination.

Dennis Rodman

I don't particularly think marriage is a sane thing.

Sean Young

Well, marriage is a very important part of our culture and our society. If we want to have a hopeful and decent society, we ought to aim for the ideal.

Karl Rove

There was no religious ceremony connected with marriage among us, while on the other hand the relation between man and woman was regarded as in itself mysterious and holy.

Charles Eastman

I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.

Bette Davis

Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.

P. J. O'Rourke

I might be celibate, but I appreciate the wonder of the sacrament of marriage.

Keith O'Brien

A woman is not to marry a man merely because she is asked, or because he is attached to her, and can write a tolerable letter.

Jane Austen

Wooing, wedding, and repenting is as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinque-pace: the first suit is hot and hasty like a Scotch jig--and full as fantastical; the wedding, mannerly modest, as a measure, full of state and ancientry; and then comes repentance and with his bad legs falls into the cinque-pace faster and faster, till he sink into his grave.

William Shakespeare

Out of control judicial activism threatens traditional marriage in America.

Ernest Istook

Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.

Menander

I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I'm all for same-sex marriage.

Tori Spelling

I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married.

Doris Lessing

Pink Floyd is like a marriage that's on a permanent trial separation.

Rick Wright

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.

Alan Keyes

I honestly believe you can never tell if a relationship is going to last. In my own marriage, which is going on 14 years, I don't think of it as 'I'm going to be with this person forever.' Instead, I think of more like, 'I'll probably be with this person for the next six weeks. Then I'll re-evaluate.'

Michael Ian Black

He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.

Alfred Lord Tennyson