Marriage Quotes

To be so bent on Marriage - to pursue a man merely for the sake of situation - is a sort of thing that shocks me; I cannot understand it. Poverty is a great Evil, but to a woman of Education and feeling it ought not, it cannot be the greatest. I would rather be a teacher at a school (and I can think of nothing worse) than marry a man I did not like.

Jane Austen

Maybe you expected marriage to be perfect - I guess that's where you and I are different. See, I thought it would be all about making mistakes, but doing it with someone who's there to remind you what you learned along the way.

Jodi Picoult

Today

Barbara Dafoe Whitehead

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.

Erika Slezak

Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.

Billy Connolly

I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.

Rachel Griffiths

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.

Kahlil Gibran

All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Raymond Hull

I love marriage.

Jeff Bridges

That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.

George Eliot

The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.

Jackie Kennedy

You know for many elected officials they all started in the same place. You know marriage is between a man and a woman, but they understand that they are moving inevitably, catching up to the American public.

James McGreevey

Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?

Samuel Butler

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Oscar Wilde

Yes, the marriage proposal was shot. Michael excluded the dialogue from the final edit.

Madeleine Stowe

I am not so much inclined to wonder that marriage is sometimes unhappy, as that it appears so little loaded with calamity; and cannot but conclude that society has something in itself eminently agreeable to human nature, when I find its pleasures so

Samuel Johnson

You -- poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are -- I entreat to accept me as a husband.

Charlotte Bronte

I took the fear of marriage from my parents' relationship, because I didn't want to end up in a relationship like that, whereas my brothers and sisters learnt a lesson from it and made sure they didn't carry it on into their own marriages.

John Mahoney

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Archie Bunker

Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes your wife.

Al Bundy