Marriage Quotes

I had only two offers of marriage in my life, and I refused both.

Catherine Helen Spence

Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Hillary Clinton

I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriage between persons in which there can be traced the most distant relationship. I go for the improvement instead of the deterioration of our race.

Ezra Cornell

Writing and singing does give me some kind of release from the demons of my past, it is a therapy of sorts, but to be honest, my marriage played a more important role in the acceptance of myself than performance has ever done.

Michelle Shocked

There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.

Clint Eastwood

There would be more good marriages if the marriage partners didn't live together.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Some pray to marry the man they love, my prayer will somewhat vary; I humbly pray to Heaven above that I love the man I marry.

Rose Pastor Stokes

A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

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A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

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Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

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Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Sammy Cahn

She'd have you spew up what you've drunk when you were out.

Caecilius

I found marriage somewhat stifling. I don't know that I am the kind of man who ought to be married.

Burt Lancaster

In that second it dawned on me that I had been living here for eight years with a strange man and had borne him three children.

Henrik Ibsen

In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That's a thought I'll never endure! Never.

Henrik Ibsen

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Henrik Ibsen

If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable.

George Ade

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

Mae West

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day, but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Barbara de Angelis