Marriage Quotes

If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.

Mignon McLaughlin

What made marriage so difficult back then was yet again that instigator of so many other sorts of heartbreak: the oversize brain.

Kurt Vonnegut

Marriage is an institution and that's where a couple finish up.

Les Dawson

I've had an exciting time I married for love and got a little money along with it.

Rose Kennedy

Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.

Jane Austen

I suffered, I really suffered, with all three of my husbands. And I tried damn hard with all three, starting each marriage certain that it was going to last until the end of my life. Yet none of them lasted more than a year or two.

Ava Gardner

It's nice to be able to work I'd love to be able to do another TV show I could do in Chicago so I could live and work in the same place. It's hard being a parent and being in a good marriage, and it all takes a lot of work, but if you're not there you can't do any of it.

Joan Cusack

Marriage feels like an industry with catering and really expensive bands.

Rashida Jones

After marriage, the other man's wife looks more beautiful.

Navjot Singh Sidhu

I think it's unfortunate that there exists only one path in America to complete social legitimacy, and that is marriage. I think, for instance, that it would be far easier for Americans to elect a black president or a female president than an unmarried president.

Elizabeth Gilbert

The marriage didn't work out but the separation is great.

Liz Smith

For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both.

Katey Sagal

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Matthew Prior

A woman asking 'Am I good? Am I satisfied?' is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be.

Barbara Cartland

In marriage, it's always that give and take and rebalancing that we have to do in how we can help each other. But, I have been known at times by my sons, that is the name that they call me-the Mitt stabilizer.

Ann Romney

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

Pope John Paul II

If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Gary Smalley

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Red Skelton

I love being in a relationship, but marriage isn't for me.

Arsenio Hall

All I know is it destroyed my family, it destroyed my marriage to Sylvester and I will never get over it.

Brigitte Nielsen