Marriage Quotes

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Phyllis McGinley

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Phyllis McGinley

When a man brings his wife flowers for no reason, there's a reason.

Molly Mcgee

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Donald H. Mcgannon

I think even in a good marriage, especially if you stay together long enough, there are going to be events that happen.

Tori Amos

Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues.

Giuseppe Mazzini

There is no doubt that, as a society, we have become blase about the importance of marriage as a stabilising influence and less inclined to prize it as a worthwhile institution.

Keith O'Brien

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

Oscar Wilde

I'm also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage - which no previous society has ever believed.

Alain de Botton

I'm sorry to say my dear wife is a dreamer, and as she dreams she gets paler and leaner. Then be off to your Dream, with his fly-away hat, I stay with the girls who are happy and fat.

Stevie Smith

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

Katharine Hepburn

It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!

Douglas William Jerrold

On both 'The Bachelor' and 'The Bachelorette,' it seems like proposing marriage is equivalent to saying, 'Let's date.' Everyone knows those aren't the same things.

Patti Stanger

Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway.

Joey Adams

The problem for those who assert biblical authority in support of traditional definitions of marriage is that one could, with equal validity, assert that the lending of money or certain kinds of haircuts are forbidden by God, or that slavery and the subjugation of women are authorized by the Lord.

Jon Meacham

The first breath of adultery is the freest after it, constraints aping marriage develop.

John Updike

I feel strongly for gay marriage to be accepted.

Bernadette Peters

To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Mary Webb

So many people prefer to live in drama because it's comfortable. It's like someone staying in a bad marriage or relationship - it's actually easier to stay because they know what to expect every day, versus leaving and not knowing what to expect.

Ellen DeGeneres

Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a little learning will do, well-bread, chaste, and tender. As to religion, a moderate stock will satisfy me. She must believe in God and hate a saint.

Alexander Hamilton