Marriage Quotes

To me marriage is for five or ten years.

Cher

If I felt, in the event of a royal wedding, inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or civil partnership, I would just be grateful to have an idea for the poem. And if I didn't, I'd ignore it.

Carol Ann Duffy

I think I'm a combination of very simple pleasures and the fact I've read a lot of books. I don't think it's a binary opposition across the board in humans and I think I'm an example that it's not. I'm hosting gay marriage rallies and I have tons of guns at home. There's a lot of middle ground in the world and I'm one of those people.

Dax Shepard

A man stays in touch with society by means of a wife.

Michael Lipsey

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Iris Murdoch

College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage.

George Gobel

The facts are plain: Religious leaders who preside over marriage ceremonies must and will be guided by what they believe. If they do not wish to celebrate marriages for same-sex couples, that is their right. The Supreme Court says so. And the Charter says so.

Paul Martin

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Zig Ziglar

I'm extremely fascinated by marriage. I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I'm not just going to leap into it, because that's not good for anybody.

Adam Levine

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Hoshang N. Akhtar

The definition of marriage cannot be disputed. It's right there in black and white and it's been the same since the start of Wikipedia.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson

Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Alexis Dupuy

My true-love hath my heart, and I have his,By just exchange, one for the other given:I hold his dear, and mine he cannot miss,There never was a better bargain driven.

Sir Philip Sidney, Song from Arc

The purpose of marriage is not to have pleasure and to be idle, but to procreate and bring up children, to support a household. This, of course, is a huge burden full of great cares and toils. But you have been created by God to be a husband or a wife that you may learn to bear these troubles. Those who have no love for children are... unworthy of being called men or women; for they despise the blessing of God, the creator and author of marriage.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Do you think your mother and I should have lived comfortably so long together, if ever we had been married? Baggage!

John Gay

Can you support the expense of a husband, hussy, in gaming, drinking and whoring? Have you money enough to carry on the daily quarrels of man and wife about who shall squander most?

John Gay

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

Oscar Wilde

I have a lot of skepticism about marriage and monogamy.

Rashida Jones

Marriage is a financial contract I have enough contracts already.

Linda Fiorentino

I tried marriage. I'm 0 for 3 with the marriage thing. So, being a ballplayer - I believe in numbers. I'm not going 0 for 4. I'm not wearing a golden sombrero.

Charlie Sheen