Marriage Quotes

Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When I first started talking about gay marriage, most people in the gay community looked at me as if I was insane or possibly a fascist reactionary.

Andrew Sullivan

Same-sex marriage would eliminate entirely in law the basic idea of a mother and a father for every child. It would create a society which deliberately chooses to deprive a child of either a mother or a father.

Keith O'Brien

He tried to give his wife pleasure in little ways, because he had come to realize, after nearly two decades together, how often he disappointed her in the big things. It was never intentional. They simply had very different notions of what ought to take up most space in life.

J.K. Rowling

Marriage used to be bondage and still is in some places. That's disconcerting.

James Dye

Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so much attention that a husband and wife, concentrating on their children, fail to notice each other's faults.

Richard Armour

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

Samuel Johnson

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

Never stay in a bad marriage, and don't hang around with psycho coke fiends.

Joe Rogan

Well, marriage doesn't function in the way it used to in terms of deciding our fate, but it's in our heads, and it determines a lot of our actions. Like, right now, if you think about gay marriage - and they just started having the first gay marriages in New York - it shows what a potent idea marriage remains for people.

Jeffrey Eugenides

What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.

Alain de Botton

I thought the divorce statistics would never apply to me. I was beyond heartbroken when they did. But I got up and got on with it. I also kept my belief in marriage.

Jennifer Garner

By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.

Saint Augustine of Hippo

My decision to end my marriage was such a risk to lose ratings and lose my fan base. I had to take that risk for my inner peace and to be happy with myself.

Kim Kardashian

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the definition of a marriage as between one man and one woman.

Randy Neugebauer

Let me be clear. I support the definition of marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

Ben Nelson

When you have a baby, love is automatic, when you get married, love is earned.

Marie Osmond

I am much more open to plural marriage than I was before, and I now support it in certain situations. I do believe it is right for some people. But our example in America today is gross abuse - I can't support it in fundamentalist compounds.

Ginnifer Goodwin

I had a happy marriage and a nice wife. I accomplished everything you can. What more can you want?

Max Schmeling

My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War.

Mikhail Baryshnikov