marriage quotes

“They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning. ”

— Clint Eastwood

“Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.”

— Marilyn Monroe

“Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.”

— Ambrose Bierce

“Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.”

— John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

“Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“I don't think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be.”

— Joel Osteen

“Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory. ”

— Abraham Lincoln

“Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.”

“I pay very little regarding to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.”

— Jane Austen

“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.”

— Jane Austen

“Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.”

— Honore de Balzac

“One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.”

— Honore de Balzac

“Love is often the fruit of marriage.”

“Books and marriage go ill together.”

“Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage. ”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms. ”

— Franz Kafka

“The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family.”

“Our Nation must defend the sanctity of marriage. ”

— George Washington Bush

“I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman. ”

— George Washington Bush

“I'm so wrapped up in my work that it's often impossible to consider other things in my life. My marriage ended in divorce because of this, my relationship with Holly has suffered by this. ”

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

— Hillary Clinton

“I have not supported same-sex marriage. I have supported civil partnerships and contractual relationships. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“Well I think in a marriage you have to be honest and ask yourself, you know, what is my role? What is my responsibility? ”

— Hillary Clinton

“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

“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

“There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.”

— Clive Staples Lewis

“Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?”

— Groucho Marx

“Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.”

— Groucho Marx

“I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.”

— Barack Obama

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