Top 484 Marriage Quotes

Marriage was probably the worst mistake I ever made in my life.
Tony Dorsett
In Hungary, if homosexuals would like to live together, they can do so under the civil code. But what we call marriage is exclusively for one man and one woman. We are a Christian country. That’s a historical fact.
Viktor Orban
There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.
Alexander Theroux
I’ve got a great life. I’m in love, I have a happy, wonderful, beautiful time with my marriage, and I have a beautiful home. I want to spend time here working and creating.
Jon Anderson
Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.
Vicki Baum
The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman’s finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding.
Margaret Sanger
Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
W. H. Auden
Marriage is amazing.
Jenny Mollen
There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a ma

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
That’s my prescription for a happy marriage – marry someone who doesn’t do anything similar to what you do.
Maxine Kumin
When people say ‘marriage’ to me… It’s always a means to an end. Everyone’s so in a rush to define the relationship.
Lady Gaga
Getting divorced just because you don’t love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.
Samuel Richardson
There was never a point in my life where I gave up. My marriage, as you know, fell apart.
Deidre Hall
If the present Mrs. Wogan has a fault – and I must tread carefully here – if she has a fault, this gem in the diadem of womanhood is a hoarder. She never throws anything out. Which may explain the longevity of our marriage.
Terry Wogan
For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.
Mary Augusta Ward
I am an old fashioned guy. I want to first stand on my two feet and then start thinking about settling down. At the moment no marriage plans.
Uday Chopra
‘Marley and Me’ was a book I was proud of and believed in, but I thought it would just have a modest audience because it is such a personal story about my marriage and my family.
John Grogan
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
Socrates
My greatest concern is that Mitt Romney seldom addresses the social issues publicly… I’m referring to the sanctity of human life, the traditional definition of marriage, and religious liberty.
James Dobson
Don’t marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can’t live without.
James Dobson
Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career.
Sam Ewing
The American people are much more practical than Republican lawmakers on equal pay, on the minimum wage, on same-sex marriage, and on basic civil rights.
Luis Gutierrez
For working mothers, creating a work-life balance is critical, as we must ensure we do not neglect any significant part of our lives – our children, our family’s health, our own health and fitness, our marriage, and, of course, our careers.
Sonali Bendre
A marriage ends up being a business deal: no matter how long or short it is, somebody owes somebody money.
Goldie Hawn
If it’s not some daring, dangerous affair, it’s just not interesting, or so it seems. So, here you have two people – a famous American iconic couple – who actually like each other sexually, in marriage. Imagine.
Shelley Long
Marriage is a sacrament, and the decision of what is a sacrament lies with the Church, not with Parliament.
Jacob Rees-Mogg
The key to a happy marriage is myself being absent for long periods of time. My wife Leesa and I will celebrate our tenth wedding anniversary next year, but if my comedy gigs petered out and I was around the house more, we’d 100% be getting divorced.
Romesh Ranganathan
Marriage is a difficult project. When seven years have passed and all your body’s cells have been replaced, you’re meant to experience that seven-year itch.
Yoko Ono
After marriage, most women keep aside their aspirations and dreams as their priorities change.
Manju Warrier
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
Moliere
I am not married anymore. I hate marriage… but it’s okay now.
Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
The whole institution of marriage itself really has no place in a progressive society.
Doug Stanhope
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
Pink Floyd is like a marriage that’s on a permanent trial separation.
Rick Wright
And in a marriage you can’t TRY and be married. You’re married or you’re not married… as far as I’m concerned.
Ringo Starr
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
George Bernard Shaw
To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you’re wrong, admit it; Whenever you’re right, shut up.
Ogden Nash
What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many?
Angela Carter
When you have a baby, love is automatic, when you get m

When you have a baby, love is automatic, when you get married, love is earned.
Marie Osmond
A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
John Steinbeck
If you cannot work on the marriage or the women is a moron, staying married and cheating makes the most sense because divorce is disruptive to the family life and your bank account.
Al Goldstein
The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.
Iris Murdoch
Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
George Eliot
Marriage is an institution that existed before governments existed. It’s something that reflects nature and reflects God and God’s will for us. And both from the standpoint of faith and reason it makes all the sense in the world. And it’s beneficial for society.
Rick Santorum
Marriage is an exercise in torture.
Frances Conroy
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
Ambrose Bierce
It is so beautiful that when you watch the film, the marriage between the visuals, the music and the storytelling is seamless.
Amit Trivedi
Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.
Jerry Seinfeld
A hundred years ago, if you had a child out of marriage, you’d be a social disgrace. Today women feel comfortable enough economically and culturally to bring up a child without a recognized commitment from a man.
Helen Fisher
Basically my wife was immature. I’d be at home in the bath and she’d come in and sink my boats.
Woody Allen
A successful marriage requires commitment to teamwork.
Gad Saad
The irrationality of disgust suggests it is unreliable as a source of moral insight. There may be good arguments against gay marriage, partial-birth abortions and human cloning, but the fact that some people find such acts to be disgusting should carry no weight.
Paul Bloom
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
Peter De Vries
Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
Jean Cocteau
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Mignon McLaughlin
It’s nice to know you have support. Last night I got a marriage proposal. I just laughed.
Carrie Underwood
I think marriage is one of those things that writers draw on, one of those emotional reservoirs that go way back.
Raymond Carver
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
The activists will not stop in trying to impose their extreme views on the rest of us, and they have now plotted out a state-by-state strategy to increase the number of judicial decisions redefining marriage without the voice of the people being heard.
Jim Bunning
After marriage, the other man’s wife looks more beautiful.
Navjot Singh Sidhu
My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage.
Patrick White
I feel birth, death, marriage is destined, and these things can’t be manipulated. I have surrendered my life completely. So, whenever it happens, I will accept it.
Sakshi Tanwar
If I get married, I think I’d pick out a newspaperman rather than a millionaire. A newspaperman is a regular fellow.
Anna Held
Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.
Leonardo da Vinci
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
Abraham Lincoln
My grandfather used to write one sentence every day in his journal: ‘I love Anne more than ever today.’ I think that was his meditation – keeping him in his marriage, and also his appreciation for it. It was very touching.
Justin Theroux
Marriage isn’t a carnival ride.
Aisha Tyler
I don’t believe in the institution of marriage.
Akshaye Khanna
I tried marriage. Do I advocate it? Yes. Marriage is a wonderful institution, provided you meet the right person and you be the right person.
Pooja Bhatt
Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage

Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.
Phil Spector
Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty.
Ron Paul
The cultural expectation should be if there’s infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.
Dan Savage