Top 484 Marriage Quotes

I suffered from a mild case of postpartum depression after my second child and the physical challenge of maintaining an overnight shift at CBS, a marriage, and two in diapers made the symptoms worse and everyone in the house paid the price.
Mika Brzezinski
The marriage of computing and connectivity without the shackles of being tethered to a location is one of the biggest disruptive forces of modern times.
Om Malik
Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
Katharine Hepburn
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.
Simone Signoret
I think there is a generation gap. I personally look forward to, as our generation becomes the leaders, you are gonna see a change, and I think hopefully gay marriage will be a part of that country.
Vanessa Kerry
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
Herbert Spencer
The only way marriage can work is if a man respects the woman and she is a thinking woman and he wants to work on the marriage.
Al Goldstein
I think marriage is all about timing.
Cate Blanchett
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
Honore de Balzac
I always remembered that when I saw people get married they got on a rocketship and went to Planet Happiness, Population: Them.
Marc Webb
Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There’s immense happiness that can come from working towards that.
Nick Cave
I’m 0 for 3 with marriage – the scoreboard doesn’t lie, never has. So what we all have is a marriage of the heart. To sully or contaminate or radically disrespect this union with a shameful contract is something that I will leave to the amateurs and the Bible grippers.
Charlie Sheen
Marriage has changed things. I have my own family now.
Lin Dan
Regarding marriage, it – somehow, it didn’t happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
For me working on the marriage and not making the easy choice of cheating was something that I could not do.
Al Goldstein
Nobody, man or woman, has ever wrecked a good marriage.
Jimmy Dean
The president strongly believes that marriage in this country ought to be between a man and a woman. He also believes it is something that ought to be decided by the people. He doesn’t believe that judges ought to impose their will on the people.
Ken Mehlman
The truth is that cleaning up socks and trying to get someone to really listen to you is marriage. It’s less sweep you off your feet and more sweep the kitchen four times a day. Like everything good in life, it’s 98% back-breaking work and 2% moments that make the work worthwhile.
Glennon Doyle Melton
There are powerful emotions that bring two people together in wonderful harmony in a marriage. Satan knows this, and would tempt you to try these emotions outside of marriage. Do not stir emotions meant to be used only in marriage.
Richard G. Scott
But the key to our marriage is the capacity to give each other a break. And to realize that it’s not how our similarities work together; it’s how our differences work together.
Michael J. Fox
I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
Gloria Steinem
No persons professing to be Christians should enter the marriage relation until the matter has been carefully and prayerfully considered from an elevated standpoint, to see if God can be glorified by the union.
Ellen G. White
Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.
P. J. O’Rourke
I’d have gone berserk if I hadn’t met Sargam Singh, an actress who soon became my wife. Within a year of our marriage our daughter Ameli was born. Sargam gave up her career to look after me and our daughter.
Abhimanyu Singh
I like getting married, but I don’t like being married.
Don Adams
A relationship can only work if you work at it. Marriage is the most difficult thing you will do – you’ve got to really love each other to enjoy the same jokes, the same odours, the same behaviours every day.
Lenny Henry
In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don’t baptize the children of single mothers because they weren’t conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today’s hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation.
Pope Francis
We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we ‘enter into the holy estate of matrimony.’
Nancy Pearcey
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I have married thriteen couples. I’m about to do a marriage next month.
Sally Kirkland
Riding a bicycle is the summit of human endeavour – an almost neutral environmental effect coupled with the ability to travel substantial distances without disturbing anybody. The bike is the perfect marriage of technology and human energy.
Jeremy Corbyn
I think marriage and athletes is a bad combination.
Dennis Rodman
Bishop Frederick Henry of Calgary is facing at least two official objections to his public statements along with expensive hearings before the Alberta Human Rights Commission for expressing his biblical views on same sex marriage.
Stockwell Day
I’d marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he’d be dead within a year.
Bette Davis
I honestly believe you can never tell if a relationship is going to last. In my own marriage, which is going on 14 years, I don’t think of it as ‘I’m going to be with this person forever.’ Instead, I think of more like, ‘I’ll probably be with this person for the next six weeks. Then I’ll re-evaluate.’
Michael Ian Black
I’m proud of who I am. I am proud of my husband and our marriage.
Pete Buttigieg
Adultery – which is the only grounds for divorce in New York – is not grounds for divorce in California. As a matter of fact, adultery in Southern California is grounds for marriage.
Allan Sherman
Marriage is an institution and that’s where a couple finish up.
Les Dawson
‘Safe Harbor’ is a state of mind… it’s the place – in reality or metaphor – to which one goes in times of trouble or worry. It can be a friendship, marriage, church, garden, beach, poem, prayer, or song.
Luanne Rice
When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl – and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to – which you can’t deny is the penalty of marriage.
Queen Victoria
I like marriage. The idea.
Toni Morrison
The two most important words in marriage for me are ‘yes, dear.’
Eric Close
Marriage is an institution, and you must be fully committed to it.
Gene Simmons
Before, back in the ’50s, women didn’t have as many rights as men, so they had to be that stay-at-home wife and take care of the kids all day. But now, with marriage, it’s a partnership. It’s not like this old traditional marriage that it once was.
Kendra Wilkinson
I should have been out there having a wild time like all the other girls my age, but I wasn’t. I was going home every night to what was, initially, a very happy marriage.
Amanda Holden
Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth.
Edwin Louis Cole
People say, ‘What’s the secret to a marriage?’ There’s no secret – I think you get lucky.
Steve Carell
Traditional marriage between a man and a woman has been a cornerstone of our society for generations. If we are going to change that, it ought to be done by the will of the people.
Steve Chabot
When our children obey the Lord and go to the temple to receive their blessings and enter into the marriage covenant, they enter into the same order of the priesthood that God instituted in the very beginning with father Adam.
Ezra Taft Benson
I do not support a constitutional amendment to prohibit gay marriage.
Corrine Brown
Marriage is something I’d recommend everyone to try, if you find the right person, of course.
Vidya Balan
Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
Samuel Johnson
Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.
J. B. Priestley
The writing partnership is a good collaboration for the same reason the marriage works, which is two people who can stand alone choosing to stand together.
Ann Maxwell
When I was being sold into marriage, it was hard to see a future for myself.
Sonita Alizadeh
The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.
Denis Diderot
Gay marriage is going to happen. It must.
Lady Gaga
I love marriage. I failed at marriage, but I’d rather go into anything with gusto and fail than go into it half-assed.
Kirstie Alley
There may be people in my audience who may not agree with me on some particular issue – you know, say, as a gun owner, they may not agree with me, or, you know, someone may not agree with me on a gay marriage topic. Any of those things. But those shouldn’t be the reasons you listen to my music.
Brad Paisley
On the question of marriage, as in all other respects, Lutheranism is a compromise, a bridge between two logical views of the universe: the Catholic-Christian and the Individualistic Monist. And bridges are made to go over, not to stand upon.
Ellen Key
Sometimes divorce is better than marriage.

Sometimes divorce is better than marriage.
Sumner Redstone
Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye.
P. J. O’Rourke
Marriage is a financial contract; I have enough contracts already.
Linda Fiorentino
My thoughts are that marriage is between a man and a woman.
Ben Carson
Someone asked me recently if marriage is 50-50 – it averages out to be 50-50, but sometimes it’s 75-25, sometimes it’s 90-10. In the end, it has to average out to be 50-50; that’s how you support each other.
Linda McMahon