Marriage Quotes

156. The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

^{Peter De Vries}

157. I think it’s something that needs to be said – that there are interracial marriages out there, and the couples live happy lives, and there’s nothing wrong with it.

^{Tia Mowry}

158. I very much feel that marriage is a sacrament and that sacrament should extend… to that legal entity of a union between what traditionally in our Western values has been defined as between a man and a woman.

^{Bill Frist}

159. The only good husbands stay bachelors: They’re too considerate to get married.

^{Finley Peter Dunne}

160. Protecting the institution of marriage safeguards, I believe, the American family.

^{John Boehner}

161. Yes, I am seeking a husband. As soon as the right man asks me, I shall say, ‘It is not good for a woman to live alone.’

^{Anna Held}

162. If I get married, I think I’d pick out a newspaperman rather than a millionaire. A newspaperman is a regular fellow.

^{Anna Held}

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

^{Arnold Schwarzenegger}

164. Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can’t sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can’t sleep with the window open.

^{George Bernard Shaw}

165. The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they’re right if you love to be with them all the time.

^{Julia Child}

166. 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}

167. Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

^{Marcus Tullius Cicero}

168. It was a perfect marriage. She didn’t want to and he couldn’t.

^{Spike Milligan}

169. Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

^{Thomas Moore}

170. Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.

^{Mark Twain}

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

^{Leonardo da Vinci}

172. Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.

^{Simone Signoret}

173. Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage.

^{Zig Ziglar}

174. May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise.

^Rumi

175. Friendship is two-sided. It isn’t a friend just because someone’s doing something nice for you. That’s a nice person. There’s friendship when you do for each other. It’s like marriage – it’s two-sided.

^{John Wooden}

176. Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

^Voltaire

177. I refused David Letterman’s proposal of marriage for obvious reasons, but thanks for asking.

^{Teri Garr}

178. Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.

^{Boris Pasternak}

179. Marriage is the death of hope.

^{Woody Allen}

180. I support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us.

^{Kinky Friedman}

181. Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

^{Marilyn Monroe}

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

^{Joe Rogan}

183. Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.

^{Douglas William Jerrold}

184. 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}

185. In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

^{William Penn}

186. The great marriages are partnerships. It can’t be a great marriage without being a partnership.

^{Helen Mirren}

187. Marriage is about the most expensive way for the average man to get laundry done.

^{Burt Reynolds}

188. Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

^{William Shakespeare}

189. After about 20 years of marriage, I’m finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.

^{Mel Gibson}

190. There is no clear place to draw the line once you eliminate the traditional marriage, and it’s the same once you start putting limits on what guns can be used, then it’s just really easy to have laws that make them all illegal.

^{Louie Gohmert}

191. Marriage is the tomb of love.

^{Giacomo Casanova}

192. Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

^{Gabriel Garcia Marquez}

193. Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.

^{Robert Kiyosaki}

194. Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking.

^{Marvin Gaye}

195. Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.

^{Susan B. Anthony}

196. Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.

^{Henrik Ibsen}

197. Marriage is an institution and that’s where a couple finish up.

^{Les Dawson}

198. Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.

^{Dick Gregory}

199. Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.

^{William Congreve}

200. I was a Christian. I didn’t want to have sex before marriage, I was a bit uptight and not very self-confident. I was a virgin until I was 26.

^{Jimmy Carr}

Marriage Quotes 201 – 300

201. 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}

202. I think one reason for a successful marriage is laughter. I think laughter gets you through the rough moments in a marriage.

^{Bob Newhart}

203. Marriage is not all rainbows and butterflies; you have to give in to your partner’s whims every now and then, and that’s a two-way street.

^{Asha Parekh}

204. The more time you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes.

^{Amy Grant}

205. Dancing along with family members and old friends, especially during a marriage, is a memorable experience.

^{The Great Khali}

206. What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many?

^{Angela Carter}

207. The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny.

^{Nikola Tesla}

208. Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

^{George Eliot}

209. I was against gay marriage until I realized I didn’t have to get one.

^{James Carville}