- Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.
Jackie Kennedy
- I would say that the surest measure of a man’s or a woman’s maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.
Benjamin Spock
- I do think the secret to a good marriage is separate bathrooms.
Heather Dubrow
- Sticking with a marriage. That’s true grit, man.
Jeff Bridges
- 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
- I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
Gloria Steinem
- An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring… I ought to know.
Bette Davis
- I never looked at my parents’ marriage or really anyone who had been married more than 30 years and thought, ‘I gotta get me some of that!’
Mike Birbiglia
- First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment.
Maximilian Schell
- I’ve always been clear, I support the traditional definition of marriage.
Stephen Harper
- Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.
Washington Irving
- When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity.
Robert Anton Wilson
- People say, ‘What’s the secret to a marriage?’ There’s no secret – I think you get lucky.
Steve Carell
- For me, personally, marriage is a man and a woman living together.
Angela Merkel
- A marriage doesn’t have to be perfect, but you can be perfect for each other.
Jessica Simpson
- There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.
Martin Luther
- After marriage, every woman wants to settle down and have children. I have no regrets. I was occupied in my little world, enjoying each and every experience that came my way.
Sridevi
- 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
- We want our marriage to be a triumph, not a tragedy.
Joyce Meyer
- Even before marriage I used cook delicious dishes for my wife and mother-in-law on Jamai Sasthi.
Kharaj Mukherjee
- That is why I fought against abortion and that is why if I were still in the Senate I would be doing everything I could to defend the sanctity of marriage.
Jesse Helms
- It was the only ambition I ever had – not to be a dancer or Hollywood movie star, but to be a housewife in a good marriage.
Doris Day
- In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
Robert Louis Stevenson
- As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
Socrates
- I don’t want to go into a marriage just because of my age – too many people make that mistake. But of course I’d like to be married one day – I dream of having children because I adore kids so, so much.
Shilpa Shetty
- If we abandon marriage, we abandon the family.
Michael Enzi
- The truth is you can have a great marriage, but there are still no guarantees.
Demi Moore
- To an honest judge, the alleged marriage between religion and science is a shallow, empty, spin-doctored sham.
Richard Dawkins
- May these vows and this marriage be blessed.
Rumi
- When people get married because they think it’s a long-time love affair, they’ll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.
Joseph Campbell
- Marriage is not a noun; it’s a verb. It isn’t something you get. It’s something you do. It’s the way you love your partner every day.
Barbara De Angelis
- Marriage has changed things. I have my own family now.
Lin Dan
- I couldn’t bear a marriage in which one partner hinges on the other.
Clive Owen
- Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland
- I don’t know if I believe in marriage. I believe in family, love and children.
Penelope Cruz
- I feel that whoever isn’t feeling settled in their career won’t think about their marriage.
Ram Charan
- My parents are conservative. They really weren’t in support of us dating before marriage.
Aishwarya R. Dhanush
- Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.
Voltaire
- There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.
Alexander Theroux
- The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
Oscar Wilde
- The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
Peter De Vries
- To me marriage is for five or ten years.
Cher
- Same-sex marriage is not the final nail in the coffin for traditional marriage. It is just another road sign
- I have never been given to envy – save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily.
J. Paul Getty
- A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
Queen Victoria
- If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
Johnny Carson
- That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.
John Updike
- She got the magazine on a Wednesday morning, and on Thursday announced our marriage was over.
David Gest
- There’s no formula that can make a marriage work. Sometimes two people just click.
Rishi Kapoor
- The two most important words in marriage for me are ‘yes, dear.’
Eric Close
- I’ve often thought if I didn’t make my marriage work, I would have failed at my one true shot at happiness.
Bethenny Frankel
- The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- I’m the only man in the world with a marriage licence made out to whom it may concern.
Mickey Rooney
- I have gone from one relationship to a marriage and stepchildren.
Daryl Hall
- 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
- But I wanted marriage for myself. I was not calculating about it. I wish I was more calculating.
Linda McCartney