Marriage quotes

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

In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

Marriage changes everything.

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself you want to try even harder to make it work.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

Marriage is a reflection of your life in general: how you treat people, how you argue, how secure you are in your own thoughts. How vehemently do you argue your point of view? With what disdain do you view the other's point of view?

Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough.

I could be wrong, but I think heterosexual marriage is threatened more by heterosexuals. I don't know why gay marriage challenges my marriage in any way.

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.

Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?

A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

I'm most proud of the longevity of my marriage, my kids, and my grandchildren. If you don't have that, you really don't have very much.

Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?

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.

A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage, but an ex-wife is there for the rest of your life.

More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.

An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.

Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so much attention that a husband and wife, concentrating on their children, fail to notice each other's faults.