Marriage Quotes - page 11

I was like, I don't know if I can hold that promise [to wait until marriage to have sex] because this guy at camp is really cute. Sex wasn't talked about in my home, but I was a very curious young girl. (Katy Perry)
Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough. View quote
Ingrid Bergman
For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end. View quote
H. L. Mencken
Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest. View quote
H. L. Mencken
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution? View quote
H. L. Mencken
The truth is, the notion that gay marriage is harmful to marriage, is sort of mind-boggling, because these are people trying to get married. But it seems to me, if you want to defend marriage against something, defend it against divorce. View quote
Cokie Roberts
Marriage is tough, because it is woven of all these various elements, the weak and the strong. "In love-ness" is fragile for it is woven only with the gossamer threads of beauty. It seems to me absurd to talk about "happy" and "unhappy" marriages. View quote
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
In France, for instance, I'm told that marriage is now frequently contracted in seven-year terms where either party may move on when their term is up. How shallow and how different from the Europe of the past. View quote
Mitt Romney
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. View quote
Marilyn Monroe
A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores. View quote
Terry Pratchett
No candidate can win a presidential race advocating gay marriage and opposing the military action in Iraq. (Dick Morris)
Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long. View quote
Amy Grant
Love & Marriage are about work & Compromise. They're about seeing someone for what he is, being disappointed and deciding to stick around anyway. They're about commitment and comfort, not some kind of sudden, hysterical recognition. View quote
Ayelet Waldman
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. View quote
Isadora Duncan
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. View quote
Barbara De Angelis
Unable to do away with love, the Church found a way to decontaminate it by creating marriage. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
A strange effect of marriage, such as the nineteenth century has made it! The boredom of married life inevitably destroys love, when love has preceded marriage. And yet, as a philosopher has observed, it speedily brings about, among people who are rich enough not to have to work, an intense boredom with all quiet forms of enjoyment. And it is only dried up hearts, among women, that it does not predispose to love. View quote
Stendhal
The tragedy of marriage is that while all women marry thinking that their man will change, all men marry believing their wife will never change. View quote
Len Deighton
Hanging and marriage, you know, go by destiny. View quote
George Farquhar
While I am impulsive in many areas of my life, marriage is not one of them. View quote
Neil Strauss
Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising. (E. W. Howe)
Marriage is a framework to preserve friendship. It is valuable because it gives much more room to develop than just living together. It provides a base from which a person can work at understanding himself and another person. View quote
Robertson Davies
American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them. View quote
Florence King
Marriage was something I thought happened only to other people, like fatal traffic accidents. View quote
George Alec Effinger
One of the nice things about our marriage, at least to my way of thinking, is that my wife and I no longer have to argue every thing through. We each know what the other will say, and so the saying becomes an unnecessary formality. No doubt some marriage counselor would explain to us that our problem is a failure to communicate, but to my way of thinking we've worked long and hard to achieve this silence, Lily's and mine, so fraught with mutual understanding. View quote
Richard Russo