Marriage Quotes - page 5

I'm a man who falls in love so easily, and with such a reckless lack of consideration for the consequences of my actions, that from the very first instant of entering into a marriage I become, almost by definition, an adulterer. (Michael Chabon)
Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank. View quote
Jean de La Bruyère
Take care of him. And make him feel important. And if you can do that, you'll have a happy and wonderful marriage...Like two out of every ten couples. View quote
Neil Simon
The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters. View quote
Harold Nicolson
Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution. View quote
Bertrand Russell
His designs were strictly honorable, as the phrase is that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage. View quote
Henry Fielding
In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk. View quote
Rita Rudner
A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides they are not keeping anything back there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin. View quote
Henrik Ibsen
Though marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves em still two fools. View quote
William Congreve
Gay marriage is legal in 6 states, but having sex with a horse is legal in 23 states. Good job, America. View quote
Jim Carrey
Venus, a beautiful, good-natured lady, was the goddess of love; Juno, a terrible shrew, the goddess of marriage: and they were always mortal enemies. (Jonathan Swift)
Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset. View quote
Ann Landers
Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out and such as are out wish to get in. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain. View quote
Euripides
The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day, but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife. View quote
Barbara De Angelis
Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Love is often the fruit of marriage. View quote
Molière
Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation. View quote
Mark Twain
I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them. View quote
Barack Obama
Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage. (Sydney J. Harris)
Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious. View quote
Jean Cocteau
Marriage is the tomb of love. View quote
Giacomo Casanova
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce. View quote
Voltaire
It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both. View quote
Guy de Maupassant