Marriage Quotes - page 8

In 5,000 years of recorded human history... neither in the east or in the west... has any society ever defined marriage as anything other than between men and women. Not one in 5000 years of recorded human history. That's an astounding fact and it isn't until the last 12 years or so that we have seen for the first time in recorded human history marriage defined as anything other than between men and between women. (Michele Bachmann)
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. View quote
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Marriage is rarely bliss But, surely it would be worse As particles to pelt At thousands of miles per sec About a universe In which a lover's kiss Would either not be felt Or break the loved one's neck. View quote
W. H. Auden
My parents have a wonderful marriage, for many years. But I can't commit myself for such a long time. View quote
Kim Wilde
People are still encouraged to marry as if they could count on marriage being for life, and at the same time they are absorbing a knowledge of the great frequency of divorce. View quote
Margaret Mead
I've always felt that my relationship to the United States is analogous to a marriage. I love this country. I hate it. I get angry at it. I feel close to it. I'm charmed by it. I'm repelled by it. And it's a marriage that's gone on for let's say at least 50 years of my writing life, and in the course of that, what's happened? It's gotten worse. It's not what it used to be. View quote
Norman Mailer
[Speaking about same-sex marriage] It's about familiarity, and I think the only reason they're uncomfortable with the notion of same-sex marriages is because they haven't come into contact with gay and lesbian couples enough to understand that it's about love-and that it is a civil right. View quote
Jennifer Beals
The secret of a long marriage is shaving your legs every day... because it shows you still care. View quote
Gloria Estefan
There are pretenses which are very sincere, and marriage is their school. View quote
Miguel de Unamuno
Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking. View quote
Marvin Gaye
The phrase ‘marriage market' is used metaphorically and signifies that the mating of human populations is highly systematic and structured. (Gary Becker)
The confusing of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it. And the only possible way to accomplish this great change is to accord to women equal power in the making, shaping and controlling of the circumstances of life. View quote
Susan B. Anthony
I know you're still young, but I want you to understand and learn this now, he said. Marriage can wait, education cannot. You're a very, very bright girl. Truly, you are. You can be anything you want, Laila I know this about you. And I also know that when this war is over, Afghanistan is going to need you as much as its men, maybe even more. Because a society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated, Laila No chance. -Babi. View quote
Khaled Hosseini
Marriage can wait, education cannot. View quote
Khaled Hosseini
I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it. View quote
Nas
Marriage is about the most expensive way for the average man to get laundry done. View quote
Burt Reynolds
If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all of those things, you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does. View quote
Phil McGraw
The biggest financial pitfall in life is divorce. And the biggest reason for divorce is marriage. View quote
Gene Simmons
Friendship is the next Pleasure we may hope for: And where we find it not at home, or have no home to find it in, we may seek it abroad. It is an Union of Spirits, a Marriage of Hearts, and the Bond thereof Vertue. View quote
William Penn
We had a happy marriage because we were together all the time. We were friends as well as husband and wife. We just had a good time. (Julia Child)
In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way. View quote
Iris Murdoch
People want to believe that every marriage is perfect balance but it isn't. One person always loves more deeply than the other. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
Marriage is about compromise, it's about doing something for the other person, even when you don't want to. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
Marriage makes a man more vulnerable by doubling the expanse of sail exposed to the tempests of social life. View quote
André Maurois