Marriage Quotes - page 9

Marriage is not something that can be accomplished all at once; it has to be constantly reaccomplished. A couple must never indulge in idle tranquility with the remark: "The game is won; let's relax." The game is never won. The chances of life are such that anything is possible. Remember what the dangers are for both sexes in middle age. A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day. (André Maurois)
I think that, as with marriage, you just know when it's time to have kids. View quote
Ashley Judd
I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing. View quote
Gloria Steinem
My first singing role was as Susanna in a school production in a shortened form of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro. I loved to sing and I was given lots of encouragement by a wonderful music teacher Mrs Ann Hill and by my parents who suggested I go to drama school. View quote
Elaine Paige
While the happy couple are enjoying the thrill of the rose garden, the in-laws are saying that they are just not right for each other. We keep telling them that they cannot pay couples to stay together, and it is clear that it will take more than a three-quid-a-week tax break to keep this marriage together. View quote
Harriet Harman
You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride. View quote
Jodi Picoult
Out of the frying pan into the fire! What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? No different! View quote
Angela Carter
How many women are there...who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in greater suffering than if they were slaves among the Saracens? View quote
Christine de Pizan
Marriage is too interesting an experiment to be tried only once. View quote
Eva Gabor
Love is love, but marriage is an investment. View quote
Erica Jong
The reason why women effect so little and are so shallow is because their aims are low, marriage is the prize for which they strive; if foiled in that they rarely rise above disappointment. (Sarah Grimké)
We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people. View quote
Pope Benedict XVI
Marriage? That's for life! It's like cement! View quote
Woody Allen
Male mastery in marriage is a social illusion, nurtured by women exhorting their creations to play and walk. At the emotional heart of every marriage is a pietà of mother and son. View quote
Camille Paglia
Sappho is a great poet because she is a lesbian, which gives her erotic access to the Muse. Sappho and the homosexual-tending Emily Dickinson stand alone above women poets, because poetry's mystical energies are ruled by a hierach requiring the sexual subordination of her petitioners. Women have achieved more as novelists than as poets because the social novel operates outside the ancient marriage of myth and eroticism. View quote
Camille Paglia
I always wonder why Republicans hate gay marriage, because they certainly don't hate gay prostitutes. View quote
Margaret Cho
Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays. View quote
Henny Youngman
This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry? View quote
Azar Nafisi
With a shiver of foreboding he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and social interests held together by ignorance on the one side and hypocrisy on the other. View quote
Edith Wharton
Marriage is socialism among two people. View quote
Barbara Ehrenreich
In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship. (Joseph Campbell)
Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one. View quote
Joseph Campbell
Marriage . . . is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92) View quote
Joseph Campbell
Marriage is a wonderful invention. But then again, so is the bicycle repair kit. View quote
Billy Connolly
To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable. View quote
Oscar Wilde