Famous Quotes
- Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
- Ambrose Bierce on Marriage
- Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
- Herbert Spencer on Marriage
- Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
- Robert Louis Stevenson on Marriage
- Marriage: A word which should be pronounced 'mirage'.
- Herbert Spencer on Marriage
- Marriage: love, honor, and negotiate.
- Marriage? It's like asparagus eaten with vinaigrette or hollandaise, a matter of taste but of no importance.
- Francoise Sagan on Marriage
- Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
- Married couples who work together to build and maintain a business assume broad responsibilities. Not only is their work important to our local and national economies, but their success is central to the well-being of their families.
- Melissa Bean on Marriage
- Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die.
- Johnny Carson on Marriage
- Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!
- Patrice Leconte on Marriage
- Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.
- Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr. on Marriage
- Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
- Josh Billings on Marriage
- Men act out like they're horrified by marriage, but when they find the woman of their dreams, they love it.
- Rachel Hunter on Marriage
- Men go into marriage with virtually no expectations whatsoever. Ten years later, the men are delightfully surprised to find out that it's actually kind of nice, and the women have sort of had to take a nose dive from what they thought it was going to be.
- Elizabeth Gilbert on Marriage
- Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later for another thing, they die earlier.
- H. L. Mencken on Marriage
- Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
- Rita Rudner on Marriage
- More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
- Rainer Maria Rilke on Marriage
- More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.
- Doug Larson on Marriage
- More than 1.1 million taxpayers in Pennsylvania will enjoy a lower tax rate, more than 1.4 million married couples will benefit from the reduction in the marriage penalty, and more than 1.1 million parents will have the advantage of an increased child tax credit.
- Tim Murphy on Marriage
- Most Americans don't care about gay marriage.
- Dan Savage on Marriage
- Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.
- Christopher Lasch on Marriage
- Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage.
- John Le Carre on Marriage
- Mr. DeMille's theory of sexual difference was that marriage is an artificial state for women. The want to be taken, ruled, raped. That was his theory.
- Hedy Lamarr on Marriage
- Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the definition of a marriage as between one man and one woman.
- Randy Neugebauer on Marriage
- My argument is simple, which is, that for several thousand years in Western civilization, marriage has been the union of one man and one woman. Research is overwhelming that children need mothers and fathers.
- Gary Bauer on Marriage
- My decision to end my marriage was such a risk to lose ratings and lose my fan base. I had to take that risk for my inner peace and to be happy with myself.
- Kim Kardashian on Marriage
- My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage.
- Patrick White on Marriage
- My father was a Catholic, but my mother wasn't. She had to do that weird deal you do as a Catholic - they deign to sanction your marriage and you have to bring your children up as Catholics.
- Jared Harris on Marriage
- My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20.
- Mary Wesley on Marriage
- My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage.
- Kenneth G. Wilson on Marriage
- My father was very big on marriage.
- Sidney Poitier on Marriage
- My first marriage was totally unsuitable and shouldn't have happened. It was a whirlwind, rebound thing. I was 23 or 24 - a baby.
- Carol Vorderman on Marriage
- My first marriage was very traditional, in the church, and then we left the church and went to the reception hall. So this time, I'd like to go fairy tale all the way.
- NeNe Leakes on Marriage
- My grandparents got married at a very young age, and a lot of what I think about marriage is based on their relationship.
- Kyle Chandler on Marriage
- My grandparents got married at a very young age, and a lot of what I think about marriage is based on their relationship. I watched them over the years and saw how they dealt with everything together, as a team.
- Kyle Chandler on Marriage
- My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives.
- Rita Rudner on Marriage
- My kids have moved more in their twenties, you know, than my parents have moved in nearly 40-something years of marriage before they died. So there's a part of me that laments what we have lost, and that is a sense of community.
- Mike Huckabee on Marriage
- My marriage had been impulsive. That marriage should have been short-lived instead of the 23 years it spanned.
- Joseph Barbera on Marriage
- My marriage is on the rocks again, yeah, my wife just broke up with her boyfriend.
- Rodney Dangerfield on Marriage
- My marriage to my husband, Bart Conner in 1996 is my proudest personal moment.
- Nadia Comaneci on Marriage
- My marriage was breaking up, and my marriage with Chong was breaking up. I had to come back and kind of start on my own again.
- Cheech Marin on Marriage
- My marriage? Up to now everything's okay. But it's a real marriage - imperfect and very difficult. It's all about people evolving somewhat simultaneously through their lives. I think we've emotionally evolved.
- Jamie Lee Curtis on Marriage
- My mom and my dad were married 56 years, and the fact that I reconciled with my dad I think made their marriage a little bit better as well.
- Larry Elder on Marriage
- My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
- Winston Churchill on Marriage
- My mother and stepfather were married 43 years, so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And, you know, it's just a number.
- Jamie Lee Curtis on Marriage
- My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War.
- Mikhail Baryshnikov on Marriage
- My mother, brave woman, lost her whole family when she decided to marry a black man in the '60s. When the marriage fell apart, she had to come back to her family.
- Lisa Bonet on Marriage
- My older sister was at the cusp of new wave, and I had older brothers from my father's first marriage who were rock 'n' roll guys, so I was exposed to a lot of popular culture.
- Paul Thomas Anderson on Marriage
- My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started.
- Andrew Sullivan on Marriage
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