Marriage Quotes

Somehow there was a lack of communication - She thought he said: Till debt do us part.

~ Brian Morgan

A faithful husband is one whose alimony check is always on time.

~ Anonymous

The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that two people are incompatible that is one is male and the other female.

~ Anna Quindlen

A lot of people have asked me how short I am. Since my last divorce I think I'm about a hundred thousand dollars short.

~ Mickey Rooney

My sister started to smell trouble when on the second day of her honeymoon the groom started asking for separate checks.

~ Wendy Morgan

I remember when I got married. I remember where I got married. But for the life of me I can't remember why I got married.

~ Anonymous

I've married a few people I shouldn't have but haven't we all?

~ Mamie Van Doren

Not all of his relationships were meant to end . . . Once he sent a postcard and inadvertently wrote Wish you were her.

~ Anonymous

My second ex-wife was really kind of like a ship passing in the night. Only she turned out to be the Exxon Valdez.

~ James Woods

Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.

~ Groucho Marx

Going shopping with your husband is like his going fishing with the game warden.

~ Anonymous

My wife and I had words - but I never got to use mine.

~ Fibber Mcgee

If we were in a restaurant sometimes Orpheus would look sullen and wouldn't talk to me and I thought people felt sorry for me. I should have realized that women envied me. Their husbands talked too much.But I wanted to talk to him about my notions. I was working on a new philosophical system. It involved hats.

~ Sarah Ruhl

No. She told me she was going to marry him, to get French nationality . . . She was obsessed with getting a nationality...

~ Patrick Modiano

He had no idea about the 'loving deeply' part. Scarlet was the one love he'd had. They'd married the weekend after they'd discovered they both like sangria. He'd thought they were waltzing through life and it turned out she was line dancing.

~ Jodi Thomas

I lay on the bed and shut my eyes, thinking that nobody really likes marriage, that it's a flawed arrangement, that people get enthusiastic and jump in for a hundred reasons and then, after the ceremony, after a few years, the whole deal turns into a concert they wouldn't have dreamed of attending.

~ Frederick Barthelme

Initially, after David’s diagnosis, I would cringe when I readbooks or articles by cancer survivors who stated that cancer hadbeen a gift in their lives. How could all that David endured beviewed as a gift? The invasive surgery, the weeks of chemotherapyand radiation: a gift?Yet, after the cancer, David would often reach for my hand andsay, “If it is cancer that is responsible for our new relationship, thenit was all worth it.” And I’d reluctantly agree that cancer had been agift in our lives. We’d both seen the other alternative: patients andsurvivors who had become bitter and angry, and neither one of uswanted to become that.

~ Mary Potter Kenyon

Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.

~ Robert Kiyosaki

Our marriage is between us. If we decide to continue being together or not, it's our business.

~ Gwyneth Paltrow

If the rights of civil partners are met differently in law to those of married couples, there is no discrimination in law, and if civil partnerships are seen as somehow 'second class' that is a social attitude which will change and cannot, in any case, be turned around by redefining the law of marriage.

~ John Sentamu

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

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 Carré

Marriage is the death of hope.

~ Woody Allen

The whole Haley-Nathan marriage deal was a pretty good twist huh? I hope we got all of you with it. That particular story line even suprised me when I read it, it's a good one and it'll provide for some good stories to come.

~ James Lafferty

As an actor, you just want to work, and then you just want to be on a show or have a job that you love, and you hope that job will last - those things have happened. To have that platform to then talk about something that is very personal to me like marriage equality, it feels like a gift. I try and really respect that voice and not abuse it.

~ Jesse Tyler Ferguson

It is a full time job being honest one moment at a time, remembering to love, to honor, to respect. It is a practice, a discipline, worthy of every moment.

~ Jasmine Guy

Next month, I will celebrate my 30th anniversary of marriage with my beautiful bride, Vicki. Our marriage has been a blessing. I have gained even more respect for the institution over the past 3 decades and will defend it against attack.

~ Todd Tiahrt

I want a happy marriage and whatever it takes to achieve that. But I think the main prerequisite would have to be respect. He would have to respect me and vice-versa. And, that would be more important than being in love. I think respect really goes a long way. And he would have to keep me happy. And he'd have to be very, very, secure.

~ Shilpa Shetty

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.

~ Amy Grant

I think of marriage as a garden. You have to tend to it. Respect it, take care of it, feed it. Make sure everyone is getting the right amount of, um, sunlight.

~ Mark Ruffalo

I feel very deeply about the need to respect and tolerate people of different social - or sexual orientation. But at the same time, I believe marriage should be preserved as an institution for one man and one woman.

~ Mitt Romney

I don't think there's anything they can say about me that I haven't said about myself already. And I would be an absolute total liar, and my fans would not respect me, if I said that my life and my marriage are perfect. But we absolutely love each other; we have fun together - it's great.

~ Mary J. Blige

I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that in the sanctity in the place of their religion and not bless them or solemnize them.

~ Colin Powell

I respect marriage, and I think it's beautiful that people do it. But for me, more important than anything is having a peaceful life and a peaceful home.

~ Camila Alves

I did commit to myself that I would not jump back into being the workaholic that I can be before I gave myself an honest opportunity to create the marriage of my dreams and to create the beginning of the family of my dreams, and that took a hot second.

~ Alanis Morissette

In our marriage, the success of our athletic dreams comes before everything. 'Hey do you want to watch a movie?' 'No, I have a hard workout tomorrow.'

~ Ashton Eaton

For most of us, when our 'dreams' - I use the word with reservations - came true, and marriage and motherhood became a reality, the romcoms, like horoscopes, swiftly lost their allure.

~ Mariella Frostrup

A sense of humor is great - it goes a long, long way in a marriage.

~ Chris Rock

I think that sense of humor is important in marriage. A sense of humor gets people through marriage.

~ Kyle Chandler

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

~ Gilbert K. Chesterton