Marriage Quotes

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

~ Anna Quindlen

I feel that marriage can lead to the ultimate rejection and failure and divorce and things we all fear.

~ Mike Birbiglia

Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult.

~ Sarah Mclachlan

Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult. I blamed myself for a lot of things. It took me a very long time to get over it.

~ Sarah Mclachlan

If you've gone into a marriage and you haven't been clear about how you're going to handle money, how you want to raise kids, who is going to work or stay home or what have you, then you've set yourself up for failure.

~ Phil Mcgraw

The biggest problem in my life is trying to be the kind of man that I want to be, the father that I want to be, and how to process the failure of my marriage.

~ Ethan Hawke

It's not a failure if a marriage or partnership ends after a certain number of years. I think, in general, we expect too much of partners. We can't fulfil a person's every single need and, after ten years or so, many relationships wear out. If we were more philosophical about it, we wouldn't try to blame the other person or be bitter.

~ Deborah Moggach

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

~ Mignon Mclaughlin

The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.

~ Julia Child

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

~ Marilyn Monroe

Gay marriage - it's not about two people being gay: it's about two people who love each other and who have decided to commit to each other for the exact same reasons any other couple would get married.

~ Luke Macfarlane

The secret to a happy marriage is if you can be at peace with someone within four walls, if you are content because the one you love is near to you, either upstairs or downstairs, or in the same room, and you feel that warmth that you don't find very often, then that is what love is all about.

~ Bruce Forsyth

If a relationship is going wrong, if a marriage is going wrong, the answer cannot simply be to say, 'You can't afford to break up because you are going to lose the house.' The answer has to be only one thing, which is 'I love you.'

~ Rory Stewart

In terms of my marriage, you know, falling in love with my husband was by far the best thing that's ever happened to me.

~ Caroline Kennedy

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.

~ Ann Landers

The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.

~ Jackie Kennedy

To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.

~ Ogden Nash

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

~ Thomas Moore

When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.

~ Joseph Campbell

My worldview, my philosophy, my attitudes, my relationships, my parenting, my marriage - everything has been transformed by my relationship with Christ.

~ Lee Strobel

Children live in the only successful Marxist state ever created: the family. 'From each according to his ability, to each according to his need' is the family's practice as well as its theory. Even with today's scattershot patterns of marriage and parenting, a family is collectivist to a more than North Korean degree.

~ P. J. O'rourke

Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become.

~ Coretta Scott King

I realize that of all people, I am no expert on parenting or marriage.

~ Mika Brzezinski

In response to our fast-food culture, a 'slow food' movement appeared. Out of hurried parenthood, a move toward slow parenting could be growing. With vital government supports for state-of-the-art public child care and paid parental leave, maybe we would be ready to try slow love and marriage.

~ Arlie Russell Hochschild

I'm endlessly fascinated by parenting, marriage, my wife and the ins and outs of marriage.

~ Rob Delaney

A lasting relationship isn't about marriage. It's about compatibility and communication. And you both need to want it to work.

~ Goldie Hawn

There are many deaf people who couldn't imagine living in a marriage without someone who doesn't speak their language. For me, I believe that hearing or deaf is fine as long as both parties are willing to communicate in each other's language. But if there's no communication, then the marriage, I believe, will be difficult if not doomed.

~ Marlee Matlin

I think everyone has shame about something, whether it's a lack of a relationship with a child or maybe their weight or a lack of communication within their marriage. Everyone can relate to that because we all have something that we're like, 'God, I can work on that,' or, 'I wish I was better at doing this.'

~ Chrissy Metz

It's so important in marriage to let the little things go and let the pride go. Forgiveness is so important, and communication. Don't major on the minors.

~ Kimberly Schlapman

Psychology is much bigger than just medicine, or fixing unhealthy things. It's about education, work, marriage - it's even about sports. What I want to do is see psychologists working to help people build strengths in all these domains.

~ Martin Seligman

Olympism is the marriage of sport and culture.

~ Juan Antonio Samaranch

Neither man nor woman is perfect or complete without the other. Thus, no marriage or family, no ward or stake is likely to reach its full potential until husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, men and women work together in unity of purpose, respecting and relying upon each other's strengths.

~ Sheri L. Dew

To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?

~ Christopher Hampton

I've interviewed presidents and royalty, rock stars and movie stars, famous generals and captains of industry; I've had front row seats at Super Bowls, World Series, and Olympic Games; my books have been on best-seller lists, and my marriage is a long-running success.

~ Tom Brokaw

It is my belief that no matter how advanced man may become in science, technology, systems, and knowledge, he can never improve on the foundational precepts of marriage as the bedrock of social development.

~ Myles Munroe

To an honest judge, the alleged marriage between religion and science is a shallow, empty, spin-doctored sham.

~ Richard Dawkins

A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.

~ John C. Maxwell

My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art.

~ J. Robert Oppenheimer

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

~ John Updike

I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.

~ Kate Adie