Marriage Quotes

I learned to cook in self-defense. My wife doesn't know what a kitchen is. In the first month of our marriage, she broiled lamb chops 26 nights in a row. Then I took over. I used to mind her not caring about food, but no more - as long as I can eat what I want.

~ Alan King

Same-sex marriage is not the final nail in the coffin for traditional marriage. It is just another road sign toward the substitution of government for God. Every moral discussion now pits the wisest moral arbiters among us - the Supreme Court, President Obama - against traditional religion.

~ Ben Shapiro

I believe that all men and women are created equal, but it took our country until 1920 to acknowledge this for women. And then it took until 1964, the year before I was born, to outlaw discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. And same-sex marriage became the law of the land in 2015.

~ Brad Feld

Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage.

~ Zig Ziglar

For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.

~ Erma Bombeck

It's so important to keep a marriage alive with small treats and doing little things for each other. Just remembering to say nice things and to have listening time is vital. That ghastly phrase 'quality time' means taking three minutes to sit down and be still with someone rather than yelling over your shoulder as you rush out.

~ Joanna Lumley

Bachelors know more about women than married men if they didn't they'd be married too.

~ H. L. Mencken

We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.

~ Robin Morgan

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

~ Harriet Martineau

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.

~ Gloria Steinem

Women today have more of an overview of their lives and how marriage is or is not a part of it.

~ Helen Reddy

My husband and I are best of friends first and foremost. We fight like cats and dogs, but never stay mad for long. I was lucky to find him, he is in every way, my soulmate.

~ Carnie Wilson

I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?

~ Jackie Kennedy

A good husband makes a good wife.

~ John Florio

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

~ Martin Luther

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

~ Michel De Montaigne

Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.

~ St. Jerome

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

~ Socrates

Nobody, man or woman, has ever wrecked a good marriage.

~ Jimmy Dean

As you are not yet married, and as marriage is the fundamental state of life as well as the unity of the commonwealth, make up your mind whether you are called to this state. If you make up your mind to marry, do not marry merely a good wife: marry a good mother to your children.

~ Vincent Mcnabb

When it comes to discrimination, Americans pride ourselves on how far we've come. Racial segregation is history. Explicit sex discrimination is banned. Same-sex marriage is the law of the land. But amidst all the progress, the male-female wage gap persists, and it's big.

~ Cass Sunstein

Since the dawn of time, traditional marriage - the union between one man and one woman - has been the building block of civilization, and at no point in our nation's history has that foundation been under more severe attack than now.

~ Jim Demint

Every society in the history of man has upheld the institution of marriage as a bond between a man and a woman. Why? Because society is based on one thing: that society is based on the future of the society. And that's what? Children. Monogamous relationships.

~ Rick Santorum

Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.

~ Nicolas Chamfort

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.

~ Simone Signoret

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

~ Honoré De Balzac

After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.

~ Mel Gibson

I think long-lasting, healthy relationships are more important than the idea of marriage. At the root of every successful marriage is a strong partnership.

~ Carson Daly

Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.

~ William O. Douglas

I love the institution of marriage, and I love my marriage.

~ Kyle Chandler

Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.

~ Boris Pasternak

After 45 years of marriage, when I have an argument with my wife, if we don't agree, we do what she wants. But, when we agree, we do what I want!

~ Jacques Pepin

My mother and father had a terrible marriage. They celebrated their wedding anniversary one year with their friends. Why did they celebrate? Maybe because they had lasted so many years without killing each other.

~ Marina Abramović

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

I love marriage. I think it's a wonderful institution and it's the most important decision you make.

~ Isla Fisher

The fact that what we believe about marriage - that it should be between a man and a woman - and that we're pro-life, somehow that becomes radical? Why is that? It's because our culture has changed. But the truth is, culture may change, people change, but the Word of God never changes, and that's what we rest our belief system on.

~ Robert Jeffress

Marriage has made me a lot happier and I'm deeply in love with my wife, and I thank God for her every day.

~ Harry Connick

Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty.

~ Hubert H. Humphrey

Fear paralyses you - fear of flying, fear of the future, fear of leaving a rubbish marriage, fear of public speaking, or whatever it is.

~ Annie Lennox

I came seriously close to getting married four times, and each time I backed off in fear or for one reason or another. Each occasion was different, but in hindsight when I look at the people involved, it wasn't a bad thing what I did. I think it may have been more complex had the marriage taken place.

~ Ratan Tata