Marriage Quotes

"Marriage: putting one's hand into a bag of snakes on the chance of drawing out an eel."
-Leonardo da Vinci

"Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil."
-Menander

"Marriage: a long conversation chequered by disputes."
-Robert Louis Stevenson

"Marriage is a triumph of habit over hate."
-Oscar Levant

"Marriage is socialism among two people."
-Barbara Ehrenreich

"A cynic should never marry an idealist. For the cynic, marriage represents the welcome end of romantic life, with all its agony and ecstasy. But for the idealist, it is only the beginning."
-Julie Burchill

"[The church believes abortion is a violation of God's law and takes the] biblical view of marriage, ... traditional beliefs of evangelical Christians."
-Barry Mccarty

"There is something revolting about the way girls' minds often jump to marriage long before they jump to love. And most of those minds are shut to what marriage really means."
-Dodie Smith

"Growing up in a mixed marriage home put me in the mindset that I'll believe what I want."
-Tim Campbell

"Marriage is like a coffin and each kid is like another nail."
-Dan Castellaneta

"Rooting together for Tennessee has been great for our marriage."
-Lindsey Gormley

"I've always believed the two best anti-poverty programs are work and marriage."
-James Talent

"The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open."
-Groucho Marx

"Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage."
-Ambrose Bierce

"It was a marriage of art and science. What they told us appeared to be dead-on and we haven't had any reason to question it."
-Rob Elkins

"In education, in marriage, in religion, in everything, disappointment is the lot of women. It shall be the business of my life to deepen this disappointment in every woman's heart until she bows down to it no longer."
-Lucy Stone

"I only knew Chandra Levy for five months. And in that five months' period, we never had a discussion about a future, about children, about marriage. Any of those items never came up in that five-month period."
-Gary Condit

"If you are in a marriage where your husband is handling the money and he's terrible at it, you feel you can't step in."
-Caryl Rivers

"College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage."
-George Gobel

"He said that the majority of my constituents do not support gay marriage, and he hoped that I would not succumb to the more extreme elements who were supporting the bill."
-Tom Umberg

"We will not support any candidate who supports banning gay marriage."
-Philip Davis

"Those with more faith may be less 'stressed out' about daily problems that impede success in the labor market and the marriage market, and therefore are more successful."
-Jonathan Gruber

"George Downes: Maybe there won't be marriage, maybe there won't be sex, but by God there'll be dancing!"
-My Best Friend's Wedding

"Failed to identify any constitutionally adequate reason for denying civil marriage to same-sex couples."
-Daryn Kagan

"A bill that would allow civil unions is a bill that allows same-sex marriage."
-Chuck Darrell

"My aim has always been modest; I wanted to transform the arranged marriage into a love match."
-Marcelle Ferron

"All this was prompted in the last nine months by a decision in July. We believe a marriage is between one man and one woman."
-Keith Leonard

"It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage."
-Jane Austen