Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth.
‐‐ Edwin Louis Cole
Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.
‐‐ Thomas Love Peacock
Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
‐‐ George Eliot
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
‐‐ Honore de Balzac
Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
‐‐ Ambrose Bierce
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
‐‐ Henrik Ibsen
Marriage of attraction is a gamble anyway, so you might as well marry into a family that is similar to your own, and make that much less of an adjustment. But the 'love marriage', as it is called, is equally common in India now. But it would be interesting to do a comparison of what would work better. Marriage is hard work, and it is a gamble.
‐‐ Mira Nair
Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
‐‐ Alan Arkin
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.
‐‐ Sydney Smith
Marriage seems to be predicated on protecting a very deep and intimate form of mystery.
‐‐ Lauren Groff
Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps.
‐‐ Joe Murray
Marriage should be reinforced, not redefined.
‐‐ Mike Huckabee
Marriage should be viewed as an institution ordained by God and should be out of the control of the state.
‐‐ Tony Campolo
Marriage takes work - it doesn't just happen.
‐‐ Lara Stone
Marriage to Fernando offered shelter and security, but the shackle was the price I'd pay.
‐‐ Esther Williams
Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.
‐‐ Susan B. Anthony
Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.
‐‐ Phyllis McGinley
Marriage was coined at a time when people died when they were 30. That stability would be nice, and I am definitely open-minded about it, but I don't need it in that way some women do.
‐‐ Georgina Bloomberg
Marriage was defined by God a long time ago. Marriage is almost as old as dirt, and it was defined in the garden between Adam and Eve - one man, one woman for life till death do you part. So I would never attempt to try to redefine marriage. And I don't think anyone else should either.
‐‐ Kirk Cameron
Marriage was never a destination with me.
‐‐ Diane von Furstenberg
Marriage was never a dream or an ambition for me. I thank my real mother for the fact that - unlike my sitcom mother - she never put any pressure on me or my sister to marry.
‐‐ Miranda Hart
Marriage was never my goal, because I've never been very traditional.
‐‐ Chrissy Teigen
'Marriage' was not that big a deal, to be honest! I mean, it makes life easier for technical reasons: insurance, next-of-kin stuff, joint tax filing, etc. The real shocker was falling in love with the man I'm married to. I was 32 when we met, and I had really never been in a functional relationship before, had never been deeply in love.
‐‐ Rebecca Traister
Marriage was probably the worst mistake I ever made in my life.
‐‐ Tony Dorsett
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
‐‐ John Lyly
Marriages are under strain today in terms of economics. There are social cross-currents. We see failed marriages. But it is not under attack by our gay and lesbian citizens.
‐‐ Earl Blumenauer
Marriages don't last. When I meet a guy, the first question I ask myself is: is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
‐‐ Rita Rudner
Marriages, like careers, need constant nurturing... the secret of having it all is loving it all.
‐‐ Joyce Brothers
Marriages that last are with people who do not live in Los Angeles.
‐‐ Farrah Fawcett
Married and divorced, three beautiful daughters, two in college. The other one is 16, lives with her mom. I'm 46, I've worked for the Post Office for 18 years, seven facilities in three states.
‐‐ Arthur Godfrey
Married at 23, a mother at 24, and blindsided by divorce at 28, I found myself struggling, like many young women I meet today, to strike a balance between my personal life and my career.
‐‐ Gail Sheehy
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
Married life has become to many a necessary burden, but a burden that is shed very easily.
‐‐ Mother Angelica
Married life is absolutely brilliant.
‐‐ Ronnie Wood
Married life is an existence with bars around it.
‐‐ Al Goldstein
Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.
‐‐ Richard Ford
Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.
‐‐ Aeschylus
Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die.
‐‐ Johnny Carson
Married or unmarried, young or old, poet or worker, you are still a dreamer, and will one time know, and feel, that your life is but a dream.
‐‐ Donald G. Mitchell
Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!
‐‐ Patrice Leconte
Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.
‐‐ Samuel Richardson
Married sex is like being awake during your own autopsy. It is root canal work without anesthetic.
‐‐ Al Goldstein
'Married with Children' was racy. It was sexist. It was a lot of things, but mostly it was funny.
‐‐ Katey Sagal
Married, you're basically part of the herd, and that makes life easier in a lot of ways in terms of social support. But if you're not by nature a herd animal, you start to feel like you're passing.
‐‐ Mary Gaitskill
Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things may happen to make the state but barely tolerable, when it is entered into with mutual affection.
‐‐ Samuel Richardson
Marry for Love, an Heroick Action, which makes a mighty noise in the World, partly because of its rarity, and partly in regard of its extravagancy.
‐‐ Mary Astell
Marry me and I'll never look at another horse!
‐‐ Groucho Marx
Marry Prince William? I'd love that. Who wouldn't want to be a princess?
‐‐ Britney Spears
Marry someone who flatters you. Because I've written 80 books since 'War Horse' but when my wife reads one, all she says is, 'It's quite good, but it's not as good as 'War Horse,' is it?'
‐‐ Michael Morpurgo