Marry or not? Whichever you do, you will repent it.
SocratesA lady's imagination is very rapid, it jumps from admiration to love from love to matrimony in a moment
Jane AustenBy all means marry. If you get a good wife you'll become happy, if you get a bad one you'll become a philosopher.
SocratesI was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
Groucho MarxHappiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
Jane AustenSome people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight dinner soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays I go Fridays.
Henny YoungmanUltimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.
Oscar WildeIt is not a lack of love but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friedrich NietzscheIt is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife
Jane AustenMarriage is indeed a manoeuvring business.
Jane AustenLong engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.
Oscar WildeSingle women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
Jane AustenHow marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes and far more expensive.
Oscar WildeThe heart of marriage is memories, and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns, then your marriage is a gift from the gods.
Bill CosbyThe chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three.
HeraclitusBefore marriage a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage she has to hold him to make love to him.
Marilyn MonroeHe that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.
Benjamin FranklinWith me nothing goes right. My psychiatrist said my wife and I should have sex every night. Now we'll never see each other!
Rodney DangerfieldHuman nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations that a young person who either marries or dies is sure of being kindly spoken of.
Jane AustenA man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
W. Somerset MaughamMen marry because they are tired, women because they are curious, both are disappointed.
Oscar WildeWe met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.
Jane AustenMarry me and I'll never look at another horse!
Groucho MarxMarriage is neither heaven nor hell it is simply purgatory.
Abraham LincolnMy wife dresses to kill. She cooks the same way.
Henny YoungmanMarriage is an adventure, like going to war.
Gilbert K. ChestertonBachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
Samuel JohnsonThere is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.
Oscar WildeNext to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.
Jane AustenSometimes I bust out and do things so permanent. Like tattoos and marriage.
Drew BarrymoreThe secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.
Henny YoungmanMarriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.
Jerry SeinfeldWhen I attained a certain advanced intimacy with a man, and I don't just mean sex, I married him.
Hedy LamarrMarriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.
Charles Caleb ColtonThere is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.
George Bernard ShawThe world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
Oscar WildeIt's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about he goes off and gets married.
Robert FrostA happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
Andre MauroisMarriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one.
Joseph CampbellOne should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
Oscar WildeMen are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.
William ShakespeareIt's tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won't drink from my glass.
Rodney DangerfieldI've sometimes thought of marrying - and then I've thought again.
Noel CowardMarriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.
Leonardo da VinciMy being charming, Harriet, is not quite enough to induce me to marry, I must find other people charming - one other person at least.
Jane AustenThe proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to.
P. J. O'RourkeThe one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
Oscar WildeI believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.
Billy GrahamI've been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out she'll kill me.
Henny YoungmanThe average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman, and have a French boyfriend.
Katharine HepburnKeep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
Benjamin FranklinFor it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest, that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us, but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
H. L. MenckenWords and pictures are yin and yang. Married, they produce a progeny more interesting than either parent.
Dr. SeussBigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
Oscar WildeLet me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments.
William ShakespeareMaids want nothing but husbands and when they have, them they want everything.
William ShakespeareTwo things I do value a lot, intimacy and the capacity for joy, didn't seem to be on anyone else's list. I felt like the stranger in a strange land and decided I'd better not marry the natives.
Richard BachMarriage is one long conversation chequered by disputes.
Robert Louis StevensonThere is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.
Oscar WildeWhy do Jewish divorces cost so much? They're worth it.
Henny YoungmanI think if I'm 40 and I don't have any kids and I'm not married I would have a baby artificially inseminated. I would feel like Mary - like Jesus is my baby.
Kim KardashianMany a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.
William ShakespeareA marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
Andre MauroisWhere there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
Benjamin FranklinPolitics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.
Groucho MarxThat married couples can live together day after day is a miracle that the Vatican has overlooked.
Bill CosbyMarriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.
Pope John Paul III think same sex couples should be able to get married.
Barack ObamaMarriage is not a love affair. A love affair is a totally different thing. A marriage is a commitment to that which you are. That person is literally your other half. And you and the other are one. A love affair isn Joseph Campbell
My wife and I tried to breakfast together but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked
Winston ChurchillI 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 PowellAs to marriage or celibacy let a man take which course he will he will be sure to repent.
SocratesI opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying.
Barack ObamaThere is hidden or flaunted a sword between the sexes, till an entire marriage reconciles them.
C. S. LewisTake my wife... Please!
Henny YoungmanMarriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
George Bernard ShawWhen 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 CampbellI think there are a whole host of things that are civil rights and then there are other things - such as traditional marriage - that I think express a community's concern and regard for a particular institution.
Barack ObamaWe live in grief for having left the womb for having left the teat then school then home. In my case it was leaving marriages and the death of my wife.
William ShatnerNever take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
Benjamin FranklinI think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerWhen marrying ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
Friedrich NietzscheMy marriage is on the rocks again yeah my wife just broke up with her boyfriend.
Rodney DangerfieldFor some of us watching a miniseries that lasts longer than most marriages is not easy.
Erma BombeckMarriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
Honore de BalzacI 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 MorissetteIf there is such a thing as a good marriage it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
Michel de MontaigneDivorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe however that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.
VoltaireI tried marriage. I'm 0 for 3 with the marriage thing. So being a ballplayer - I believe in numbers. I'm not going 0 for 4. I'm not wearing a golden sombrero.
Charlie SheenI hate failure, and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally.
Lucille BallOur Nation must defend the sanctity of marriage.
George W. BushFriendship is the marriage of the soul and this marriage is liable to divorce.
VoltaireI'm 0 for 3 with marriage - the scoreboard doesn't lie never has. So what we all have is a marriage of the heart. To sully or contaminate or radically disrespect this union with a shameful contract is something that I will leave to the amateurs and the Bible grippers.
Charlie SheenWhat I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman but what I also believe is that we have an obligation to make sure that gays and lesbians have the rights of citizenship that afford them visitations to hospitals that allow them to be to transfer property between partners to make certain that they're not discriminated on the job.
Barack ObamaWhen you make the sacrifice in marriage you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
Joseph CampbellRemember that children marriages and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.The Bible is clear - God's definition of marriage is between a man and a woman.
Billy GrahamThe real act of marriage takes place in the heart not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make / not just on your wedding day but over and over again / and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.
Barbara de AngelisMarriage is a very good thing but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
W. Somerset MaughamLittle children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
George EliotWhenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.
H. L. MenckenA man's friendships are like his will invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
Samuel ButlerI don't think marriage is a civil right but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.
Barack ObamaThere is no more lovely friendly and charming relationship communion or company than a good marriage.
Martin LutherDivorce is probably as painful as death.
William ShatnerCulture what you believe what you value how you live matters. Now as fundamental as these principles are they may become topics of democratic debates from time to time so it is today with the enduring institution of marriage. Marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman.
Mitt RomneyMy decision to end my marriage was such a risk to lose ratings and lose my fan base. I had to take that risk for my inner peace and to be happy with myself.
Kim KardashianMarriage is the death of hope.
Woody AllenMy view is that marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman. That's the position I've had for some time and I don't intend to make any adjustments at this point... Or ever by the way.
Mitt RomneyI love the concept of togetherness and the entwinement of marriage.
William ShatnerA wise man should marry a virgin of a respectable family even if she is deformed. He should not marry one of a low-class family through beauty. Marriage in a family of equal status is preferable.
ChanakyaYou can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition, but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes or staring when you were in a fit of laughter would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
Robert Louis StevensonMr. DeMille's theory of sexual difference was that marriage is an artificial state for women. The want to be taken, ruled, raped. That was his theory.
Hedy LamarrI don't think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be.
Joel OsteenFriendship is two-sided. It isn't a friend just because someone's doing something nice for you. That's a nice person. There's friendship when you do for each other. It's like marriage - it's two-sided.
John WoodenMarriage is like life - it is a field of battle not a bed of roses.
Robert Louis StevensonMarriage is not a love affair. A love affair is a totally different thing. A marriage is a commitment to that which you are. That person is literally your other half. And you and the other are one. A love affair isn Joseph Campbell
Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
Samuel ButlerLet us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.
Bill CosbyAll tragedies are finished by a death All comedies are ended by a marriage
Lord ByronWell I think in a marriage you have to be honest and ask yourself you know what is my role? What is my responsibility?
Hillary ClintonShe's been married so many times she has rice marks on her face.
Henny YoungmanKings speak for once men of learning once and the daughter is given in marriage once. All these things happen once and only once.
ChanakyaMarriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
George EliotMarriage is a wonderful institution but who would want to live in an institution?
H. L. MenckenMarriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
Robert Louis StevensonMarriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather altogether incalculable.
Soren KierkegaardIn Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the groom.
Groucho MarxYou can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?
Benjamin FranklinMarriage n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master a mistress and two slaves making in all two.
Ambrose BierceNever again!! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough.
Ingrid BergmanI think like any marriage especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you want to try even harder to make it work.
Princess DianaMarriage a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
Michel de MontaigneThe ceremony took six minutes. The marriage lasted about the same amount of time though we didn't get a divorce for almost a year.
Hedy LamarrA good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de MontaigneEvery marriage is a mystery to me even the one I'm in. So I'm no expert on it.
Hillary ClintonLove is often the fruit of marriage.
MoliereA man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.
Francis BaconI didn't want to be one of those women who wake up at 63 years old and realize they've missed the window of opportunity for marriage and children.
Alanis MorissetteIn marriage a man becomes slack and selfish and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
Robert Louis StevensonA successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
Andre MauroisThey say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.
Clint EastwoodMarriage means your whole life a whole lifetime together not just a few days or a few weeks or a few years.
Sai BabaMore belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
Rainer Maria RilkeMarriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
George Bernard ShawStaying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.
P. J. O'RourkeMarriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
George Bernard ShawI believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.
George W. BushIt is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should refuse an offer of marriage
Jane AustenCourtship is to marriage as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
William CongreveThe appropriate age for marriage is around eighteen for girls and thirty-seven for men.
AristotleThe details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family.
EminemA successful marriage requires falling in love many times always with the same person.
Mignon McLaughlinMarriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and of our miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant of interest easy and where both meet happy. A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship all the enjoyments of sense and reason and
Joseph AddisonLove: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
Ambrose BierceWe sleep in separate rooms we have dinner apart we take separate vacations - we're doing everything we can to keep our marriage together.
Rodney Dangerfield'Mr. Churchill if you were my husband I'd poison your tea!' - And if you were my wife I would drink it!
Winston ChurchillMarriage is a great institution but I'm not ready for an institution.
Mae WestThere's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.
Clint EastwoodMarriage is the torment of one the felicity of two the strife and enmity of three.
Washington IrvingMarriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
Katharine HepburnIf we must lose wife or husband when we live to our highest right we lose an unhappy marriage as well and we gain ourselves. But if a marriage is born between two already self-discovered what a lovely adventure begins hurricanes and all.
Richard BachThere is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
Henry David ThoreauPerhaps my problem in marriage-and it is the problem of many women-was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk yet both needs are important to a marriage.
Hedy LamarrThere were three of us in this marriage so it was a bit crowded.
Princess DianaMarriage is not a noun, it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.
Barbara de AngelisMarriage is like a cage, one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally desperate to get out.
Michel de MontaigneLike me the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians.
Mitt RomneyGay marriage is going to happen. It must.
Lady GagaMarriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for go live with a car battery.
Erma BombeckNot cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.
Marcus Tullius CiceroIn married life three is company and two none.
Oscar WildeMarriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.
Bertrand RussellWit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.
Mark TwainIt does not appear to me that my hand is unworthy your acceptance or that the establishment I can offer would be any other than highly desirable.
Jane AustenOne should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
Honore de BalzacThere may be good but there are no pleasant marriages.
Rainer Maria RilkeWhat is marriage is marriage protection or religion is marriage renunciation or abundance is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.
Gertrude SteinHaving federal officials whether judges bureaucrats or congressmen impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty.
Ron PaulBrought up to respect the conventions love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.
Bette DavisWoman or more precisely put perhaps marriage is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.
Franz KafkaWhen you make a sacrifice in marriage you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
Joseph CampbellAnd let me make this very clear - unlike President Obama I will not raise taxes on the middle class. As president I will protect the sanctity of life. I will honor the institution of marriage. And I will guarantee America's first liberty: the freedom of religion.
Mitt RomneyMarriage changes everything.
Marilyn MansonI 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 RomneyOnly choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
Joseph JoubertAn affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.
Bette DavisI have not supported same-sex marriage. I have supported civil partnerships and contractual relationships.
Hillary ClintonMarriage is a great institution.
Elizabeth TaylorI believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually our constitutions expand liberties they don't contract them.
Barack ObamaMany marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.
Zig ZiglarBooks and marriage go ill together.
Moliere