Marriage Quotes

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Dude, marriage is the 'get out of loneliness free' card in the Monopoly game of life.

You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.