I would rather go to bed with Lillian Russell stark naked than Ulysses S Grant in full military regalia.

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

In marriage, everyday you love,and everyday you forgive.It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgiveness

An honest man may really love a pretty girl, but only an idiot marries her merely because she is pretty.

The highest love a person can have for you is to wish for you to evolve into the best person you can be.

I've had two proposals since I've been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a lot of money.

Marriage equality is about more than just marriage. It's about something greater. It's about acceptance.

I suggest that there is a splendid way out of the difficulty of marriage, and that is my way - stay out.

Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband.

Conventional wisdom tells us we'll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone.

Even with all its problems, I will support marriage as an institution until something better comes along.

Love does more than bring peace where there is conflict. It brings a different way of being in the world.

Getting married is a lot like getting into a tub of hot water. After you get used to it, it ain't so hot.

The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.

Henry VIII had so many wives because his dynastic sense was very strong whenever he saw a maid of honour.

But the fact that same-sex marriage is still an issue is insane. Thinking love knows a sex is ridiculous.

But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?

Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.

All I know is it destroyed my family, it destroyed my marriage to Sylvester and I will never get over it.

The first condition of marriage between a man and a woman is that both must belong to each other totally.

When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.

Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.

A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time.

Some women marry houses. It's another kind of skin; it has a heart, a mouth, a liver and bowel movements.

Few people who marry plan for their marriages to fail, but neither do they specifically plan for success.

When married one has to get into an argument once in a while since in this way one learns about the other.

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

Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what's going on in another person's marriage.

An anniversary says, "Think of the dreams you have weathered together. They are intimate accomplishments."

We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.

I have not supported same-sex marriage. I have supported civil partnerships and contractual relationships.

if you get married they think you're finished and if you are without a woman they think you're incomplete.

Faithfulness to your husband means sticking up for him, always building him up and never tearing him down.

It is not birth, marriage, or death, but gastrulation which is truly the most important time in your life.

I think marriage is a scary concept. It's a scary concept for anybody. I'm not sure where I sit with that.

If love means never having to say you're sorry, then marriage means always having to say everything twice.

Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.

To make a marriage work, you have to want to. If you want to stay with that person, you will. It's simple.

No one knows what a marriage is like except the two people in it - and sometimes one of them doesn't know.

Dancing along with family members and old friends, especially during a marriage, is a memorable experience.

Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.

I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.

Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.

Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.

Separate is not equal. Civil unions are civil unions. Marriage is marriage. They're different institutions.

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