Quotes on Marriage

The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.

Marriage 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.

Marriage fascinates me: how we negotiate its span, how we change within it, how it changes itself, and why some relationships survive and others do not. There isn't a single marriage that couldn't provide enough narrative arc for a novel.

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

I married beneath me. All women do.

In the enriching of marriage, the big things are the little things. There must be constant appreciation for each other and thoughtful demonstration of gratitude. A couple must encourage and help each other grow. Marriage is a joint quest for the good, the beautiful, and the divine

What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that.

Happiness is being at peace, being with loved ones, being comfortable...but most of all, it's having those loved ones.

Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one.

When people say 'marriage' to me... It's always a means to an end. Everyone's so in a rush to define the relationship.

I think we will have full marriage rights in Colorado. But in 1992, there was a very hateful Amendment 2 that basically made it legal for any institution to deny gays and lesbians access, whether it's hospitals or restaurants or employment. Anybody could fire you or not let you in a restaurant because you were gay.

A successful marriage is a decision. You decide it's going to work. You can't always be there, but you have to be there enough. And you have to make sure you are where you're needed most.

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.

If you've gone into a marriage and you haven't been clear about how you're going to handle money, how you want to raise kids, who is going to work or stay home or what have you, then you've set yourself up for failure.

My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship looked like.

Between husband and wife friendship seems to exist by nature, for man is naturally disposed to pairing.

Dear young people, don't be afraid to marry. A faithful and fruitful marriage will bring you happiness.

Before 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.

All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.

Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public building.