Quotes on Marriage

Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.

Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.

Marriage is about love, but it is not first and foremost about love. First and foremost, marriage is about continuity and transmission.

Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?

Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want then when you see what the other person has, you wish you had ordered that.

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

The longest sentence you can form with two words is: I do.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.

In the face of love, everyone is equal. Let everyone have the freedom to love and to pursue their happiness. I am Tsai Ing-wen, and I support marriage equality.

Of all the actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all the actions of our lives, 'tis the most meddled with by other people.

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

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

This doctrine of prenatal influence is now slowly being recognized, and science as well as religion calls out: 'Keep yourself holy, and pure.' So deeply has this been recognized in India, that there we even speak of adultery in marriage, except when marriage is consummated in prayer.

Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.

Dance as though no one is watching. Love as though you've never been hurt. Sing as though no one can hear you. Live as though heaven is on earth.

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship-only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.

Dammit Sir, it's your duty to get married. You can't always be living for pleasure!

'I am' is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that 'I do' is the longest sentence?