Quotes on Marriage

A system could not well have been devised more studiously hostile to human happiness than marriage.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.

If they only married when they fell in love, most people would die unwed.

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

I believe in the institution of marriage, and I intend to keep trying till I get it right.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

Economically as well as emotionally, modern marriage has become like an affluent gated community. It has become harder for low-income Americans to enter and sustain.

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.

It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.

Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?

The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn't say.

Civil marriage, like all civil rights provided by the government, must be provided equally to all Americans.

TV started for me just as a means of keeping my husband Desi off the road. He'd been on tour with his band since he got out of the Army, and we were in our 11th year of marriage and wanted to have children.

For someone to say that marriage is only about procreation is a joke. I didn't marry my husband to have children. I married my husband because I love my husband.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

If husbands could realize what large returns of profit may be gotten out of a wife by a small word of praise paid over the counter when the market is just right, they would bring matters around the way they wish them much oftener than they usually do. Arguments are unsafe with wives, because they examine them; but they do not examine compliments. One can pass upon a wife a compliment that is three-fourths base

In many ways, a song-writing partnership is like a marriage. Apart from just liking each other, a lyricist and a composer should be able to spend long periods of time together - around the clock if need be - without getting on each other's nerves. Their goals, outlooks, and basic philosophies should be similar.

Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new married couple; in that of the lady particularly; it tells you that her lot is disposed of in this world; that you can have no hopes for her.

For 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.

In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.