Quotes about Marriage

"Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife."

"The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship."

"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person."

"Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without."

"A good husband makes a good wife."

"Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth."

"I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage."

"A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted."

"The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time."

"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."

"Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing."

"The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character."

"My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father came and had a life in the United States one way and my mother had a different one, and I was very aware of those things. I continue to wonder about it, and I will continue to write about it."

"If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married."

"When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory."

"I voted for the Defense of Marriage Act but I do not believe we should institutionalize a form of discrimination against any minority by amending the Constitution."

"The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret."

"Marriage is about the most expensive way for the average man to get laundry done."

"Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture."

"State-sanctioned marriage is a civil contract, period. A contract is not a judgment of moral value. It is a legal agreement between two parties that testifies to a meeting of minds between those consenting entities. It is not a religious act or rite and so has nothing to do with Adam and Eve or Steve or even Harvey."

"Husbands are like fires - they go out when they're left unattended."

"Neither man nor woman is perfect or complete without the other. Thus, no marriage or family, no ward or stake is likely to reach its full potential until husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, men and women work together in unity of purpose, respecting and relying upon each other's strengths."

"In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage."

"Friendship brings in a lot of honesty and trust into any relationship, especially a marriage."

"Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage."

"No candidate can win a presidential race advocating gay marriage and opposing the military action in Iraq."

"Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives."

"In a hundred years, Christianity will have mutated into something utterly unpredictable which, nevertheless, we'd recognize immediately. And same-sex marriage will be one of the fine old God-given traditions that conservatives leap to defend."

"One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul."

"Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day."

"Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames."

"A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day."

"I think of marriage as a garden. You have to tend to it. Respect it, take care of it, feed it. Make sure everyone is getting the right amount of, um, sunlight."