marriage quotes

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

Our Nation must defend the sanctity of marriage.

In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don’t baptize the children of single mothers because they weren’t conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today’s hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation.

We want our marriage to be a triumph, not a tragedy.

I’m not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day.

If I’d married someone in show business, there’d be too much competition.

The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

I don’t think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be.

Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

My husband says I look like a Q-tip.

She’s been married so many times she has rice marks on her face.

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

Alimony – the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.

I had real plans for my next decade and felt I’d worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read – if not indeed write – the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger?

Take my wife… Please!

Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives‘ mouths.

When I was married, I definitely went through a lying period.

I feel like I’m the kind of guy that would have kids before getting married. The first thing would be kids.

That’s what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he’s wise.

Why do Jewish divorces cost so much? They’re worth it.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

My fans saw me get engaged, saw me make that woman my wife, me having kids, me divorcing, me talking about divorce before the divorce, me talking about my kids‘ reaction to that divorce.

No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.

I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.

Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.

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

The Bible is clear – God’s definition of marriage is between a man and a woman.

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

I’ve been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she’ll kill me.

I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.

Men’s vows are women’s traitors!

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.

I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.

Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

I give unto my wife my second best bed with the furniture.

Why do Jewish men die before their wives? They want to.

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

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

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

My family didn’t have a lot of money, so I worked my heart out to get my degrees. But the minute I graduated, suddenly everyone was asking me, ‚Well, when are you going to get married and start having kids?‘ And the truth is I had no idea how I would balance the expected role of wife and mother with a challenging career.

You don’t sign up for a divorce when you get married. It’s very painful. But it’s taught me a great deal about myself.

We’re so immaturely cynical as a culture. We’re not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they’re stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another.

When you think about it, three of our biggest financial decisions in life are made at times of peak emotional excitement: deciding to get married, buying a home, and having kids.

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

There was once a caustic comment from someone suggesting I was breeding a new race. Fans from different countries have married, amazing things like that. I’ve been to some of the weddings. I went to one here the other day, a pagan ceremony.

My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.

In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that’s called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country.

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back.

I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.

Only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.

I met my husband before I became a star, and he doesn’t care about any of it.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

I’m married to an Italian woman, and I used to love cooking Italian at home, because it’s one-pot cooking. But my wife does not approve of my Italian cooking.

My partner Donald Trump says that married couples should always have a prenuptial agreement. True, a prenuptial is important if one partner is much richer than the other before marriage, but Kim and I don’t have one.

Part of me feels you can’t say you were truly in love if it didn’t last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that’s when I’ll know it’s real – because it lasted.