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Marriage Quotes


"No marriage can stand up under the strain of incessant association."


"Only after I faced the unhappiness of my first marriage did I start on the path of personal growth."


"I guess because the shows were activist in their own way - the marriage of my public activism and my career activism, you know - people understand me very well. They also understand there's a very strong bipartisan part in all of this."


"After marriage, the other man's wife looks more beautiful."


"There were times after my marriage ended where, you know, I really felt like I was at the bottom of a mountain, there was a great big, fog up there, and I'm never going to cross to the other side."


"Second, marriage is an issue that our Founding Fathers wisely left to the states."


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


"Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it."


"Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway."


"I'm always told that what I say is controversial. Why is it controversial? Because I speak from a tradition that has now fallen out of favor with the dominant media in this country. And so when I say things like marriage should be between one man and one woman, I'm called a bigot."


"Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate."


"I'm looking forward to talking to Bill Parcells, too, and to seeing how that marriage with Jerry Jones goes."


"The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female."


"Olympism is the marriage of sport and culture."


"Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes."


"By our Heavenly Father and only because of God, only because of God. We're like other couples. We do not get along perfectly; we do not go without arguments and, as I call them, fights, and heartache and pain and hurting each other. But a marriage is three of us."


"Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful."


"I found marriage somewhat stifling. I don't know that I am the kind of man who ought to be married."


"I've never quite understood why people marry; marriage is just an invented structure."



"It won't take 40 years for opposition to same-sex marriage to dissipate."


"Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash."


"Well, my wife and I were married in a toilet - it was a marriage of convenience!"


"I think the institution of marriage is a great idea, but for me it's just an idea."


"I find it disturbing that the media keeps referring to my marriage, since I got divorced in 1979. But the media never wants to let me forget."


"My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage."


"More than 1.1 million taxpayers in Pennsylvania will enjoy a lower tax rate, more than 1.4 million married couples will benefit from the reduction in the marriage penalty, and more than 1.1 million parents will have the advantage of an increased child tax credit."


"For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both."


"Here in Hollywood you can actually get a marriage license printed on an Etch-A-Sketch."


"I left my marriage knowing I'd have to work. I have."


"I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them."
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