Marriage Quotes - Page 24

• Forty-five States, as the gentleman just said, have determined by people that were elected by the people of that State that marriage is the definition of one man and one woman.

  Randy Neugebauer

  Men, People, Gentleman

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• What is the difference between a prostitute and a wife? One is a temporary arrangement, the other is a little more permanent. Marriage is a permanent kind of prostitution; deep down, it is not different. Hence marriage and prostitution have both existed together.

  Rajneesh

  Differences, Wife, Together

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• Was the Buddha married? His wife would say, "Are you just going to sit around like that all day?"

  Garry Shandling

  Wife, Married

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• Both of my marriages have taught me the same lesson twice over really harsh: listen to your instincts. Don't be a people pleaser.

  Drew Barrymore

  People, Lessons, Taught

  "Drew Barrymore: The Latest Drew Stories". Interview with Lawrence Grobel, movieline.com. April 1, 2003.

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• The only thing my husband and I have in common is that we were married on the same day.

  Phyllis Diller

  Husband, Common, Married

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• Marriage is a fine and sacred thing if you make it so.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Sacred Things, Fine, Ifs

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• My husband believed that all women who want to should be free, equal, independent, creative, well informed, and lead stimulating, interesting lives. Except me.

  Lucille Kallen

  Husband, Independent, Interesting

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• Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, "What will you have, sir?" And I said, "A glass of hemlock."

  Ernest Hemingway

  Funny, Regret, Glasses

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• Some women pick men to marry--and others pick them to pieces.

  Mae West

  Women, Pieces, Pick Me

  Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

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• Remember, in our inmost being, we are all completely lovable because spirit is love. Beyond what anyone can make you think or feel about yourself, your unconditioned spirit stands, shining with a love nothing can tarnish.

  Deepak Chopra

  Love, Soulmate, Thinking

  Deepak Chopra (2008). “Path To Love: Spiritual Lessons for Creating the Love You Need”, p.71, Random House

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• Marriage is not a reform school.

  Ann Landers

  School, Reform

  Ann Landers (1978). “The Ann Landers encyclopedia, A to Z: improve your life emotionally, medically, sexually, socially, spiritually”, Galahad Books

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• No one knows what a marriage is like except the two people in it - and sometimes one of them doesn't know.

  Ann Landers

  Two, People, Sometimes

  Ann Landers (1981). “Ann Lander's Encyclopedia, A to Z: Improve Your Life Emotionally, Medically, Sexually, Socially, Spiritually”, Ballantine Books

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• Among even the happiest married couples there are always moments of regret.

  Honore de Balzac

  Happiness, Couple, Regret

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• A safety net of small white lies can be the bedrock of a successful marriage. You wouldn't believe how cheaply I can do a kitchen renovation.

  Anna Quindlen

  Lying, Believe, Successful

  Anna Quindlen (2012). “Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake: A Memoir of a Woman's Life”, p.22, Random House

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• Ours was the Togetherness Generation. We equated togetherness with salvation, and expected so much from it that it was bound to let us down. Companionship, security, lifelong physical and spiritual and emotional warmth - all were to be had for the twist of a ring and the breathing of a vow. And to be had no other way.

  Shana Alexander

  Spiritual, Emotional, Breathing

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• Marriage is supposed to do everything, like Duz, which is more than half its problem. It is said to save us, define us, give us purpose, keep us from loneliness, and incidentally balance our diet and wash our socks, and when it doesn't, we get divorced.

  Merle Shain

  Loneliness, Giving, Balance

  Merle Shain (1973). “Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others”

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• I've had diseases that lasted longer than my marriages. You know you are in a bad marriage if you walk down the aisle thinking, 'Is this dress right?

  Nell Carter

  Thinking, Dresses, Disease

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• when you fall in love, you must fall in love with a man the way he is now, because marriage won't change anything, except maybe your tax deduction.

  Kathie Lee Gifford

  Falling In Love, Love You, Men

  Kathie Lee Gifford, Jim Jerome (1993). “I Can't Believe I Said That!”, Pocket

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• When married one has to get into an argument once in a while since in this way one learns about the other.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Way, Married, Argument

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• After a while in marriage, it doesn't work anymore. There is something missing, there is something wrong. There are few marriages that stay alive forever. We like something, and after a while, we hate what we used to love.

  Monica Bellucci

  Love, Wedding, Hate

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• Never marry a man who hates his mother because he'll end up hating you.

  Jill Bennett

  Mom, Mother, Hate

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• Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Taste, Incompatibility, Matrimony

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.104, 谷月社

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• Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.

  Samuel Butler

  Love, Funny, Witty

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• People marry through a variety of other reasons, and with varying results: but to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.

  James Branch Cabell

  Love Is, People, Tragedy

  "The Cream of the Jest".

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• Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

  Euripides

  Men, Wife, Sympathetic

  "Antigone". Play by Euripides, estimated between 420 and 406 BCE.

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