Top 1200 Wonderful Marriage Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

After my first marriage ended in 2002 I went out with someone who made me feel very sexy. He was ten years younger than me and full of the joy of youth, which was wonderful after all the sadness of divorce, and a great confidence boost.

Marriage is amazing, and I wish every person on this planet to have a blissful marriage.

O marriage! marriage! what a curse is thine, Where hands alone consent and hearts abhor.

Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what's going on in another person's marriage.

I was a happy person before marriage. I'm definitely happier after marriage.

As far as the people that have inspired me, they're the people that I have played with the most. For example, the record that I made called Virtue, there was a wonderful band and a wonderful drummer by the name of Ludwig Afonso and a wonderful bass player by the name of Armando Gola.

The secret to a happy marriage is a sense of humor, because marriage throws you curveballs. It is not easy.

One of the differences between marriage and prostitution is that in marriage you only have to make a deal with one man.

I was one of the first senators to support marriage equality, and led the effort to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act.

Gay marriage won't be more of an issue 25 years from now than interracial marriage is today.

But people try love and because they are unconscious... their longing is good, but their love is full of jealousy, full of possessiveness, full of anger, full of nastiness. Soon they destroy it. Hence for centuries they have depended on marriage. Better to start by marriage so that the law can protect you from destroying it. The society, the government, the court, the policeman, the priest, they will all force you to live in the institution of marriage, and you will be just a slave. If marriage is an institution, you are going to be a slave in it. Only slaves want to live in institutions.

Honestly speaking, after seeing my parents' marriage, I have lost all faith in marriage.

No marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners.

People can't help the way they feel, only what they do about it. They can no longer not be attracted to someone other than their spouse than they can say they are not hungry or not thirsty or not frightened or embarrassed. It's when you act on that attraction when you know it would be bad for your marriage that is the problem. In a good marriage, the couple are each as committed to the marriage as they are to each other.

Marriage is very difficult. Marriage is like a five-thousand-piece jigsaw puzzle, all sky.

To me, the difference between a good marriage and a great marriage is conviction.

It's terrible to be trapped in a bad marriage. It would be nice if your marriage was forever, but why grudge it for what it was not?

The conservative argument for marriage includes a recognition of the traditional value of marriage as a stabilizing force in society.

No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst, that it inevitably changes.

I think marriage becomes a great mirror. My selfishness comes out in my marriage all the time.

Marriage is very secure. It is safe. There is no growth in it. One is simply stuck. Marriage is a sexual arrangement; intimacy is a search for love. Marriage is a sort of prostitution, a permanent sort. One has got married to a woman or to a man - it is a permanent prostitution. The arrangement is economical, not psychological, not of the heart.

Marriage is not one point of view: it's a constant back and forth over different perspectives - a healthy marriage, anyway.

Marriage? I don't know what I really think about marriage. I'm a bit confused on that issue.

It's none of my business what somebody's [orientation is]. Now when somebody makes it my business, like on gay marriage, I'm going to stand up and say I don't support gay marriage. I support marriage between men and women.

I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage.

Marriage of attraction is a gamble anyway, so you might as well marry into a family that is similar to your own, and make that much less of an adjustment. But the 'love marriage', as it is called, is equally common in India now. But it would be interesting to do a comparison of what would work better. Marriage is hard work, and it is a gamble.

The American woman's concept of marriage is a clearly etched picture of something uninflated on the floor. A sleeping-bag withoutair, a beanbag without beans, a padded bra without pads. To work on it, you start pumping--what the magazines call "breathing life into your marriage." Do enough of this and the marriage becomes a kind of Banquo's ghost, a quasi-living entity.

I think a marriage is as a marriage has always been, between a man and a woman.

Sometimes the greatest deterrent to a great marriage is believing you have a perfect marriage.

The State Marriage Defense Act helps safeguard the ability of states to preserve traditional marriage for their citizens.

What we do for each other before marriage is no indication of what we will do after marriage.

Marriage or non-marriage, good or evil, learning or ignorance, any of these is justified, if it leads to the goal.

marriage is an extraordinary thing - and I doubt if any outsider - even a child of the marriage - has the right to judge.

Marriage isn't all that it's cracked up to be, let me tell you. Honestly. Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce.

I love the idea of marriage. I definitely want marriage and little Kellans running around.

The Silly Putty-like malleability of the institution [marriage], in fact, is the only reason we still have the thing at all. Very few people... would accept marriage on it's thirteenth-century terms. Marriage survives, in other words, precisely because it evolves. (Though I suppose this would not be a very persuasive argument to those who probably also don't believe in evolution).

Religion exists not because of God or for God; it is because of marriage. Marriage creates so much misery that one has to meditate; meditation is a byproduct. Without marriage, who will bother to meditate? For what? You will be already blissful!

Marriage is simply an economic necessity, and so there are no elaborate courtship displays or marriage celebrations among the Eskimo.

Those who enter into marriage, must be fully prepared to establish their marriage, as the first priority in their lives.

There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage: a marriage in which there is love, but on one side only.

We are wide open and vulnerable and in all likelihood an activist judge will strike down our Defense of Marriage Act, our state law against gay marriage, this year. And in all likelihood, we will have gay marriage in 2004 in Minnesota , if we don't get this amendment on the ballot for November.

We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we 'enter into the holy estate of matrimony.

Well, marriage doesn't function in the way it used to in terms of deciding our fate, but it's in our heads, and it determines a lot of our actions. Like, right now, if you think about gay marriage - and they just started having the first gay marriages in New York - it shows what a potent idea marriage remains for people.

People told me it was a mistake to marry so young but you can't go into a marriage thinking that because the divorce statistics are so high your marriage won't last. You have to work at it day by day. Though certainly marriage isn't a final, heavy commitment, like signing your life away. It's the type of thing you can always get out of.

Do you think I'm wonderful? she asked him one day as they leaned against the trunk of a petrified maple. No, he said. Why? Because so many girls are wonderful. I imagine hundreds of men have called their loves wonderful today, and it's only noon. You couldn't be something that hundreds of others are.

That's the point. Every kind of animal thinks its own kind of animal is wonderful. So people getting married think they're wonderful, and that they're going to have a baby-- that's wonderful, when actually they're as ugly as rhinoceroses. Just because we think we're so wonderful doesn't mean we really are. We could be really terrible animals and just never admit it because it would hurt so much.

Marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman. I don't think it is the role of the state to define what marriage is.

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Marriage is not defined by who is denied it. When gay people share in the freedom to marry, it doesn't change your marriage.

It works much like a marriage, an old marriage. You've got to work on it.

I have no idea if I will go for an arranged marriage or love marriage.

Marriage is so much like salvation and our relationship with Christ that you can’t understand marriage w/o looking at the gospel.

I'd like to have a successful marriage, not for the sake of labelling or branding, but because I believe in the institution of marriage.

Gender no longer forms an essential part of marriage; marriage under law is a union of equals.

Marriage is not easy, especially when it's a very public marriage. I know firsthand.

Kirstie [Alley] saved me, in a way. [At the time], I had a terrible marriage, and I stayed at her house. She was wonderful - just a kind, big-hearted, filthy girl. Somehow she could be vulgar without being vulgar.

I think the government should be out of the marriage business and leave marriage to the churches.

Granted, there's been mistakes made immaturely, but a marriage is a marriage.

I'm endlessly fascinated by parenting, marriage, my wife and the ins and outs of marriage.

It takes both spouses to say, "My self-centeredness is the main problem in my marriage" to have a great marriage.