Marriage Quotes Quotes
If there are quarrels between the parents or if their marriage is unhappy, the ground will be prepared in their children for the severest predisposition to a disturbance of sexual development or to neurotic illness
Sigmund Freud
Marriage is about banality. Its purpose is banality, to create an environment of surpassing safety and predictability for young children to grow up in, the foundation of life, the root of inner peace.
Orson Scott Card
I've always been very skeptical about marriage, because I only want to do it once; I want to do it the right way.
Sandra Bullock
Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want.
John Fowles
I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.
Vera Mary Brittain
I have loved flowers that fade, Within whose magic tents Rich hues have marriage made With sweet unmemoried scents: A honeymoon delight, A joy of love at sight, That ages in an hour My song be like a flower!
Robert Seymour Bridges
If someone talks about union, fidelity, a monogamous relationship, love, blessing; I would say it sounds like marriage to me. And blessing, you see, I think is undermining our sacrament of marriage.
George Carey
A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.
Paul Getty
We need better government, no doubt about it. But we also need better minds, better friendships, better marriages, better communities.
Wendell Berry
The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.
Peter De Vries
In 5,000 years of recorded human history... neither in the east or in the west... has any society ever defined marriage as anything other than between men and women. Not one in 5000 years of recorded human history. That's an astounding fact and it isn't until the last 12 years or so that we have seen for the first time in recorded human history marriage defined as anything other than between men and between women.
Michele Bachmann
Love is a temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.
Ambrose Bierce
The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.
Peter De Vries
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.
Anna Quindlen
