941 private quotes tagged marriage

“You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

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“Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway.” — Joey Adams

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“Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage.” — John le Carre

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“In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage.” — Robert Anderson

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“I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.” — Gloria Steinem

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“Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.” — Søren Kierkegaard

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“After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.” — Helen Rowland

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“In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

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“What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.” — Gertrude Stein

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“Whenever the people are for gay marriage or medical marijuana or assisted suicide, suddenly the 'will of the people' goes out the window.” — Bill Maher

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“A woman asking 'Am I good? Am I satisfied?' is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be.” — Barbara Cartland

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“Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.” — P. J. O'Rourke

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“I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that in the sanctity in the place of their religion and not bless them or solemnize them.” — Colin Powell

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“I oppose any attempt to grant homosexual unions the same legal privileges that civil government affords to traditional marriage and family life.” — Todd Akin

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“I very much feel that marriage is a sacrament and that sacrament should extend... to that legal entity of a union between what traditionally in our Western values has been defined as between a man and a woman.” — Bill Frist

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“I don't know how it is for women or for other guys, but when I was young and in my 20s, I had a fear of marriage.” — Jeff Bridges

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“I hope gay marriage will be legal in every state.” — Mark Consuelos

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“Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.” — Hesiod

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“Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.” — John Lyly

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“Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.” — Herbert Spencer

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“I wanted to marry a girl just like my mom.” — Michael Bergin

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“A sense of humor is great - it goes a long, long way in a marriage.” — Chris Rock

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“Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?” — Ted Olson

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“It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.” — Elizabeth Edwards

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“Marriage is a financial contract I have enough contracts already.” — Linda Fiorentino

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