941 private quotes tagged marriage

“Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.” — Abigail Adams

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“Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.” — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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“Gay marriage is the last bastion of, to me... as a legal, ceremonial, sentimental and religious side, it's one of the last steps. Retaining your job being one of the earlier steps, like, not getting kicked out of your job because you're gay.” — Gus Van Sant

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“I believe wholeheartedly in marriage. I don't exclusively mean a marriage with a legal contract, but any relationship that constitutes a marriage because of the quality of their relationship.” — Helen Reddy

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“Even if you plan a marriage and a family, you are never quite prepared for the reality versus how you imagined it. In a lot of ways it's better, and in a lot of ways it's worse. That's life, right?” — Katherine Heigl

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“Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.” — Katharine Hepburn

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“Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.” — Thornton Wilder

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“The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.” — Honore de Balzac

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“We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.” — Joseph Ratzinger

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“Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.” — Honore de Balzac

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“It was a perfect marriage. She didn't want to and he couldn't.” — Spike Milligan

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“The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.” — Brendan Behan

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“If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.” — Mignon McLaughlin

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“An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.” — Sacha Guitry

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“A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.” — Andre Maurois

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“When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.” — Sacha Guitry

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“Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry.” — Rita Rudner

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“I think women are natural caretakers. They take care of everybody. They take care of their husbands and their kids and their dogs, and don't spend a lot of time just getting back and taking time out.” — Reese Witherspoon

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“In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that's called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country.” — Colin Powell

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“Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth.” — Edwin Louis Cole

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“Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.” — Alan King

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“Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps.” — Joe Murray

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“Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.” — Isadora Duncan

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“I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.” — Barbara Bush

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“We will see a breakdown of the family and family values if we decide to approve same-sex marriage, and if we decide to establish homosexuality as an acceptable alternative lifestyle with all the benefits that go with equating it with the heterosexual lifestyle.” — Jerry Falwell

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