Quotes about Marriages

Marriages, like careers, need constant nurturing... the secret of having it all is loving it all. Votes: 4

Marriages are best made of dissimilar material. Votes: 3

Weddings have logic, but Marriages have emotions Votes: 3

Marriages come and go, but divorce is forever. Votes: 3

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. Votes: 3

Marriages are not normally made to avoid having children. Votes: 3

Marriages can endure any difficulty with unfailing love and dedication. Votes: 3

Marriages may come and go, but the game must go on. Votes: 3

Marriages last because the people in them want to be married Votes: 3

Marriages that last are with people who do not live in Los Angeles. Votes: 3

Marriages are made in heaven. When Allah made a creature, He also made the creature's mate Votes: 3

Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship. Votes: 3

Marriages are said to be made in Heaven, which may be why they don't work here on Earth. Votes: 3

Marriages that made out of love (so-called "love-matches") have error as their father and misery (necessity) as their mother. Votes: 3

How Many Marriages Would Be Better If the Husband and the Wife Clearly Understood That They're On the Same Side~? Votes: 3

How Many Marriages Would Be Better If the Husband and the Wife Clearly Understood That They're On the Same Side? Votes: 3

Arranged Marriages don't always have to be risky. Get to know your future in-laws. She's bound to be like one of them. Votes: 3

Marriages we regard as the happiest are those in which each of the partners believes he or she got the best of it. Votes: 3

Marriages should culminate on account of the wishes of the couple. It is their knitting of the hearts that should lead to marriages Votes: 3

The church still meets people at the transition points. Marriages break down. Children commit suicide and leave helpless parents. Death and suffering are everywhere. Votes: 3

Marriages are more likely to fail when one partner not only does not mirror the other's expressions of happiness, but instead shows expressions of contempt. Votes: 3

Marriages go through hard times. Sometimes you have to get in there and fight for your love. That's the only way for it to get better. Votes: 3

Marriages don't last. When I meet a guy, the first question I ask myself is: is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with? Votes: 3

Marriages struggle because we've set our marriages up to fail by thinking that this person is going to complete me when they were never created to do that. Votes: 3

Marriages are under strain today in terms of economics. There are social cross-currents. We see failed marriages. But it is not under attack by our gay and lesbian citizens." Votes: 3

All that Swinging Sixties. It didn’t do anyone any good, did it? Easy sex and the Pill. Marriages were ruined. I never did approve. I never really enjoyed the sex. Votes: 3

A spot whereon the founders lived and died Seemed once more dear than life; ancestral trees, Or gardens rich in memory glorified Marriages, alliances, and families, And every bride's ambition satisfied. Votes: 3

In Hollywood, there is no bigger commitment you can make than to a TV series. Even marriages pale in comparison. Marriages don't require signing iron-clad multiyear contracts. At least, most first marriages don't. Votes: 3

Marriages are much more likely to succeed when the couple experiences a 5 to 1 ratio of positive to negative interactions whereas when the ratio approaches 1 to 1, marriages are more likely to end in divorce. Votes: 3

Marriages are so complicated that no one person is the culprit. But, I am really interested in class without really realizing that I am. It's more the manifestations of different classes that interest me. Votes: 3

Marriages had different meanings back then than they do now, they were used to cement agreements between families, business deals and things like that. The idea of marriages being arranged for love is some sort of modern idea, really. Votes: 3

There's a really unique relationship between a single parent and their child. Marriages so easily break up. There's kind of this temporary deal about marriages. That's one of the things that makes it stressful, and that's something that's nonexistent in a parent-child relationship. Votes: 3

I know all about cheating. I've had six very successful marriages. Votes: 2

They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning. Votes: 2

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get. Votes: 2

The great marriages are partnerships. It can't be a great marriage without being a partnership. Votes: 2

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse. Votes: 2

The tabloids, instead of being about alien babies and stuff, it's my triplets, quadruplets, marriages, feuds. Votes: 2

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. Votes: 2

I don't think I will go for an arranged marriage, but I am not against arranged marriages. Votes: 2

I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book. Votes: 2

Most Kikuyu marriages were arranged on the basis of what is described by anthropologists as the bride price. Votes: 2

I understand why marriages break up over golf. I can't even talk about my own handicap because it's too upsetting. Votes: 2

Most African women are taught to endure abusive marriages. They say endurance means a good wife but most women endure abusive relationship because they are not empowered economically; they depend on their husbands. Votes: 2

Most marriages are a mess, and the children get caught between two bitter, antagonistic parents. My parents stayed married for 27 unhappy years, till their kids were grown, and this was a catastrophe for us. Votes: 2

To live for a principle, for the triumph of some reform by which all mankind are to be lifted up to be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it. Votes: 2

Mergers are like marriages. They are the bringing together of two individuals. If you wouldn't marry someone for the 'operational efficiencies' they offer in the running of a household, then why would you combine two companies with unique cultures and identities for that reason? Votes: 2

For the standard of Christian life was to be strained to a higher pitch; more fasting was required, and more careful separation from the manners and enjoyments of the world; celibacy and martyrdom had great value set upon them, and second marriages were prohibited. Votes: 2

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? Votes: 2

Many marriages break up over hormonal imbalance, which is truly sad because it comes from a lack of understanding. When hormones are put back in balance with natural bioidentical hormones, a woman or man resumes their normal life of feeling good and having days filled with quality. Votes: 2

I've got lots of friends who are musicians, and there is a fair proportion of broken marriages and relationships as a result. You are on the move all the time. It's difficult if you have kids, and it's hard to make money unless you are in the premier league. Votes: 2

I think sometimes we look at other people's marriages and we think they must always be so happy together. I don't know anybody who's married for a long time who hasn't somehow made room in their love story for the hate and resentment that they sometimes feel toward each other. Votes: 2

But marriage goes in waves. You've got to be patient. People bail and give up on their marriages way too early. They just don't put the work and the effort into it. You've got to suck up your ego a lot of times, because that can be a big downfall. Votes: 2

Let us be honest with each other. The threat to marriage is not the gays. It is a lack of loving commitment - whether it is found in the form of neglect, indifference, cruelty or adultery, to name just a few manifestations of the loveless desert in which too many marriages come to grief. Votes: 2

I think being raised by a single mother put me on the outside, and I would watch my mother's married friends and think, 'Why does she put him down in public?' or, 'Why is he so rude to her?' It seemed to me that there were very few marriages where the couple were genuinely in a supportive, loving partnership. Votes: 2

I don't believe in hasty marriages. Votes: 0

Between them, my parents had 10 marriages. Votes: 0

three-fourths of all marriages are unhappy. Votes: 0

Like fingerprints, all marriages are different. Votes: 0

All of my marriages lasted seven years. Votes: 0

There are no cartoons about happy marriages. Votes: 0

Marriage, even the best marriages are tough. Votes: 0

Terrific marriages are completely respectful, transparent and loyal. Votes: 0

...beds last on an average much longer than marriages... Votes: 0

Friendships like marriages are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable. Votes: 0

Bad marriages don't cause infidelity; infidelity causes bad marriages. Votes: 0

Divorce isn't caused because 50% of marriages end in gayness. Votes: 0

Other people's marriages are a perpetual source of amazement. Votes: 0

I've had diseases that lasted longer than my marriages. Votes: 0

All marriages are sacred, but not all are safe. Votes: 0

The only happy marriages I know are arranged ones. Votes: 0

In Hollywood, marriages are kind of expected to fail. Votes: 0

In Hollywood, marriages are kind of expected to fail. Votes: 0

All marriages are happy, it's living together afterward that's tough. Votes: 0

There are some good marriages, but practically no delightful ones. Votes: 0

There are good marriages, but there are no delightful ones. Votes: 0

Many marriages are simply working partnerships between businessmen and housekeepers. Votes: 0

Good marriages are made in heaven. Or some such place. Votes: 0

There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages. Votes: 0

Fidelity is the single most important element in solidly enduring marriages. Votes: 0

Antagonistic cooperation is the principle of all markets and many marriages. Votes: 0

Two things are owed to truthfulness: lasting marriages and short friendships. Votes: 0

People struggle in marriages and more than 55% of people get divorced. Votes: 0

Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive. Votes: 0

A hundred percent of marriages end in divorce, disappearance or death. Votes: 0

Prostitutes, more than any other profession, help keep American marriages together. Votes: 0

Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive Votes: 0

I don't like being a voyeur, looking into other people's marriages. Votes: 0

romances and marriages are usually over long before they are over. Votes: 0

I am changing the notion that actresses can't have happy marriages Votes: 0

A defeatist attitude kills almost as many marriages as do affairs. Votes: 0

The majority of great men are the offspring of unhappy marriages. Votes: 0

Artist colonies are notorious for breaking up marriages and housing affairs. Votes: 0

Sugar Ray Leonard's retirements last about as long as Elizabeth Taylor's marriages. Votes: 0

Stressful jobs, loveless marriages, bad food-most people kill themselves slowly every day. Votes: 0

Both my marriages were failures! Number one departed, and number two stayed Votes: 0

Some relationships are based on lies Some marriages weren't built to last Votes: 0

In most marriages, there is a contented partner and a restless one. Votes: 0

I don't regret either of my marriages - not for a minute. Votes: 0

God, the best maker of all marriages, Combine your hearts into one. Votes: 0

Lot's of marriages don't last as long as Queen have been together. Votes: 0

Adultery breathes new life into marriages which have been left for dead. Votes: 0

I don't remember my first two marriages... the details are very sketchy. Votes: 0

After three failed marriages, I know what it's like to be replaced. Votes: 0

Some marriages depend on domestic arguments the way the courts depend on litigation. Votes: 0

This manifesto only refers to future marriages, and does not affect past conditions. Votes: 0

If married couples did not live together, happy marriages would be more frequent. Votes: 0

I treat my relationships like marriages. The ceremony isn't that important to me. Votes: 0

Inertia accounts for two-thirds of marriages. But love accounts for the other third. Votes: 0

If say 90% of Christian marriages were intact, people would be writing about it. Votes: 0

I favor legalizing same-sex marriages, and would fight efforts to prohibit such marriages Votes: 0

A strange marriage that had been, though most marriages appear strange to spectators. Votes: 0

Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other. Votes: 0

I deal with unhappy marriages a lot. I've never been married, I'm single Votes: 0

The Jewes spend at Easter, the Moors at marriages, the Christians in sutes. Votes: 0

Between the marriages, I shagged my way round television studios like a mechanical digger. Votes: 0

All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble. Votes: 0

How many people have had starter marriages? For some reason, mine really offends people. Votes: 0

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get. Votes: 0

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity. Votes: 0

I think what destroys Hollywood marriages is our work schedule, not so much infidelity. Votes: 0

Political elections are a good deal like marriages, there's no accounting for anyone's taste. Votes: 0

Money is either the best or the worst area of communication in our marriages. Votes: 0

They say all marriages are made in heaven, but so are thunder and lightning. Votes: 0

Romances paint at full length people's wooing. But only give a bust of marriages. Votes: 0

If people only made prudent marriages, what a stop to population there would be! Votes: 0

For a romantic comedy to be three hours long, that's longer than most marriages. Votes: 0

Some people who think they are in unhappy marriages are just in unhappy bodies. Votes: 0

I might be responsible for as many gay marriages as I am for heterosexual divorces. Votes: 0

Do you realize that the Bush administration has now produced more gay marriages than jobs? Votes: 0

Super-confident people with no problems and great marriages and great parenting are not good entertainment. Votes: 0

All marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems. Votes: 0

Y'know, every relationship is different. There are good marriages, bad marriages, connected partners, unconnected partners. Votes: 0

Watching news showing all the same sex marriages. How long before first same sex divorce? Votes: 0

Those who don't take themselves too seriously have marriages that seem to just be better. Votes: 0

Of course, bad marriages are so pervasive that they have invaded the faith community too. Votes: 0

People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars. Votes: 0

Thanks to arranged marriages: There are countless women who have never been their husband's girlfriend. Votes: 0

Women have become so highly educated... that nothing should surprise us nowadays, except happy marriages. Votes: 0

Perhaps this is in the end what most marriages are - gentleness, memory, and habit. Votes: 0

I think I've become the brand ambassador of arranged marriages, especially for working Indian women. Votes: 0

I guess funny people are attracted to funny people, and then you get comedy marriages. Votes: 0

Half of all marriages end in divorce- and then there are the really unhappy ones. Votes: 0

Although there are many trial marriages... there is no such thing as a trial child. Votes: 0

The happiest marriages are full of alternative lives, lived in the head, unknown to the partner. Votes: 0

Lot of people wondering if John Kerry supports gay marriages. Here's a hint ... he gets $1,000 haircuts. Votes: 0

when you speak of other people's marriages, you are, of course, saying something about your own. Votes: 0

The capacity of women to make unsuitable marriages must be considered as the cornerstone of society. Votes: 0

Chumps always make the best husbands. All the unhappy marriages come from the husbands having brains. Votes: 0

In Hollywood, all marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes the problems. Votes: 0

Over-eating is the most worthy of sins. It neither breaks up marriages nor causes road accidents. Votes: 0

Of my four marriages, the one to Bob Levitt is the only one I don't regret Votes: 0

To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages. Votes: 0

For some of us, watching a miniseries that lasts longer than most marriages is not easy. Votes: 0

What surprises me in life are not the marriages that fail, but the marriages that succeed. Votes: 0

I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is. Votes: 0

All marriages are same sex marriages. You get married and every night, it's the same sex. Votes: 0

If marriages are said to be made in heaven then why search for grooms in hell. Votes: 0

Of my four marriages, the one to Bob Levitt is the only one I don't regret. Votes: 0

I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income. Votes: 0

The reason I had unfaithfulness in one of my marriages is because I was too patriotic. Votes: 0

I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income. Votes: 0

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages. Votes: 0

And pray where in earth or heaven are there prudent marriages-Might as well talk about prudent suicides. Votes: 0

The most we can hope for is strong marriages. Married women vote Republican; single women vote Democratic. Votes: 0

If there was more courting in marriage, there'd be fewer marriages in court. Date your mate. Today. Votes: 0

Some marriages are made in heaven, but they all have to be maintained on earth. Mrs Miracle Votes: 0

I don't know nothing about no marriages or nothing. I ain't even never been to a wedding. Votes: 0

Obviously, marriage is not a synonym for morality. But stable marriages and families do encourage moral behavior. Votes: 0

Most marriages can survive 'better or worse'. The tester is all the years of 'exactly the same'. Votes: 0

Famously, the CIA is somewhere where marriages hardly ever last because it's obviously such a strange lifestyle. Votes: 0

Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new. Votes: 0

It is difficult for me to understand the tragic accounts of troubled marriages that come to me. Votes: 0

biographies are a little like marriages: You only have room in your life for one or two. Votes: 0

Few people who marry plan for their marriages to fail, but neither do they specifically plan for success. Votes: 0

And pray where in earth or heaven are there prudent marriages? Might as well talk about prudent suicides. Votes: 0

When you put four Alaskans into a room, you have five marriages, six divorces, and seven political parties. Votes: 0

I don't consider my marriages as failures! It's idiotic to assume that because a marriage ends, it's failed. Votes: 0

Photography ruins marriages, and I've been married three times - so there's a downside to it as well. Votes: 0

It may be said of happy marriages as of the phoenix - there is but one a century ... Votes: 0

There are two marriages, then, in every marital union, his and hers. And his ... is better than hers. Votes: 0

Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent. Votes: 0

In love marriages, you at least know your partner. A known devil is better than an unknown one!" Votes: 0

In love marriages, you at least know your partner. A known devil is better than an unknown one! Votes: 0

I think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely. Votes: 0

I see the policy of opposing same-sex marriages or unions, whatever you call it, as bigotry or discrimination. Votes: 0

I think that political marriages are subject to more strain than most precisely because of the nature of politics. Votes: 0

Broken marriages, conflicts of loyalty, the problems of everyday life fall away as one faces up to [Jeff] Thomson. Votes: 0

Likings arise when one has no earthly reason for liking - the most wildly improbable marriages and uncommon friendship. Votes: 0

Some struggling marriages can be salvaged with hard work and counseling; others should be dismantled and stripped for parts. Votes: 0

Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want. Votes: 0

the most successful marriages were always based on both partners feeling that they had done rather well for themselves. Votes: 0

marriages do not take root in the presence of witnesses but only in the consciousness of the persons involved. Votes: 0

If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears. Votes: 0

Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy Votes: 0

Looking at traditional marriages, it seems the surest way for a woman to be alone is to get married. Votes: 0

I have had a couple of marriages, but like every other woman I had a perfect right to them. Votes: 0

I've had bad luck in my two previous marriages. The first wife left me, and the second did not. Votes: 0

The best of all possible marriages is a seesaw in which first one, then the other partner is dominant. Votes: 0

I dislike arranged marriages. There are some mistakes for which one should not be able to blame one's poor parents. Votes: 0

We need better government, no doubt about it. But we also need better minds, better friendships, better marriages, better communities. Votes: 0

It baseball is an American institution and more lasting than some marriages, war, Supreme Court decisions and even major depressions Votes: 0

I've always been comfortable working with women and I've had two happy marriages. Draw what conclusions you like from that. Votes: 0

I have heard about the civilized, the marriages run on talk, elegant and honest, rational. But and I are savages. Votes: 0

As women in industrial societies join the paid workforce, they gain the economic means to depart unhappy marriages more easily. Votes: 0

Marriage is a gift from God to us; the quality of our marriages is a gift from us to Him. Votes: 0

Great marriages are like the Higgs Boson particle, its existence has been theorized, but no one has ever seen one. Votes: 0

Not all marriages are made in heaven. Some, probably most, are constructed here on earth for any number of reason. Votes: 0

Growing marriages aren't determined by how much you have in common but by how graciously you deal with your differences. Votes: 0

I wish I had been a better mother and a more compassionate and understanding wife in both of my marriages. Votes: 0

Many of the young aspire to happy marriages and dot-com fortunes but end up in guarded love and okay-for-now jobs. Votes: 0

Character, not passion keeps marriages together long enough to do their work of raising children into mature, responsible, productive citizens. Votes: 0

There are two kinds of marriages - where the husband quotes the wife and where the wife quotes the husband. Votes: 0

Lady Lytton rules her husband, but that I suppose is always the case where marriages are what is called 'happy'. Votes: 0

People say children from broken homes have it hard, but the children of charmed marriages have their own particular challenges. Votes: 0

I really don't limit myself in any way. I just search for great flavors and marriages wherever they come from. Votes: 0

Like wars, forest fires and bad marriages, really stupid laws are much easier to begin than they are to end. Votes: 0

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side. Votes: 0

Like accidents, marriages result because those involved happen to arrive at what might be the wrong place, at the same time. Votes: 0

Businesses that run well are almost like marriages. Everything has to be up for discussion, or there will be real problems. Votes: 0

Buildings are tools to reach people, raise disciples, reach students, train up our kids, heal marriages and families and worship God. Votes: 0

I was very happy in both my marriages. I was unfaithful and so were they, just like any other normal couple. Votes: 0

They say marriages work better if you don't know the person too well. Maybe we should stop writing each other posthaste. Votes: 0

I mean, we had on our show, we had marriages, divorces and other stuff going on. And that was just me. Votes: 0

Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage. Votes: 0

France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are 'made in America.' Votes: 0

The Bible does not oppose or forbid interracial marriages but sees them as a positive good for the glory of Christ. Votes: 0

Honesty is a rare commodity in a palace, and that is why so many fairy-tale marriages end up on the rocks. Votes: 0

There is much to be said for exotic marriages. If your husband is a bore, it takes years longer to discover. Votes: 0

The failure of so many marriages is due to their getting married out of animal passion and not out of love. Votes: 0

With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits. Votes: 0

It's simply not true that Donald Trump has no experience in foreign affairs. Hell, two of his foreign affairs resulted in marriages! Votes: 0

Our housekeeping is mendicant, our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion we have not chosen but society has chosen for us. Votes: 0

Happy marriages are alive and well. The cries of their demise have been highly overrated, and couples happily married do indeed exist. Votes: 0

The absence of marriages will result in all kinds of financial burdens that gay people wouldn't face if they could get married. Votes: 0

I am skittish about relationships, as most of the marriages I've seen up close have been ruinous for one or both parties. Votes: 0

Fifty per cent of all marriages end in divorce. But look at the bright side: the other 50 per cent end in death. Votes: 0

The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages. Votes: 0

I don't look upon my divorces as mistakes. Those marriages were right for the Bess that made that decision at that time. Votes: 0

Some marriages break up, and some do not, and in our world you can usually explain the former better than the latter. Votes: 0

All careers go up and down like friendships, like marriages, like anything else, and you can't bat a thousand all the time. Votes: 0

A constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages is a form of gay bashing and it would do nothing at all to protect traditional marriages. Votes: 0

It was true; always had been. Friendships were like marriages in that way. Routines and patterns were poured early and hardened like cement. Votes: 0

When your first marriage goes into tragedy, you become very battle-scarred... I even thought of suicide. Luckily, I had known some happy marriages. Votes: 0

Don't you know what marriage means in this world? They are mergers and acquisitions disguised as marriages. In other words, the takeover syndromes. Votes: 0

Both of my marriages have taught me the same lesson twice over really harsh: listen to your instincts. Don't be a people pleaser. Votes: 0

Good bread and good butter go together. They are one of the perfect marriages in gastronomy, and they never fail to cheer me. Votes: 0

If more husbands and fathers would put as much energy into their marriages and families as they do their jobs, the world would change. Votes: 0

I have five kids from three marriages. I come from a trailer park. My sister and brother are both gay. I have multiple personalities. Votes: 0

If our bodies are sick, we seek to heal them. We do not give up. The same thing should be true of our marriages. Votes: 0

Lizzie Pepper is pure fiction! The character is pulled from tabloids. But I think we all look at celebrity marriages and invest in them. Votes: 0

Those who have made unhappy marriages walk on stilts, while the happy ones are on a level with the crowd. No one sees 'em! Votes: 0

I love the idea of creative collaboration. I love the idea of exploring marriages, particularly ones that are in process for a long time. Votes: 0

If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don't blame the women's movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based. Votes: 0

In all marriages there is the imbalance: one who loves more than the other. One who licks wounds in secret, the rust-taste of blood. Votes: 0

I know some good marriages-marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other. Votes: 0

Are you planning to get married?' She finally asked. 'Like to someone in particular?' He shrugged. 'Aren't most marriages to someone in particular? Votes: 0

I want to see the numbers that prove that show-business marriages are any less successful than other marriages. It's just very public when they fail. Votes: 0

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on. Votes: 0

Long marriages have ended in ruin over tiny and insignificant grievances that were never properly aired and instead grew into a brittle barnacle of hatred. Votes: 0

We Americans are hard on almost everything. We are hard on our vehicles, our marriages and our heroes. Mostly, however, we are hard on ourselves. Votes: 0

Not having insurance not only destroys your life, it destroys your fiscal life. It breaks up marriages. You cannot functions anywhere unless you have good health. Votes: 0

Yesterday Senator John Kerry changed his mind and now supports the ban on gay marriages. I'm telling you this guy has more positions than Paris Hilton. Votes: 0

Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences. Votes: 0

Vanity, wounded pride, rejection, self-delusion. I could recite a litany of little pinpricks that finally produce a gaping wound. That's how marriages and friendships come apart. Votes: 0

The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last. Votes: 0

I was appalled and shocked that Bush used the State of the Union to attack same-sex marriages and indicated that he would support a constitutional amendment. Votes: 0

I feel saddened when people who have major friendships or marriages wind up on the outs. Because I think you lose a little piece of yourself. Votes: 0

I love luxury, I love the high life, and I have to foot the bills - I have received practically nothing from my marriages and relationships. Votes: 0

All couples have been told to schedule regular one-on-one time. 'Date night' is the default answer to most problems in modern marriages. And research backs this up. Votes: 0

Among the reasons marriages fail, sex ranks no higher than fourth, behind money, having only one bathroom, and an inability to communicate, reasons one, two and three. Votes: 0

In my marriages, I'd lost parts of who I was because I was trying to mold myself into what I thought a man wanted me to be. Votes: 0

I don't engage in brainwashing, I don't dictate forms of lifestyle, I don't perform mass marriages or even singular marriages. I don't tell people what to believe. Votes: 0

In those days, man, in the '50s, black people in the South... We didn't recognize contracts that much. And we didn't recognize marriages that much, either. Votes: 0

Many people with physical disabilities have romantic lives and good marriages to partners who see past their disabilities and recognize all of the things they can do. Votes: 0

Gays (homosexuals) usually bring up the argument about all the straight couples living in 'sham' marriages, but I see no point in dragging the Clintons into this Votes: 0

I don't know, one out of every two marriages ends up in divorce so there's a lot of great people out there who people aren't happy with. Votes: 0

In the beginning of the human race there was no genetic load which would cause undesirable traits such as appear in offspring of marriages between relatives today. Votes: 0

I can fall in and out of love, have marriages that barely last a month. When they go down the drain, I'll blame it on the fame. Votes: 0

Men tell me that I've saved their marriages. It costs them a fortune in shoes, but it's cheaper than a divorce. So I'm still useful, you see. Votes: 0

It is hardly possible to estimate how many marriages fail to prosper or are actually ruined because the man lacks any inkling of the art of love. Votes: 0

Provincial governments in Canada have terminated the positions of marriage commissioners who have, for personal religious convictions, not performed same sex marriages. It has happened in Saskatchewan. Votes: 0

The Libertarian Party holds that same-sex marriages are an individual issue and that the government has no right to determine with whom a person should have a relationship. Votes: 0

According to a new study, women in satisfying marriages are less likely to develop cardiovascular diseases than unmarried women. So don't worry, lonely women, you'll be dead soon. Votes: 0

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success. Votes: 0

Every success and failure of any relationship is two-sided. No matter how thin, the pancake always has two sides. Yes, I blew my marriages. And so did they. Votes: 0

All those "and they lived happily ever after" fairy tale endings need to be changed to "and they began the very hard work of making their marriages happy." Votes: 0

Maybe marriages are best in middle age. When all the nonsense falls away and you realize you have to love one another because you're going to die anyway. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

It used to be when we said, ''til death do us part,' death parted us pretty soon. That's why marriages used to last forever. Everybody was dead. Votes: 0

We spend our lives trying to get along with people so we can keep our jobs, keep our marriages together, so that we can raise our kids properly. Votes: 0

What has changed for me is that I now have a huge family [Lightfoot has four children, from his first two marriages] - the result of my living. Votes: 0

The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth, and one of the shortest lived. Votes: 0

For thousands of years, most marriages were in Stage I--survival-focused. After World War II, marriages increasingly flirted with Stage II--a self-fulfillment focus... Love's definition is in a transition. Votes: 0

But perhaps this is what goes wrong with long marriages--you state your opinions, your likes and dislikes, at the beginning and then forget to mention when they change" (135). Votes: 0

Sexual excitability is increased and leads to hasty engagements, marriages by the newspaper, improper love-adventures, conspicuous behavior, fondness for dress, on the other hand to jealousy and matrimonial discord. Votes: 0

Think of the repentance that could take place with lives changed, marriages preserved, and homes strengthened, if pride did not keep us from confessing our sins and forsaking them." Votes: 0

Europeans are dying out. Don't you understand that? And same-sex marriages don't produce children. Do you want to survive by drawing migrants? But society cannot adapt so many migrants. Votes: 0

All marriages were a consequence of security, tradition, money and beauty. Love was a chance, a lucky coincidence. Its existence was an after-thought, for more serious matters cemented marriage. Votes: 0

L'adulte' re introduit l'esprit dans la lettre quebien souvent le mariage e u" t laisse e morte. Adultery breathes new life into marriages which have been left for dead. Votes: 0

I don't need to marry again. I've been married twice, and I love it when it works, but these days we live until we're 80 and marriages are jolly long. Votes: 0

I think it's something that needs to be said - that there are interracial marriages out there, and the couples live happy lives, and there's nothing wrong with it. Votes: 0

I do agree you can't just make movies three hours long for no apparent reason. For a romantic comedy to be three hours long, that's longer than most marriages. Votes: 0

I don't think marriages break up because of what you do to each other. They break up because of what you must become in order to stay in them. Votes: 0

People quit on jobs. They quit on marriages. They quit on school. There's an immediacy of this day and age that doesn't lend itself to being committed to anything. Votes: 0

When I look back on my marriages, or the breakups, sure I know the pain I went through, but that's part of life and it has its own value. Votes: 0

I see a lot of marriages crash and burn around me and my wife. I've always been curious about how hard it is to love well and be loved. Votes: 0

People are more concerned about the economy then these ridiculous concerns as to gender inequity in society, as manifested in marriages, in the mental health system, and then in literature. Votes: 0

My dad is from Japanese descent, my mom is from Swedish descent and, through marriages and divorces, a pretty multicultural family - a lot of Spanish speakers in the family. Votes: 0

I do believe in soulmates and happy/successful marriages. No marriage can be happy 24x7 for 365 days. Both partners have to make the relationship work, is what I believe in. Votes: 0

All of my short films are about marriages, and I think that this probably comes from some kind of unconscious fascination with my parents' story and what they went through. Votes: 0

Rich people making their houses bigger in order to make their lives happier wind up hurting their own marriages. There's a deep irony here. Do the couples perceive that irony? Votes: 0

I don't believe that same-sex marriages would weaken heterosexual marriage. Marriage is not a scarce resource. I thought that conservatives worried about too few people choosing marriage, not too many. Votes: 0

If you look at Jack Benny, George Burns, or Don Rickles, they've all had long, successful marriages. So, I think there's something about laughter and the durability of a marriage. Votes: 0

Cleaning up after themselves was a low priority for Margo and my mother. They had both recovered from cancer scares, failed marriages, and lost hope; in their opinion, dirt could wait. Votes: 0

Personally I'm an advocate for healthy marriages and families and I do a lot of speaking around the country sharing my faith and talking to women's groups, even specifically about marriage. Votes: 0

It is a sad fact that 50 percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. But hey, the other half end in death. You could be one of the lucky ones! Votes: 0

Old dogs can be a regal sight. Their exuberance settles over the years into a seasoned nobility, their routines become as locked into yours as the quietest and kindest of marriages. Votes: 0

She worded it a bit strongly, but I do find myself more and more struck by the differences between the sexes. To put it another way: All marriages are mixed marriages. Votes: 0

If common sense had been consulted, how many marriages would never have taken place; if uncommon or divine sense, how few marriages such as we witness would ever have taken place! Votes: 0

A perfectly happy marriage? There is no such thing. There are strong marriages that can survive problems, but happiness is such a brief condition, interrupted by difficulties and plain, boring routine. Votes: 0

Some marriages are made in heaven,Mine was made in Hong Kong, by the same people who make those little rubber pork chops they sell in the pet department at Kmart. Votes: 0

We live in grief for having left the womb, for having left the teat, then school, then home. In my case, it was leaving marriages, and the death of my wife. Votes: 0

Look at all the marriages that have been wonderfully successful where fellows finished their army service and came home to go to college on G.I. bills and their wives worked. Votes: 0

A man imagines a happy marriage as a marriage of love; even if he makes fun of marriages that are without love, or feels sorry for lovers who are without marriage. Votes: 0

Like most marriages, ours eventually wore down all the cartilage. We were a hip needing replacement. Bone on bone, grinding, day in and day out. It worked but it was hard. Votes: 0

I think that as Christians we need to walk the delicate balance between standing in opposition to same-sex marriages and yet showing that we can do that without becoming angry or hateful. Votes: 0

Most marriages I've known, and I've been married a long time and I've known a lot of married people - you wonder how they got together. Often they seem to be opposites. Votes: 0

My daughter is a good, caring, compassionate person. To me that's the true meaning of success, even though the marriages didn't work out. My success with my daughter is all that matters. Votes: 0

As a 29-year-old, the only thing that I can possibly think is that if I'm still performing at 50, it's because I'll have had disastrous marriages and I have to pay for them. Votes: 0

Where is the civil rights groundswell on behalf of stronger marriages that will allow more children to grow up in two-parent families and have a better chance of staying out of poverty? Votes: 0

In a day of footloose movements of people and of mixed marriages in the ancestry of the most desirable elements of the community we preach unabashed the gospel of the pure race. Votes: 0

Do the bishops seriously imagine that legalising gay marriage will result in thousands of parties to heterosexual marriages suddenly deciding to get divorced so they can marry a person of the same sex? Votes: 0

Library books were, I suddenly realized, promiscuous, ready to lie down in the arms of anyone who asked. Not like bookstore books, which married their purchasers, or were brokered for marriages to others. Votes: 0

Nations fight against nations, in marriages people fight against each other, children fight against each other. We are in warfare, in a national warfare, and in warfare with each other and with ourselves. Votes: 0

Elections are a good deal like marriages. There's no accounting for anyone's taste. Every time we see a bridegroom we wonder why she ever picked him, and it's the same with public officials. Votes: 0

Almost every problem people face in their careers and other aspects of their lives - such as failed diets, marriages, and financial problems - are all the result of not taking enough action. Votes: 0

[The Lord] has indicated that the greatest work we parents can do is performed in our homes, and our homes can be heaven, particularly when our marriages are sealed in the house of God. Votes: 0

We've got gays working there. If they can demonstrate long-term relationships, we make same-sex benefits available just as we do with common-law marriages. Gays are productive people. Some fly airplanes, some work in breweries. Votes: 0

Much violence against women originates in emotional territory that they already command. By midlife and early old age, as the hormones of both genders change, women are in total, despotic control of their marriages. Votes: 0

Yes, many people in rural parts of India are very orthodox and have arranged marriages. But I won't - I want to fall madly in love with someone and be whisked off my feet. Votes: 0

I think happy, companionate marriages between men and women who respect each other (as far as is consistent with being actual human beings) should be every bit as poetry-worthy as angst, bitterness, and shame. Votes: 0

If we will do our part and take a strong stand for our families, God will do His part. He'll help us to have great marriages and great relationships with our parents and children. Votes: 0

If you like somebody, they look better to you. This is why spouses in happy marriages tend to think that their husband or wife looks much better than anyone else thinks that they do. Votes: 0

When you work as actors in this business, you spend a lot of time apart. That's why a lot of marriages fail. It's not because of Hollywood, it's because you don't spend time together. Votes: 0

For me, I've never talked about my private life. It's always been about Black Sabbath. It's strange to open up and talk about me as a young lad, my relationships, marriages and what not. Votes: 0

Some people have their marriages annulled, which means they never existed. Boy, talk about denial! What do you say when people see your wedding album? 'Oh that was just some play I was in. Votes: 0

There are black marriages that are still going strong 40 years later. You hear so many myths that there aren't any people making it, but there are. As long as there are some, there's hope. Votes: 0

The gospel sets us free to become the romantic leaders of our marriages without fright or hesitation. Because we have been forever wooed by Jesus, we are now free to forever woo our wives. Votes: 0

Shaunti wields the researcher's clipboard, the analyst's data, and the counselor's insight to bring the excellent newsflash that great marriages are the culmination of definable, repetitive micromovements that add up to deep relationship satisfaction. Votes: 0

he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and social interests held together by ignorance on the one side and hypocrisy on the other. Votes: 0

The system is only as good as the person programming it. If you don't have the follow-through, your system is useless. And by the way, it's that way in parenting; it's that way in marriages. Votes: 0

I don't like dating or just living with a woman. I like to create a relationship, a marriage. And almost all of my marriages have involved children, so I'm really a family man as well. Votes: 0

I do not see the E.E.C. [European Economic Community] as a great love affair. It's more like nine middle aged couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. Votes: 0

I’m doing pretty well. If you don’t get married, you can’t get divorced. Why couldn’t we learn from the devastatingly low percentage of successful marriages that our last generation went through? Votes: 0

I hate that rule that says write about what you know, it leads to too many British novels about marriages going slightly wrong. Write about what you don't know, just act as though you do. Votes: 0

It took me a long time to be convinced that marriage was right for me because I've come from a long line of broken marriages. My parents divorced, and I had two broken marriages myself. Votes: 0

People have notions of what a wife's role should be in this process, and it's been a traditional one of blind adoration. My model is a little different - I think most real marriages are. Votes: 0