Marriage Quotes

More permanent and genuine happiness is to be found in the sequestered walks of connubial life than in the giddy rounds of promiscuous pleasure.

I have always considered marriage as the most interesting event of one's life, the foundation of happiness or misery.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

They'd imprisoned me for so long. I was abused. I didn't get to see my children grow up. I lost my marriage and the best years of my life. I was angry. And I was afraid, because I had not been free in so long. But as I got closer to the car that would take me away, I realized that when I went through that gate, if I still hated them, they would still have me. I wanted to be free. And so I let it go.

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

How the hell can a person go to work in the morning and come home in the evening and have nothing to say.

No age is good to get married at. You got to be a fool to get married.

Our love affair ended in tears but a deep bond grew out of it, and that's something nobody can take away from us. It's unreachable.

All my lovers asked me why they couldn't replace Mary, but it's simply impossible. The only friend I've got is Mary and I don't want anybody else. To me, she was my common-law wife. To me, it was a marriage. We believe in each other, that's enough for me.

What helped a lot was becoming a dad at 47. I can't begin to imagine how I would have coped when I was just starting out with Simply Red. Gabriella and I would have been another one of those divorce statistics.

As for his secret to staying married: "My wife tells me that if I ever decide to leave, she is coming with me."

Me never believe in marriage that much. Marriage is a trap to control me; woman is a coward. Man strong.

The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family.

I love songs about horses, railroads, land, Judgment Day, family, hard times, whiskey, courtship, marriage, adultery, separation, murder, war, prison, rambling, damnation, home, salvation, death, pride, humor, piety, rebellion, patriotism, larceny, determination, tragedy, rowdiness, heartbreak and love. And Mother. And God.

Make sure you have your own life before becoming someone's wife.

A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then it's too late.

The press is just not your friend when it comes to a marriage. That's why we didn't sell the pictures of our wedding, and we got offered millions of dollars for them, millions.

I don't want to be married. I'm very happy with a civil partnership. If gay people want to get married, or get together, they should have a civil partnership. The word 'marriage,' I think, puts a lot of people off. You get the same equal rights that we do when we have a civil partnership. Heterosexual people get married. We can have civil partnerships.

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.