Marriage Quotes

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.

I hope we're a nice old couple living off the coast of Ireland or something like that-looking at our scrapbook of madness.

I was a working-class macho guy who was used to being served and Yoko didn't buy that.

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.

Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.

Man scans with scrupulous care the character and pedigree of his horses, cattle, and dogs before he matches them; but when he comes to his own marriage he rarely, or never, takes any such care.

Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

A wife's a worry, a non-wife's even worse.

The goal of our life should not be to find joy in marriage, but to bring more love and truth into the world.

There is no greater stupidity than for people...to marry and so surrender themselves to the small miseries of domestic and private life.

Marriage is the most licentious of human institutions.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.