Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames. Thomas Moore
Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death. Jackie Kennedy
One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul. Honore de Balzac
First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment. Maximilian Schell
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
In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self. William Penn
Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway. Joey Adams
Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest. George Eliot
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
Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so much attention that a husband and wife, concentrating on their children, fail to notice each other's faults. Richard Armour
An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know. Bette Davis
A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage, but an ex-wife is there for the rest of your life. Jim Samuels
I'm so wrapped up in my work that it's often impossible to consider other things in my life. My marriage ended in divorce because of this, my relationship with Holly has suffered by this. Jim Carrey
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
I'm most proud of the longevity of my marriage, my kids, and my grandchildren. If you don't have that, you really don't have very much. Bob Newhart
A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises. Andre Maurois
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years. Simone Signoret
A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends. Samuel Butler