I didn't think marriage worked. I thought everybody who was married was secretly miserable - that it was something they just put up with for their children. Salma Hayek on marriage
For me working on the marriage and not making the easy choice of cheating was something that I could not do. Al Goldstein on marriage
In 1989 when I switched from Democrat to Republican, with God as my witness, not one thing changed about what I believed about one man and one woman in a marriage or about diversity of color. That's a good thing. J. C. Watts on marriage
I think marriage and athletes is a bad combination. Dennis Rodman on marriage
Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there. Paul Getty on marriage
Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner. John Updike on marriage
That a marriage ends is less than ideal but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds. John Updike on marriage
The first breath of adultery is the freest after it, constraints aping marriage develop. John Updike on marriage
Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising. E. W. Howe on marriage
Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage. John le Carre on marriage
I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make choices. If you want a good marriage, you must pay attention to that. If you want to be independent, go ahead. You can't have it all. Lauren Bacall on marriage
I was looking very much for a career. My second marriage to Stan Herman had ended, and I wanted very much to be independent, not take alimony from him, be on my own, do the right thing. Linda Evans on marriage
The only day I remember of my parents' marriage was the day my dad walked out. As I stood there at five years old, with my older sister and younger brother, I knew that he was gone. Ellie Goulding on marriage
Straight couples don't have to be monogamous to be married or married to be monogamous. Monogamy no more defines marriage than the presence of children does. Monogamy isn't compulsory and its absence doesn't invalidate a marriage. Dan Savage on marriage
I'm more afraid of marriage than death. Shakira on marriage
In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving - instead of actually getting up and leaving. Erica Jong on marriage
It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure. Herbert Samuel on marriage
Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement. Jeanette Winterson on marriage
My father was very big on marriage. Sidney Poitier on marriage
I can look back at different times in my life when I felt I could not find my way out of whatever it was. I'm not necessarily talking about marriage, but I wanted to pack it in. I wanted to disappear. A lot of that has to do with being in the public eye. Amy Grant on marriage