Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage. Henry Adams
Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people it's also a political and economic contract of the highest order. Elizabeth Gilbert
As somebody who, in my second marriage, insisted on a prenuptial agreement, I can also testify that sometimes it is an act of love to chart the exit strategy before you enter the union, in order to make sure that not only you, but your partner as well, knows that there will be no World War III should hearts and minds, for any sad reason, change. Elizabeth Gilbert
I think it's unfortunate that there exists only one path in America to complete social legitimacy, and that is marriage. I think, for instance, that it would be far easier for Americans to elect a black president or a female president than an unmarried president. Elizabeth Gilbert
Men go into marriage with virtually no expectations whatsoever. Ten years later, the men are delightfully surprised to find out that it's actually kind of nice, and the women have sort of had to take a nose dive from what they thought it was going to be. Elizabeth Gilbert
I was a bartender for a long time, so I know how to make drinks, but I'm more likely to offer them than to have them. I think this is one of the reasons why I get to live longer than my great-grandmother did, and why I get to produce more writing than she did, and why my marriage isn't in dire straits. Elizabeth Gilbert
I wanted my marriage to work, but it didn't. Diane Abbott
Take this marriage thing seriously - it has to last all the way to the divorce. Roseanne Barr
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
For me working on the marriage and not making the easy choice of cheating was something that I could not do. Al Goldstein
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
I think marriage and athletes is a bad combination. Dennis Rodman
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
Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner. John Updike
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
The first breath of adultery is the freest after it, constraints aping marriage develop. John Updike
Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising. E. W. Howe
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
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
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