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.
Marilyn Monroe

I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying.
Barack Obama

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.
Mark Twain

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
Abraham Lincoln

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
C. S. Lewis

I don't think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be.
Joel Osteen

Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
Benjamin Franklin

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
Benjamin Franklin

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.
Benjamin Franklin

The heart of marriage is memories; and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns, then your marriage is a gift from the gods.
Bill Cosby

Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.
Bill Cosby

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
Friedrich Nietzsche

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
Socrates

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
Groucho Marx

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.
Groucho Marx

Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
Erma Bombeck

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.
William Shakespeare

To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.
Ogden Nash

Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.
Ogden Nash

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
Mae West