Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
Jean Cocteau

I have a terrific marriage, but unlike a lot of relationships where they ebb and flow, no matter what happens you fall deeper and deeper in love every day. It's kind of the best thing that can happen to you. It's thrilling.
Hugh Jackman

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
Andre Maurois

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
Andre Maurois

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
Andre Maurois

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.
Jean de la Bruyere

Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.
Jeremy Taylor

I worked with John, but I had enough sense to walk just a little ways behind him. I could have made more records, but I wanted to have a marriage.
June Carter Cash

The secret of a good marriage is forgiving your partner for marrying you in the first place.
Sacha Guitry

A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not.
Dalton Trumbo

In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.
Earl Warren

Marriage is socialism among two people.
Barbara Ehrenreich

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.
Sydney Smith

After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.
Mel Gibson

The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female.
Anna Quindlen

Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
Boris Pasternak

Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.
Eddie Cantor

I don't see any reason for marriage when there is divorce.
Catherine Deneuve

The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding.
Margaret Sanger

What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many?
Angela Carter