What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.
Gertrude Stein

Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.
Dick Gregory

On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable.
Emma Goldman

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.
Franz Kafka

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
Michel de Montaigne

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
Michel de Montaigne

Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
Michel de Montaigne

I know that the odds are against a marriage lasting 60 years.
Darrell Royal

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

There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.
Princess Diana

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself; you want to try even harder to make it work.
Princess Diana

Marriage is a great institution.
Elizabeth Taylor

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
W. H. Auden

Sometimes I bust out and do things so permanent. Like tattoos and marriage.
Drew Barrymore

Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.
Bertrand Russell

Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
St. Jerome

I was against gay marriage until I realized I didn't have to get one.
James Carville