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

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

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.
John Updike

The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.
John Updike

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.
Isadora Duncan

Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
Henrik Ibsen

Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit.
Seamus Heaney

I'm most proud of the longevity of my marriage, my kids, and my grandchildren. If you don't have that, you really don't have very much.
Bob Newhart

I like marriage. The idea.
Toni Morrison

Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
Billy Connolly

Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.
Sydney J. Harris

We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.
Pope Benedict XVI

Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage".
Herbert Spencer

Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
Herbert Spencer

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
Thomas Moore

Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest.
Yoko Ono

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day, but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.
Barbara de Angelis

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.
Barbara de Angelis

Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.
Pearl S. Buck

I support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us.
Kinky Friedman