I'm also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage - which no previous society has ever believed.
Alain de Botton

I like marriage. The idea.
Toni Morrison

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

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

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

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.
James Dobson

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

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

A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
Samuel Butler

Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
Samuel Butler

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Mignon McLaughlin

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

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

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

I think marriage and athletes is a bad combination.
Dennis Rodman

Well, my wife and I were married in a toilet - it was a marriage of convenience!
Tommy Cooper