Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest. – George Eliot
An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring… I ought to know. – Bette Davis
More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed. – Rainer Maria Rilke
A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage, but an ex-wife is there for the rest of your life. – Jim Samuels
Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples? – Ted Olson
A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises. – Andre Maurois
Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity? – Samuel Butler
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. – Jane Austen
A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting. – Helen Rowland
Marriage changes everything. – Marilyn Manson
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
Books and marriage go ill together. – Moliere
Our Nation must defend the sanctity of marriage. – George W. Bush
Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome. – Jerry Seinfeld
Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play. – William Congreve
A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after. – Gloria Steinem
Gay marriage is going to happen. It must. – Lady Gaga
I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman. – George W. Bush
Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking. – Marvin Gaye
