“A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.”
Marriage is a long conversation, and these quotes capture many of its chapters — the romance, the compromise, the arguments, the inside jokes, and the deep comfort of being truly known by another person over decades.
“Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.”
“A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.”
“I think marriage is ghastly.”
“I've had two terrific relationships, but both ended in marriage.”
“Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.”
“I don't see any reason for marriage when there is divorce.”
“If I felt, in the event of a royal wedding, inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or civil partnership, I would just be grateful to have an idea for the poem. And if I didn't, I'd ignore it.”
“I'm 0 for 3 with marriage - the scoreboard doesn't lie, never has. So what we all have is a marriage of the heart. To sully or contaminate or radically disrespect this union with a shameful contract is something that I will leave to the amateurs and the Bible grippers.”
“For me working on the marriage and not making the easy choice of cheating was something that I could not do.”
“The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.”
“This marriage is no one's business but our own.”
“Marriage is a risk I think it's a great and glorious risk, as long as you embark on the adventure in the same spirit.”
“I read somewhere that Mitt and I have a 'storybook marriage.' Well, in the storybooks I read, there were never long, long, rainy winter afternoons in a house with five boys screaming at once. And those storybooks never seemed to have chapters called MS or breast cancer.”
“I believe in traditional marriage and I believe in the Defense of Marriage Act.”
“Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.”
“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.”