Of course I love being in love - but it is marriage that really fulfills me. But not in every case.
— Zsa Zsa Gabor
A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.
Marriage isn't always cupcakes and Jesus juice, but it's important to show each other your marriage is a priority and that you still love them.
— Zoe Foster Blake
I think there is some credibility to the notion that marriage is an institution. It meant something very different hundreds of years ago when it became the norm for people to go off and pair.
— Zak Orth
Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest.
— Yoko Ono
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
— Winston Churchill
President Clinton's support of the LGBT community and recognition that DOMA, the so-called Defense of Marriage Act, is unconstitutional and should be struck down shows that the political landscape continues to change in favor of LGBT equality. Leaders and allies like President Clinton are critical to moving our march for equality forward.
— Wilson Cruz
Newlyweds, they have this ideal, this picture of what marriage is like, something similar of their favorite memories growing up. If only it were that simple.
— William Taylor
Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.
— William Shakespeare
Spending only what the country can afford, rewarding savings, encouraging independence, supporting marriage: people know that these things are common sense.
— William Hague
In Italy, they say rain on your wedding day is symbolic of fresh beginnings, cleansing, a pure marriage, and also a wet knot that can't be untied.
— Whitney Wolfe Herd
When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.
— Warren Farrell
The government shouldn't be involved in this because it's very simple. If you don't believe in same-sex marriage, then don't marry somebody of the same sex.
— Wanda Sykes
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
My sister is a lesbian and I want her to have that same feeling. A civil partnership is not the same as marriage. She's in a serious relationship with a girl I am obsessed with. I would love her to marry her girlfriend because I love her so much.
— Vogue Williams
I don't mind an arranged marriage. The girl my parents choose could be the girl of my dreams.
— Vivek Oberoi
No intelligent government can continue to ignore the urgent priority of giving support and practical encouragement to marriage and family stability as the first response to growing social needs.
— Vincent Nichols
Every girl should be married at least once in her life. It's a must. Because once you have been married, you are a Mrs., and even if the marriage doesn't work out, they can't take that away from you.
We are very puritan in America. We still hold true to these really antiquated values, this idea of the sanctity of marriage.
— Zoe Lister-Jones
It's important to show each other your marriage is a priority.
Marriage is a difficult project. When seven years have passed and all your body's cells have been replaced, you're meant to experience that seven-year itch.
Marriage is the death of hope.
— Woody Allen
I was married to the ANC. It was the best marriage I ever had.
— Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
For women of my generation, it was the 'juggling act.' Jobs, marriage, children, homes, and aging parents were the balls we added, tossing them in the air as our lives filled up and praying they wouldn't come crashing down on our heads.
— Willow Bay
Marriage is a reflection of your life in general: how you treat people, how you argue, how secure you are in your own thoughts. How vehemently do you argue your point of view? With what disdain do you view the other's point of view?
— William Shatner
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
Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
— William Congreve
New Orleans, more than many places I know, actually tangibly lives its culture. It's not just a residual of life; it's a part of life. Music is at every major milestone of our life: birth, marriage, death. It's our culture.
— Wendell Pierce
I would say that I wasn't so much afraid of marriage as afraid of divorce.
— Warren Beatty
I don't think it's in any way harmful, this marriage of media and politicians. I think it enhances the communications process considerably and makes it possible for the public to be far more aware, far more up-to-date on issues and the opposite sides of the issues.
— Walter Cronkite
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
— Voltaire
Marriage is a great thing and it's nice to have that family bond with someone.
Anybody with a sharp brain and a mic can become a comedian, but there's a need to move beyond it. The audience wants to witness the marriage of theatre, comedy and something more.
— Vir Das
For a healthy society, those laws and conventions should always support marriage as an institution characterised by an openness to children and the responsibility of fathers and mothers remaining together to care for children born into their family.
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
Hamish is worried about ending up like my parents, who each spend time in their two homes in Bundanoon and Sydney. But that's how their marriage has lasted.
Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage.
— Zig Ziglar
We live too long for one marriage.
Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.
The seeds of marriage equality... were planted on MTV.
I always felt as though, 'If nothing else, I have a successful marriage.'
— Willie Aames
I love the concept of togetherness and the entwinement of marriage.
Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.
— William O. Douglas
The high arts of literature and music stand in a curious relationship to one another, at once securely comfortable and deeply uneasy - rather like a long-term marriage.
— Will Self
Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.
— Washington Irving
Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.
Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.
My marriage broke up when what I really wanted in my life was children. I really worried about it and thought, 'I'm not married anymore. I'm probably never going to get the chance to have children.' All those things run through your mind.
I definitely have a happy marriage and family life.
— Viola Davis
