Having blown up my own long-term marriage via an extramarital affair, followed by a traumatic divorce, I tend to think of love as less a gently glowing hearth than a set of flaming train tracks you strap yourself onto.
— Sandra Tsing Loh
I like being independent. I don't think that marriage means you're not independent, but right now I'm very comfortable, and I'm probably the happiest I've ever been. I feel solid. I feel safe.
— Sandra Lee
The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.
— Samuel Richardson
Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
— Samuel Butler
Of course, I will continue acting. I just need to dispel the Telugu and Tamil cinema's insecurities about married actresses. I don't know about others. But I am not going anywhere after marriage.
— Samantha Akkineni
I believe in the sanctity of marriage.
— Sam Brownback
The reality of marriage as the union of a mother and a father is grounded in our very biology.
— Salvatore J. Cordileone
I didn't think marriage worked. I thought everybody who was married was secretly miserable - that it was something they just put up with for their children.
— Salma Hayek
I feel birth, death, marriage is destined, and these things can't be manipulated. I have surrendered my life completely. So, whenever it happens, I will accept it.
— Sakshi Tanwar
I never thought I'd spend all my life with Gary. I suppose I was quite cynical about marriage. But with Jude, I knew right from the beginning: there was an electricity I'd never felt before. It was so easy, we talked for hours. It was a relief, really.
— Sadie Frost
An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
— Sacha Guitry
Whenever my family brought up the topic of my marriage, I'd joke that I would marry only a princess.
— S. Sreesanth
I routinely never discuss my marriage. It's nice to have things in my life that are totally mine.
— Ryan Adams
It's a facet of the gay rights movement that people don't think about enough. Why suddenly marriage equality? Because it wasn't until 1981 that the court struck down Louisiana's 'head and master rule,' that the husband was head and master of the house.
— Ruth Bader Ginsburg
I think marriage is ghastly.
— Rupert Everett
Marriage is more complex than we think.
— Ruby Dee
At Cisco, I made every decision based on what was good for the company, and that pretty much ruined my marriage and my health.
— Sandra Lerner
Why is marriage the pinnacle for everyone? People get married for the wrong reasons. We need to start looking at different packages, whether it's living together, or being with six partners, or dedicating your life to taking care of flowers.
— Sandra Bullock
Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.
Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
— Samuel Johnson
The marriage state was designed to complete the sum of human happiness in this life. It sometimes proves otherwise, but this is owing to the parties themselves, who either rush into it without due consideration or fail in point of discretion in their conduct towards each other afterwards.
— Samuel Adams
If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother.
— Sam Levenson
At my core, what I think we need to do is to get the basics right again. We need to rebuild our family structure, stay away from redefining marriage, and stand by marriage as a union between a man and a woman.
I want to focus on the importance of supporting marriage. I always speak about the need to respect everyone's human dignity - regardless of their sexual orientation. I think strengthening marriage is something that benefits everyone.
I have married thriteen couples. I'm about to do a marriage next month.
— Sally Kirkland
My background wasn't an issue for her or for her family. But if someone had said to my parents back in the 1970s that one of their children would have a mixed marriage, I think they'd have thought that was very unusual.
— Sajid Javid
I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage.
— Sade Adu
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
I'll say this: The media wasn't invited to my marriage, and they're definitely not invited into the divorce.
— Ryan Reynolds
No person connected with me by blood or marriage will be appointed to office.
— Rutherford B. Hayes
I think Mozart's operas 'The Marriage of Figaro' and 'Don Giovanni' are the two most perfect ever written. The music is magical.
May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise.
— Rumi
Marriage, like love, is an aspiration. It's a process.
I'm an activist for gay marriage equality and children's rights. I'm the face of Share Our Strength.
Although I'm sure she's completely charming and delightful, I'm not sure if Kate Middleton might be the best role model. This is a person who has got where she is by marriage, a person whose weight, clothing, hair we worry about - we don't worry about what she's thinking.
— Sandi Toksvig
Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.
A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
I am the first one to go to university in my family. I am the first writer as well. My dad is a retired policeman, and my mom works for a glass-processing company. She is health-and-safety manager, and my stepfather is a plumber. I have four half siblings, one from my mom's marriage and three from my dad's marriage, so we are kind of scattered.
— Samantha Shannon
Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career.
— Sam Ewing
In places where marriage's core meaning has been altered through legal action, officials are beginning to target for punishment those believers and churches that refuse to adapt.
My grandmother was energetic and fearless - a talented poet and songwriter. She was also interested in chemistry and history and medicine, taking care of the people in her hacienda in Mexico, delivering babies. She could have become anything, but this was the 1930s, and she was forced into an arranged marriage.
Oftentimes in a marriage, you really don't have to say anything. You can sort of have a conversation without words.
— Salim Akil
Yes, my mom does keep making references to marriage, like all mothers do, but it's only in a lighter mood... she just jokes.
— Saina Nehwal
The secret of a good marriage is forgiving your partner for marrying you in the first place.
Like so many other young South Asians in America, I am the product of two cultures whose conflicting values pull at me with equal urgency. Never have I felt as torn between the two as I do about the question of marriage.
— Sabaa Tahir
Marriage, for whatever reason, has always both interested and terrified me.
— Ryan Eggold
In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.
I was one of 14 senators to vote against the Defense of Marriage Act. I thought it was a harsh and unnecessary thing to do to people across this country who care enough about each other to want to be married.
— Russ Feingold
May these vows and this marriage be blessed.
