marriage:

1. The act of marrying.

2. The state of being married or united as man and wife .

See marriage [SYN] for synonyms.

QUOTES:

(1) Trixie (Lillian Roth) in Madam Satan (1930): ' Something for nothing , that's the marriage game .'

(2) Rhett Butler (Clark Gable) and Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) in Gone with the Wind (1939):
-- Rhet: ' Did you ever think of marrying just for fun? '
-- Scarlett: ' Marriage, fun. Fiddle-dee-dee. Fun for men, you mean .'

(3) Jean Newton (Ginger Rogers) and David Grant (Ronald Colman) in Lucky Partners (1940):
-- Jean: ' You don't believe in marriage? '
-- David: ' That institution, like the Coliseum in Rome, is still standing , but it certainly shows the ravages of time, doesn't it? '

(4) Ronald Kornblow (Groucho Marx) to Pierre (Charles Drake) and his fiancee Annette (Lois Collin) in A Night in Casablanca (1946):-- Ronald: ' Why don't you two lovebirds get married? '
-- Pierre: ' Oh, marriage is impossible .'
-- Ronald: ' Only after you're married .'

(5) Charlie Bewell (Louis Calhern) to his daughter Susan (Lucille Ball) in Forever, Darling (1956): ' The thing to remember is that in marriage the husband and wife are one... and the husband is the one .'

(6) Lorelei Lee (Marilyn Monroe) to Dorothy Shaw (Jane Russell) who is in-love-with a cheap detective in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953):
-- Lorelei: ' You don't want to end up with a loveless marriage , do you? '
-- Dorothy: ' Me?! Loveless?! '
-- Lorelei: ' That's right. Because if a girl spends all her time worrying about the money she doesn't have, how is she going to have any time for being in love? I want you to find happiness and stop having fun .'

(7) Big Mama Pollit (Judith Anderson) to Maggie Pollit (Elizabeth Taylor) while tapping the bed in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958): ' When a marriage goes on the rocks , the rocks are there, right there .'

(8) Horace Vandergelder (Paul Ford), at 65, plans to marry again in The Matchmaker (1958): ' I like my house run well, with order, comfort and economy. That's a woman's work . But even a woman can't do-it well if she's merely paid for it . In order to run a house well a woman must have the feeling that she owns it . So, marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder .'

(9) Michael James (Peter O'Toole) to his fiancée (Romy Schneider) about marriage in What's New Pussycat? (1965): ' Now is the time to live and experiment. Marriage is for life . It's like cement .'

(10) Harry Hinkle (Jack Lemmon) in The Fortune Cookie (1966): ' Funny thing about marriage . It's like being in the army. Everybody knocks it but you'd be surprised how many re-enlist .'

(11) Oscar (Walter Matthau) in The Odd Couple (1968): ' Takes two to make a rotten marriage .'

(12) Luna Schlosser (Diane Keaton) and Miles Monroe (Woody Allen) who was frozen in the year 1973 and awakened in 2173 in Sleeper (1973):
-- Luna: ' It's hard to believe you haven't had sex for two hundred years .'
-- Miles: ' Two hundred and four if you count my marriage .'

(13) Leo Schneider (Joseph Bologna) in Chapter Two (1979): ' The problem with marriage is that it's relentless. Every morning when you wake up it's still there. If I could just get a leave of absence once in a while. I used to get them all the time in the army. I always came back .'

(14) Kevin (Andrew McCarthy) and Alec (Judd Nelson) in St. Elmo's Fire (1985):
-- Kevin: ' The notion of two people spending their entire lives together was invented by people who were lucky to make-it to twenty without being eaten by dinosaurs. Marriage is obsolete .'
-- Alec: ' Dinosaurs are obsolete. Marriage is still around .'

(15) Mrs. White (Madeline Kahn) in Clue (1986): ' Life after death is as improbable as sex after marriage .'

(16) The Council Chief (Tony Jay), consulting The Monchine, a dictionary, to Celeste (Kim Basinger) in My Stepmother is an Alien (1988): ' The Monchine 40 says: Marriage is this. He goes off to fight the Turks and you put on a lock . (2nd definition.) Marriage is this: You cook and clean and bring him martinis. (3rd definition.) The modern marriage . There are no rules or responsabilities but if he does something wrong you can set him on fire while he sleeps and go on a talk show where everybody will forgive you and love you .'

(17) Jimmy (Tom Selleck) in An Innocent Man (1989): ' Marriage... the final frontier! '

(18) Divorce lawyer Gavin D'Amato (Danny DeVito) in War of the Roses (1989): ' If love is blind , marriage is like having a stroke .'

(19) Oliver Rose (Michael Douglas) to his wife Barbara (Kathleen Turner) in Dinner at Eight (1989): ' I'm more than happy, I'm way past happy, I'm... married .'

(20) Finn (Winona Ryder) to Marianna (Alfre Woodard) in How to Make an American Quilt (1995): ' You see , what they don't tell us is that marriage is this anachronistic institution created for the sole convenience of the father who needs to pass off his daughters to the care of another man . Like 'here, here, she eats too much. Take her off my hands', you know? But now, now that we've gotten our independence, that we earn our own livings, there's no purpose to being someone's wife . Why can't we love as many people as we want in a lifetime? '

(21) Garth Algar (Dana Carvey) and Wayne Campbell (Mike Myers) in Wayne's World (1992):
-- Garth: ' Are you going to marry her? '
-- Wayne: ' Garth, marriage is punishment for shop-lifting in some countries .'

(22) Charlie McCarthy (voice of Edgar Bergen) in Look Who's Laughing (1941): ' Love is like champagne , marriage is the headache and divorce is the aspirin tablet .'

(23) Shirley (Pauline Collins) in Shirley Valentine (1989): ' You can't bring logic into this. We're talking about marriage . Marriage is like the Middle East. There's no solution .'

(24) Chester Wooley (Lou Costello) refusing to marry the Widow Hawkins (Marjorie Main) in The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap (1947): ' Mrs. Hawkins, marriage is nothing but a three ring circus : first the engagement ring , and then the wedding ring , and then the suffering .'

(25) Marlo Manners (Mae West) in Sextette (1978): ' Marriage is like a book. The whole story takes place between covers .'

(26) Gwyn (Sarah Jessica Parker) at the end of Miami Rhapsody (1994): ' I guess I look at marriage sort of the same way I look at Miami: It's hot and it's stormy and it's, you know , it's occasionally a little dangerous, but if it's really so awful then why is there still so much traffic? '

(27) A 12-year old Hutterian, Ezechiel/Zeke (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) married to a much older Havana/Betsy Iggets (Patricia Arquette) in Holy Matrimony (1994):
-- Ezechiel: ' I don't think our marriage is working .'
-- Havana: ' Then we have something in common with every married couple in America .'

(28) Phyllis Nefler (Shelley Long) and her husband Freddie (Craig T. Nelson) who is filing for divorce in Troop Beverly Hills (1989):
-- Phyllis : ' Did it ever occur to you that marriage is a partnership? '
-- Freedie: ' Yeah, that's right. I earn the money and my partner spends it .'

(29) Mrs Yussim (Jane Hoffman) to Margaret Reynolds (Barbra Streisand) in Up the Sandbox (1972): ' Remember, marriage is a seventy-five, twenty-five proposition . The woman gives seventy-five .'

(30) Henny Youngman: ' Marriage is the billing after the cooing .'

(31) William Shakespeare: ' Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything .'

(32) Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914): ' Marriage: a master , a mistress and two slaves, making in all two .'

(33) Murray (Jason Robards) to Sandra (Barbara Harris) in A Thousand Clowns (1965):
-- Murray Burns: ' Will you marry me? '
-- Sandra Moskowitz: ' What!? '
-- Murray Burns: ' Just a bit of shock treatment there. I have found, after long experience, it's the quickest way to get a woman's attention when her mind wanders. Always works .'

(34) Rufus T. Firefly (Groucho Marx) flirting with Gloria Teasdale (Margaret Dumont) in Duck Soup (1933): ' Married! I can see you now, in the kitchen , bending over a hot stove, but I can't see the stove .'

(35) Daisy Heath (Margaret Sullavan) to her maid Martha (Hattie McDaniel) in The Shopworn Angel (1938): ' Why do you want to get married anyway? When a man knows he's got you then you haven't got him .'

(36) Julie (Lucille Ball) and Charlie (voice of Edgar Bergen) in Look Who's Laughing (1941):
-- Julie Patterson: ' Marriage is a strong institution, Charlie .'
-- Charlie McCarthy: ' So is Alcatraz, but I wouldn't want to live in it .'

(37) Monty Woolley (as himself) in Night and Day (1946): ' The only marriage I ever approved of was that of my father and mother .'

(38) Gwyn (Sarah Jessica Parker) at the end of Miami Rhapsody (1994): ' I guess I look at marriage sort of the same way I look at Miami: It's hot and it's stormy and it's, you know , it's occasionally a little dangerous, but if it's really so awful then why is there still so much traffic? '

(39) Oliver Rose (Michael Douglas) to his wife Barbara (Kathleen Turner) in The War of the Roses (1989): ' I'm more than happy, I'm way past happy, I'm... married .'

(40) Gambler Sky Masterson (Marlon Brando) in Guys and Dolls (1955): ' No matter who you marry you wake up married to someone else .'

(41) Ira Skitch (Will Rogers) to his son-in-law in Mr. Skitch (1933): ' A wife is a wonderful thing and no husband should be without one. Now, Harvey, I'm gonna give you a bit of advice from an old veteran husband to an amateur . The most dangerous year in married life is the first , then comes the second, and the third, and the fourth, and on down . Marriage is an institution. I've been an inmate of that institution long enough to know that the most successful marriage in one where the wife is the boss and don't know it .'

(42) Nina (Susan Anspach) and Stephen Blume (George Segal) in Blume in Love (1973):-- Nina: ' We could live-together for a while .'-- Stephen: ' The trouble with living together is that you're always thinking when are you gonna stop living together and get married and really start living together .'

(43) Larry (William Powell) to his wife Kay (Myrna Loy) in I Love You Again (1940): ' You know , a divorce can break-up a marriage .'

(44) Norma Lindt (Evelyn Ankers) and Ferdie Jones (Lou Costello) in Hold That Ghost (1941):
-- Norma: ' What happened to Camille? '
-- Ferdie: ' Me and her had a runaway marriage .'
-- Norma: ' A runaway marriage? '
-- Ferdie: ' Yeah. She got the marriage license and I run away .'

Synonyms: double-act, double-harness, holy-bed-and-board, (the) holy knot, holy wedlock, (the) knot that binds, life-contract, marital state, marry-making, matrimony, conjugality, connubiality, (the) tie that binds, wedlock, TO MARRY / TO WED, accept-a-proposal, altar-it, ankle-up-the-aisle, become-houseproud, become-man-and-wife, bestow-one's-hand, break-one's-elbow-at-the-church, bride-and-groom-it, commit-merger, conjugate, do-it, do-the-altar-thing, do-the-Mendelssohn-March, feather-one's-bed, get-altared, get-bundled, get-cemented, get-churched, get-exclusive-rights-to, get-hitched, get-hooked, get-in-double-harness, get-it-sealed, get-papers, get-parsoned, get-settled, get-spliced, get-welded, give-oneself-in-marriage, give-up-one's-freedom, go-domestic, go-over-the-deep-end, groom-it, hang-up-one's-hat, have-it-tied, have-the-knot-knotted, hitch-horses, hitch up, hook-up, hyphenate, join-hands-with, join-the-household-brigade, jump-the-besom, make-an-honest-woman-of, make-it-legal, make-marry, make-the-legal-move, marry-oneself-to, mate, mate-with, mesh, Mr.and Mrs. It, plight-one's-troth, put-on-the-ball-and-chain, put-on-the-double-act, put-on-the-(old)-noose, quit-the-single-state, renounce-bachelorhood, say-I-do, settle-down, take-the-fatal-leap, take-the-fatal-step, take-the-final-step, take-the-high-dive, take the jump, take the leap, take-the-plunge, take-the-vows, tie-the-knot-(that-binds), tie-up-with, unite-oneself-with, walk-down-the-aisle, walk-down-the-middle-aisle, walk-the-middle-aisle, Also: to 'I do' it / to say 'I do', MARRIED / WEDDED, anchored, betrothed, bewifed, bone-of-one's-bone-and-flesh-of-one's-flesh, bundled, cash-and-carried, churched, City-Halled, cut-and-carried, dragging-an-anchor, engaged, espoused, gone-and-done-it, gotten-hitched, hitched, hooked, in-double-harness, in harness, dot-and-carried, joined, joined-in-holy-matrimony, knotted, made-man-and-wife, made-one, matched, mated, meshed, missis-ed, paired, parsoned, partnered, sentenced-(for-life), share a (one's) bed with, signed,-sealed-and-delivered, spliced, tied, tied-the-knot, united, united-in-wedlock, wedded, welded, yoked, RELATED TERMS, bigamous, digamous, honeymooning, commitment-ceremony, ill-matched, just married, mismarried, monogamous, much-married, newly married, newly-wed, polyandrous, polygamistic, polygamous, polygynous, remarried.

See Also: 6-2-9, 6-to-9, a mensa et thoro, a vinculo matrimonii, abduct, absolute divorce, accept a proposal, adelphogamy, agapemone, agaptism, age of consent, alphamegamia, altar it, alternative lifestyle, alternative lovestyle, Ananga Ranga, anchored, anisogamia, ankle up the aisle, Athor, banns, bans, battle of the sexes, be fruitful and multiply, beat the gun, become houseproud, become man and wife, bed rite, bestow one's hand, better half, bewifed, bigamy, billie-coo, bone of one's bone and flesh of one's flesh, boy marriage, break one's elbow at the church, bride and groom it, bundled, bush child, bust up, carnal pleasures, cash and carried, casigamy marriage, celibacy, celibate, chastity, chuppah, churched, City-Halled, closed marriage, cluster marriage, co husband, co wife, commit merger, commitment ceremony, common-law marriage, conjugal, conjugal relations, conjugal rites, conjugals, conjugate, connubial, connubial pleasures, connubial relations, connubium, consummate a marriage, consummate a relationship, consummate a union, country marriage, couple, cuckold the parson, cut and carried, dinner without grace, divorce, do the altar thing, do the Mendelssohn March, dot and carried, dotal, double act, double harness, dowry, dragging an anchor, effeminate, espoused, extramarital, feather one's bed, fire the question, fork and spoon, free love, free lover, free loving, free lovism, front marriage, gametophobia, gamophobia, gayness, get altared, get bundled, get cemented, get churched, get exclusive rights to, get hitched, get hooked, get in double harness, get it sealed, get papers, get parsoned, get settled, get spliced, get welded, give oneself in marriage, give up one's freedom, go domestic, go over the deep end, gone and done it, gotten hitched, groom it, hang up one's hat, Hathor, have it tied, have the knot knotted, heavy date, hit-and-run marriage, hitch, hitch horses, hitched, holy bed and board, holy bedlock, holy knot, the, home wrecker, honeymoon, honeymoon bladder, honeymoon cystitis, hook up, hooked, huppah, husband, hymenal, hymeneal, hyphenate, hyphenated, hypogamy, idiogamist, illicit relations, illicit sex, in double harness, in-law, incest taboo, infidelity, intermarriage, January and May marriage, join hands with, join the household brigade, joined in holy matrimony, joint, jump the besom, jump the gun, knot that binds, the, knotted, leaping over the sword, left-handed, life contract, lifer, little woman, the, live together, living in sin, long-term relationship, loop-de-loop, love match, lovebirds, lovemaking, made man and wife, made one, make an honest woman of, make it legal, make marry, make the legal move, marital, marital duty, marital relations, marital rights, marriage, marriage in name only, marriage joys, married, married but not churched, married country style, married on the carpet and the banns up the chimney, marry oneself to, marry-making, matched, mate, mate with, mated, matrimonial, matrimony, mesh, meshed, misogamist, misogamy, missis-ed, monogamous, monogamy, more or less married, Mr. and Mrs. it, new celibacy, noose, nuptial rights, on the side, open marriage, paired, parsoned, pederastic marriage, pity fuck, plight one's troth, pop the question, propose, proposish, proposition someone, puppy love, put on the (old) noose, put on the ball and chain, put on the double act, quit the single state, reno-it, Reno-vate, Reno-vation, renounce bachelorhood, save oneself for marriage, say I do, sentenced (for life), settle down, seven year itch, share a bed with, share one's bed, shotgun marriage, shotgun wedding, signed, sealed and delivered, spliced, spoffskins, starter marriage, take the fatal jump, take the fatal leap, take the fatal step, take the final step, take the high dive, take the plunge, take the vows, tie that binds, the, tie the knot (that binds), tie up with, tied the knot, troth, trousseau, turn (someone's) head, unholy wedlock, unite oneself with, united, united in holy bedlock, united in holy matrimony, united in wedlock, virgin queen, walk down the aisle, walk down the middle aisle, walk the middle aisle, wedded, wedding kit, wedding tackle, welded, whiff of lavender, wife, without benefit of who cares, yoked

Quotes Containing marriage:
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914): 'Marriage: a master , a mistress and two slaves, making in all two.'
Henny Youngman: 'Marriage is the billing after the cooing.'
Norma Lindt (Evelyn Ankers) and Ferdie Jones (Lou Costello) in Hold That Ghost (1941): - Norma: 'What happened to Camille?' - Ferdie: 'Me and her had a runaway marriage .' - Norma: 'A runaway marriage?' - Ferdie: 'Yeah. She got the marriage license and I run away.'
Jimmy (Tom Selleck) in An Innocent Man (1989): 'Marriage... the final frontier!'
Oscar (Walter Matthau) in The Odd Couple (1968): 'Takes two to make a rotten marriage .'
Trixie (Lillian Roth) in Madam Satan (1930): 'Something for nothing , that's the marriage game .'
The Council Chief (Tony Jay), consulting The Monchine, a dictionary, to Celeste (Kim Basinger) in My Stepmother is an Alien (1988): 'The Monchine 40 says: Marriage is this. He goes off to fight the Turks and you put on a lock . (2nd definition.) Marriage is this: You cook and clean and bring him martinis. (3rd definition.) The modern marriage . There are no rules or responsabilities but if he does something wrong you can set him on fire while he sleeps and go on a talk show where everybody will forgive you and love you.'
Shirley (Pauline Collins) in Shirley Valentine (1989): 'You can't bring logic into this. We're talking about marriage . Marriage is like the Middle East. There's no solution.'
Michael James (Peter O'Toole) to his fiance (Romy Schneider) about marriage in What's New Pussycat? (1965): 'Now is the time to live and experiment. Marriage is for life . It's like cement.'
Kevin (Andrew McCarthy) and Alec (Judd Nelson) in St. Elmo's Fire (1985): - Kevin: 'The notion of two people spending their entire lives together was invented by people who were lucky to make-it to twenty without being eaten by dinosaurs. Marriage is obsolete.' - Alec: 'Dinosaurs are obsolete. Marriage is still around.'
Mrs. White (Madeline Kahn) in Clue (1986): 'Life after death is as improbable as sex after marriage .'
Divorce lawyer Gavin D''Amato (Danny DeVito) in War of the Roses (1989): ''If love is blind , marriage is like having a stroke .''
Marlo Manners (Mae West) in Sextette (1978): 'Marriage is like a book. The whole story takes place between covers. '
Charlie McCarthy (voice of Edgar Bergen) in Look Who's Laughing (1941): 'Love is like champagne , marriage is the headache and divorce is the aspirin tablet.'
Divorce lawyer Gavin D'Amato (Danny DeVito) in War of the Roses (1989): 'If love is blind , marriage is like having a stroke .'
Ira Skitch (Will Rogers) to his son-in-law in Mr. Skitch (1933): 'A wife is a wonderful thing and no husband should be without one. Now, Harvey, I'm gonna give you a bit of advice from an old veteran husband to an amateur . The most dangerous year in married life is the first , then comes the second, and the third, and the fourth, and on down . Marriage is an institution. I've been an inmate of that institution long enough to know that the most successful marriage in one where the wife is the boss and don't know it .'
Monty Woolley (as himself) in Night and Day (1946): 'The only marriage I ever approved of was that of my father and mother .'
Sir Percy Blakeney's (Richard E. Grant) pun on the word 'sentence' in the mini TV series The Scarlet Pimpernel (1998): 'Marriage isn't a word, it's a sentence.'
Larry (William Powell) to his wife Kay (Myrna Loy) in I Love You Again (1940): 'You know , a divorce can break-up a marriage .'
Humorously defined by Louis J. Safian in An Irreverent Dictionary of Love and Marriage as: 'A woman who gets bed and boredom.'
Ira Skitch (Will Rogers) to his son-in-law in Mr. Skitch (1933): 'A wife is a wonderful thing and no husband should be without one. Now, Harvey, I'm gonna give you a bit of advice from an old veteran husband to an amateur . The most dangerous year in married life is the first , then comes the second, and the third, and the fourth, and on down . Marriage is an institution. I've been an inmate of that institution long enough to know that the most successful marriage in one where the wife is the boss and don't know it .'
Charlie McCarthy (voice of Edgar Bergen) in Look Who''s Laughing (1941): ''Love is like champagne , marriage is the headache and divorce is the aspirin tablet.''
Larry (William Powell) to his wife Kay (Myrna Loy) in I Love You Again (1940): ''You know , a divorce can break-up a marriage .''
Tim and Beverly Lehaye. The Act of Marriage (1975): ''Masturbation is the thief of love .''
Tim and Beverly Lehaye. The Act of Marriage (1975): ''Masturbation is the thief of love .''
Divorce lawyer Gavin D''Amato (Danny DeVito) in War of the Roses (1989): ''If love is blind , marriage is like having a stroke .''
Sir Percy Blakeney (Richard E. Grant) and his wife Lady Marguerite Blakeney (Elizabeth McGovern) in the mini TV series The Scarlet Pimpernel (1998): - Sir Percy : ''The poets tell us love is blind .'' - Lady Blakeney: ''The miracle of marriage opens our eyes .''
A journalist (Michael O''Keefe) and Nina (Laura San Giacomo) in Nina Takes a Lover (1995): - Journalist: ''There are basically two arguments about infidelity . One is that you''re either born monogamous or you''re not and the other is that we''re all capable, certain conditions in a marriage provoke it .'' - Nina: ''What do you think?'' - Journalist: ''I think it''s a little bit of both.''
Humorously defined by Louis J. Safian in An Irreverent Dictionary of Love and Marriage (1966) as: ''A time-saver; but lots of married people wish they had wiped their glasses for a good second look.''
The journalist (Michael O''Keefe) and Nina (Laura San Giacomo) in Nina Takes a Lover (1995): - Journalist: ''There are basically two arguments about infidelity . One is that you''re either born monogamous or you''re not and the other is that we''re all capable, certain conditions in a marriage provoke it .'' - Nina: ''What do you think?'' - Journalist: ''I think it''s a little bit of both.''
Loretta Castorini (Cher) to Johnny Cammareri (Danny Aiello) in Moonstruck (1987): ''Johnny, it''s for luck. I mean a man proposes marriage to a woman , he should kneel down .''
Gwyn (Sarah Jessica Parker) at the end of Miami Rhapsody (1994): 'I guess I look at marriage sort of the same way I look at Miami: It's hot and it's stormy and it's, you know , it's occasionally a little dangerous, but if it's really so awful then why is there still so much traffic?'
A 12-year old Hutterian, Ezechiel/Zeke (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) married to a much older Havana/Betsy Iggets (Patricia Arquette) in Holy Matrimony (1994): - Ezechiel: 'I don't think our marriage is working. ' - Havana: 'Then we have something in common with every married couple in America.'
Phyllis Nefler (Shelley Long) and her husband Freddie (Craig T. Nelson) who is filing for divorce in Troop Beverly Hills (1989): - Phyllis : 'Did it ever occur to you that marriage is a partnership?' - Freedie: 'Yeah, that's right. I earn the money and my partner spends it .'
Mrs Yussim (Jane Hoffman) to Margaret Reynolds (Barbra Streisand) in Up the Sandbox (1972): 'Remember, marriage is a seventy-five, twenty-five proposition . The woman gives seventy-five.'
Chester Wooley (Lou Costello) refusing to marry the Widow Hawkins (Marjorie Main) in The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap (1947): 'Mrs. Hawkins, marriage is nothing but a three ring circus : first the engagement ring , and then the wedding ring , and then the suffering.'
Julie (Lucille Ball) and Charlie (voice of Edgar Bergen) in Look Who's Laughing (1941): - Julie Patterson: 'Marriage is a strong institution, Charlie .' - Charlie McCarthy: 'So is Alcatraz, but I wouldn't want to live in it .'
Twelve year old Hutterian Brethren Ezechiel/Zeke (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) married to much older Havana/Betsy Iggets (Patricia Arquette) in Holy Matrimony (1994): - Zeke:''I don''t think our marriage is working. '' - Havana:''Then we have something in common with every married couple in America.''
Leo Schneider (Joseph Bologna) in Chapter Two (1979): 'The problem with marriage is that it's relentless. Every morning when you wake up it's still there. If I could just get a leave of absence once in a while. I used to get them all the time in the army. I always came back .'
Gwyn (Sarah Jessica Parker) at the end of Miami Rhapsody (1994): 'I guess I look at marriage sort of the same way I look at Miami: It's hot and it's stormy and it's, you know , it's occasionally a little dangerous, but if it's really so awful then why is there still so much traffic?'
Garth Algar (Dana Carvey) and Wayne Campbell (Mike Myers) in Wayne's World (1992): - Garth: 'Are you going to marry her?' - Wayne: 'Garth, marriage is punishment for shop-lifting in some countries.'
A journalist (Michael O''Keefe) and Nina (Laura San Giacomo) in Nina Takes a Lover (1995): - Journalist: ''There are basically two arguments about infidelity . One is that you''re either born monogamous or you''re not and the other is that we''re all capable, certain conditions in a marriage provoke it .'' - Nina: ''What do you think?'' - Journalist: ''I think it''s a little bit of both.''
Marquise de Merteuil (Glenn Close) in Dangerous Liaisons (1988): ''When it comes to marriage one man is as good as the next, and even the least accomodating is less trouble than a mother .''
Marquise de Merteuil (Glenn Close) in Dangerous Liaisons (1988): ''When it comes to marriage one man is as good as the next, and even the least accomodating is less trouble than a mother .''
Rhett Butler (Clark Gable) and Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) in Gone with the Wind (1939): - Rhet: 'Did you ever think of marrying just for fun?' - Scarlett: 'Marriage, fun. Fiddle-dee-dee. Fun for men, you mean.'
Jean Newton (Ginger Rogers) and David Grant (Ronald Colman) in Lucky Partners (1940): - Jean: 'You don't believe in marriage?' - David: 'That institution, like the Coliseum in Rome, is still standing , but it certainly shows the ravages of time, doesn't it?'
Bert (Robert Lindsay) speaking of Tess Trample (Carmen Du Sautoy) and her husband Sid (Robbie Coltrane) in Bert Rigby, You''re a Fool (1989): ''A nympho and a schizo; their marriage was a perfect blend of sex and violence.''
Charlie Bewell (Louis Calhern) giving fatherly advice to his daughter Susan Dewell Vega (Lucille Ball) on her wedding day in Forever, Darling (1956): ''The thing to remember is that in marriage the husband and wife are one... and the husband is the one.''
Ronald Kornblow (Groucho Marx) to Pierre (Charles Drake) and his fiancee Annette (Lois Collin) in A Night in Casablanca (1946): - Ronald: 'Why don't you two lovebirds get married?' - Pierre: 'Oh, marriage is impossible.' - Ronald: 'Only after you're married .'
Charlie Bewell (Louis Calhern) to his daughter Susan (Lucille Ball) in Forever, Darling (1956): 'The thing to remember is that in marriage the husband and wife are one... and the husband is the one.'
Lorelei Lee (Marilyn Monroe) to Dorothy Shaw (Jane Russell) who is in-love-with a cheap detective in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953): - Lorelei: 'You don't want to end up with a loveless marriage , do you?' - Dorothy: 'Me?! Loveless?!' - Lorelei: 'That's right. Because if a girl spends all her time worrying about the money she doesn't have, how is she going to have any time for being in love? I want you to find happiness and stop having fun.'
Luna Schlosser (Diane Keaton) and Miles Monroe (Woody Allen) who was frozen in the year 1973 and awakened in 2173 in Sleeper (1973): - Luna: 'It's hard to believe you haven't had sex for two hundred years.' - Miles: 'Two hundred and four if you count my marriage .'
Big Mama Pollit (Judith Anderson) to Maggie Pollit (Elizabeth Taylor) while tapping the bed in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958): 'When a marriage goes on the rocks , the rocks are there, right there.'
Horace Vandergelder (Paul Ford), at 65, plans to marry again in The Matchmaker (1958): 'I like my house run well, with order, comfort and economy. That's a woman's work . But even a woman can't do-it well if she's merely paid for it . In order to run a house well a woman must have the feeling that she owns it . So, marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder.'
Harry Hinkle (Jack Lemmon) in The Fortune Cookie (1966): 'Funny thing about marriage . It's like being in the army. Everybody knocks it but you'd be surprised how many re-enlist.'
Iram Katourian (Jack Lemmon) talking to his mistress Irene (Joanna Gleason) about his wife Millie (Talia Shire) in For Richer, For Poorer (1992): - Irene: 'Iram, do you really think that your money has anything to do with Millie's sex drive?' - Iram: 'Oh, absolutely. You've heard the phrase: power is an aphrodisiac? That applies to marriage especially. See, a poor man has tremendous power over his wife . She needs him. Without his support, her, the kids... she humps the hell out of him. The richer a man is the less his wife is depending upon him, the less power he has over her and the less sexy he becomes to her. It's a law of nature.' - Irene: 'Horniness equals dependence times poverty squared.'
Finn (Winona Ryder) to Marianna (Alfre Woodard) in How to Make an American Quilt (1995): 'You see , what they don't tell us is that marriage is this anachronistic institution created for the sole convenience of the father who needs to pass off his daughters to the care of another man . Like 'here, here, she eats too much. Take her off my hands', you know? But now, now that we've gotten our independence, that we earn our own livings, there's no purpose to being someone's wife . Why can't we love as many people as we want in a lifetime?'
Captain Jeffrey Spaulding (Groucho Marx) proposing marriage to both Mrs. Rittenhouse (Margaret Dumont) and Mrs. Whitehead (Margaret Irving) in Animal Crackers (1930): - Spaulding: ''Well, what do you say, girls? Are we all going to get married?'' - Rittenhouse: ''All of us?'' - Spaulding: ''All of us!'' - Rittenhouse: ''Yes, but that''s bigamy!'' - Spaulding: ''Yes, and it''s big-of-me too. It''s big of all of us. Let''s be big for a change. I''m sick of these conventional marriages. One woman and one man was good enough for your grandmother, but who wants to marry your grandmother?''
Iram Katourian (Jack Lemmon) talking to his mistress Irene (Joanna Gleason) about his wife Millie (Talia Shire) in For Richer, For Poorer (1992): - Irene: ''Iram, do you really think that your money has anything to do with Millie''s sex drive?'' - Iram: ''Oh, absolutely. You''ve heard the phrase: power is an aphrodisiac? That applies to marriage especially. See, a poor man has tremendous power over his wife . She needs him. Without his support, her, the kids... she humps the hell out of him. The richer a man is the less his wife is depending upon him, the less power he has over her and the less sexy he becomes to her. It''s a law of nature.'' - Irene: ''Horniness equals dependence times poverty squared.''

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