| Andre Maurois |  A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
Andre Maurois |
| Andre Maurois | A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
Andre Maurois |
| Andre Maurois | A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
Andre Maurois |
| Andrea Dworkin | Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.
Andrea Dworkin |
| Andrew Sullivan | My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started.
Andrew Sullivan |
| Angela Carter | What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many?
Angela Carter |
| angels | I, who have read your so sweet letter to poor Lucy of your marriage and your trust, not know you! Oh, Madam Mina, good women tell all their lives, and by day and by hour and by minute, such things that angels can read. |
| Anita Ekberg | The most important thing for a good marriage is to learn how to argue peaceably.
Anita Ekberg |
| Ann Landers | All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.
Ann Landers |
| Ann Landers | Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.
Ann Landers |
| Anna Quindlen | The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female.
Anna Quindlen |
| Anne Heche | I believe I went through a divorce. My relationship with Ellen is no less significant as a marriage than my relationship to Coley.
Anne Heche |
| Anne Stevenson | I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy.
Anne Stevenson |
| Anne Tyler | The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest.
Anne Tyler |
| another | Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik 'divorces' another woman ahead of his planned marriage to Indian tennis star Sania Mirza. |
| Anthony Holden | I decided he'd changed so much that a whole new book was required and that book actually I can say so was the first to say that the marriage was in trouble and the Prince didn't like at all and my book was being serialized in the Sunday Times over five weeks.
Anthony Holden |
| Anthony Trollope | A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
Anthony Trollope |
| Anthony Weiner | Sooner or later they are going to live in a New York City where gay marriage is not only legal, but it's common and they don't even notice.
Anthony Weiner |
| anxious | Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that there should be a marriage between us. |
| Arlie Hochschild | Many women cut back what had to be done at home by redefining what the house, the marriage and, sometimes, what the child needs. One woman described a fairly common pattern: I do my half. I do half of his half, and the rest doesn't get done.
Arlie Hochschild |
