Coretta Scott King Quotes

Marriage is all right, but I think it's carrying love a little bit too far.

I work hard to let my wife know how much I love her. I try to do that every day.

My life as Mrs. Leo Durocher and baseball come first.

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

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.

I chose to be Mrs. Johnny Cash in my life. I decided I'd allow him to be Moses and I'd be Moses' brother Aaron, picking his arms up and padding along behind him.

Love and marriage are wonderful arenas in which to place a character. We are most likely to risk our morals and beliefs while in love. Betrayal gives tremendous insights into a character as well.

A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.

My wife is amazing. She had to know she was getting into a heap of trouble when we met.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

To be in a couple, do you have to put your single self on a shelf?

With the Union my best and dearest earthly hopes are entwined.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

My wife said to me: 'If you won the lottery, would you still love me?' I said: 'Of course I would. I'd miss you, but I'd still love you.'

Men don't deceive their wives unless they love them. When they love them most, they deceive them. It's a form of fidelity, their deceit.

Of course, I do have a slight advantage over the rest of you. It helps in a pinch to be able to remind your bride that you gave up a throne for her.

The bottom line is, you love your wife, you do your best with that.

If I ever loved a man better than I love my art, I should marry him and leave the stage. But I have never met such a man.

Well, marriage doesn't function in the way it used to in terms of deciding our fate, but it's in our heads, and it determines a lot of our actions. Like, right now, if you think about gay marriage - and they just started having the first gay marriages in New York - it shows what a potent idea marriage remains for people.

Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.

The most romantic thing a guy has ever done for me is starting a family. That's as romantic as it gets.

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day, but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.

I love marriage.

Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth.