Marriage Quotes

Accident counts for much in companionship, as in marriage.
Henry Adams
The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill - Advised marriages than from virginity.
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Marriage is the golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.
Kahlil Gibran
Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed.
Amanda Cross
The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.
Oscar Wilde
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.
Robert Oxton Bolt
From the rubaiyat of omar khayyam (translation by edward fitzgerald) - you know, my friends, with what a brave carouse i...
More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.
Doug Larson
The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open.
Groucho Marx
Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.
J. B. Priestley
Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.
Sydney Harris
Marriage is like a cage one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution.
Henry Louis Mencken
The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Sir Harold George Nicolson
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
George Bernard Shaw
In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.
Rita Rudne
Marriage is not merely sharing the fettucini, but sharing the burden of finding the fettucini restaurant in the first place.
Calvin Trillin
Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.
Louis K. Anspache
A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.
Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant
The days just prior to marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book.
Wilson Mizne
Marriage is a bargain, and somebody has to get the worst of the bargain.
Helen Rowland
Marriage: a long conversation chequered by disputes.
Robert Louis Stevenson
I pay very little regard... to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
All marriages are mixed marriages.
Chantal Saperstein
Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.
Dr. Karl Bowman
Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others.
William Hazlitt
It is a lovely thing to have a husband and wife developing together and having the feeling of falling in love again. That is what marriage really means helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.
Paul Tournie
Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy.
Phyllis McGinley
Marriage is like a dollar bill. You cannot spend half of it when you tear it in two. The value of one half depends upon the other.
Joe Moore
When marrying, ask yourself this question Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age Everything else in marriage is transitory.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul - Mate is the one you are actually married to.
J. R. R. Tolkien, Letter to Michael Tolkien, March 1941
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.
Leo Tolstoy
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
Jane Austen
Marriage: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
Ambrose Bierce
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
Johann von Goethe
I believe in the institution of marriage and I intend to keep trying until I get it right.
Richard Pryo
That is what marriage really means helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.
Paul Tournie