Marriage Quotes

You know, my Friends, with what a brave Carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; Divorced old barren Reason from my Bed, And took the Daughter of the Vine to Spouse. For Is and Is - Not though with Rule and Line And Up - And - Down by Logic I define, Of all that one should care to fathom, I Was never deep in anything but - Wine.
From the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Translation by Edward Fitzgerald)
In marriage, being the right person is as important as finding the right person.
Wilbert Donald Gough
Dr. karl bowman - love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by...
Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.
William Shakespeare, Sonnet cxvi
Kahlil gibran - marriage is the golden ring in a chain, whose...
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
The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open.
Groucho Marx
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Mignon McLaughlin
Amanda cross - odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact...
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Voltaire
For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe... Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
H. L. Mencken
One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of love with him, or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you maybe fall in love again.
Judith Viorst
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
George Bernard Shaw
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution.
Henry Louis Mencken
Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.
B. A. Billingsly
It should be a very happy marriage - - - They are both so much in love with him.
Irene Thomas
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is.
George Santayana
There is no greater excitement than to support an intellectual wife and have her support you. Marriage is a partnership in which each inspires the other, and brings fruition to both of you.
Millicent Carey McIntosh
Marriage is not merely sharing the fettucini, but sharing the burden of finding the fettucini restaurant in the first place.
Calvin Trillin
The only charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception necessary for both parties.
Oscar Wilde
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
Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.
Louis K. Anspache
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
Sir Thomas More
God created sex. Priests created marriage.
Voltaire
People are always asking couples whose marriage has endured at least a quarter of a century for their secret for success. Actually, it is no secret at all. I am a forgiving woman. Long ago, I forgave my husband for not being Paul Newman.
Erma Bombeck
Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
Professor Irwin Corey
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
Peter De Vries
If you want to read about love and marriage, you have to buy two separate books.
Alan King
Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.
Dr. Joyce Brothers
I know some good marriages - - Marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other.
Erica Jong
More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.
Doug Larson
A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.
Pearl Buck
It is a sad fact that 50 percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. But hey, the other half end in death. You could be one of the lucky ones!
Richard Jeni
The ritual of marriage is not simply a social event; it is a crossing of threads in the fabric of fate. Many strands bring the couple and their families together and spin their lives into a fabric that is woven on their children.
Portuguese - Jewish Wedding Ceremony
The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill - Advised marriages than from virginity.
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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
There are three rings involved with marriage. The engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering.
Woody Allen
In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.
Rita Rudne
Marriage is a triumph of habit over hate.
Oscar Levant