Marriage Quotes

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
In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.
Rita Rudne
Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.
John D. MacDonald
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
Kathleen Norris
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
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
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.
Leo Tolstoy
H. l. mencken - for it is mutual trust, even more than mutual...
Leon botstein - marriage is the wastepaper basket of the emotions....
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)
Marriage is not merely sharing the fettucini, but sharing the burden of finding the fettucini restaurant in the first place.
Calvin Trillin
Wilbert donald gough - in marriage, being the right person is as...
Accident counts for much in companionship, as in marriage.
Henry Adams
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
Mark Twain
Marriage is a triumph of habit over hate.
Oscar Levant
Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them.
Ogden Nash
A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.
Pearl Buck
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Voltaire
Marriage is the golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.
Kahlil Gibran
Even holligans marry, though they know that marriage is but for a little while. It is alimony that is forever.
Quentin Crisp
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
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate.
Barnett Brickne
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
Marriage: a long conversation chequered by disputes.
Robert Louis Stevenson
There are three rings in marriage. The engagement ring... The wedding ring... and the suffering.
Trevor Rook
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
Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.
Oscar Wilde, , in a letter to his friend, Frances Forbes - Robertson, who had invited him to her wedding in London, but Wilde wa