Marriage Quotes

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

Marriage: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.

Ambrose Bierce

The days just prior to marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book.

Wilson Mizne

Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them.

Ogden Nash

Even holligans marry, though they know that marriage is but for a little while. It is alimony that is forever.

Quentin Crisp

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

A good marriage winds up as a meeting of minds, which had better be pretty good to start with.

Author Unknown

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

The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.

Oscar Wilde

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

Mark Twain

My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked.

Sir Winston Churchill

Politics doesn? t make strange bedfellows - - Marriage does.

Groucho Marx

There are three rings in marriage. The engagement ring... The wedding ring... and the suffering.

Trevor Rook

Marriage means expectations and expectations mean conflict.

Paxton Blai

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

John Lyly

Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy.

Phyllis McGinley

Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage, and half - Shut afterwards.

Benjamin Franklin

Marriage is a bargain, and somebody has to get the worst of the bargain.

Helen Rowland

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

Jane Austen

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

Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.

J. B. Priestley

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

Johann von Goethe

Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.

Pearl S. Buck