Marriage Quotes

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

On marriage Look for a sweet person. Forget rich.

Estee Laude

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Hoshang N. Akhta

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

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.

Alphonse Ka

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.

Robert Oxton Bolt

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

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

Marriage is the golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.

Kahlil Gibran

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.

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

Choose in marriage only a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man.

Joubert

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

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

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

Wilson Mizne

In marriage, being the right person is as important as finding the right person.

Wilbert Donald Gough

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

There are three rings involved with marriage. The engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering.

Woody Allen

I believe in the institution of marriage and I intend to keep trying until I get it right.

Richard Pryo

Being able to support oneself allows one to choose a marriage out of love and not just economic dependence. It also allows one to risk that marriage.

Gloria Steinem

Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.

Professor Irwin Corey

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

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

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

Ambrose Bierce

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

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

Marriage means expectations and expectations mean conflict.

Paxton Blai

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

Helen Rowland

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

Peter De Vries

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

If you want to read about love and marriage, you have to buy two separate books.

Alan King

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

The only charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception necessary for both parties.

Oscar Wilde

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