Marriage Quotes

Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage, and half - Shut afterwards.
Benjamin Franklin
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
All marriages are mixed marriages.
Chantal Saperstein
It marriage happens as with cages the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to getting out.
D. A. Battista
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
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution.
Henry Louis Mencken
God created sex. Priests created marriage.
Voltaire
Terry pratchett, the fifth elephant - a marriage is always made up of two people who...
John lyly - marriages are made in heaven and consummated on...
Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.
John D. MacDonald
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so jointed that they cannot be separated often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.
Logan Pearsall Smith
Judith viorst - one advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is...
Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.
Dr. Karl Bowman
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
Johann von Goethe
Marriage love, honor, and negotiate.
Joe Moore
Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.
Harlan Mille
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
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
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
Kathleen Norris
Marriage is the wastepaper basket of the emotions.
Leon Botstein
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.
Rita Rudne
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)
The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.
Oscar Wilde
The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Sir Harold George Nicolson
All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - Never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.
Ann Landers
Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such who are in the institution wish to get out and such as are out wish to get in.
Ralph Waldo Emerson