Marriage Quotes

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

For the first year of marriage I had basically a bad attitude. I tended to place my wife underneath a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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

Robert Oxton Bolt

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudne

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

Professor Irwin Corey

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

Marriage is a triumph of habit over hate.

Oscar Levant

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

George Bernard Shaw

Marriage is the wastepaper basket of the emotions.

Leon Botstein

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

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

Ambrose Bierce

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

George Eliot

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

Peter De Vries

Marriage: a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.

Beverly Nichols

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

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

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

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Harlan Mille

Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.

John D. MacDonald

Marriage always demands the finest arts of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Vicki Baum

It marriage happens as with cages the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to getting out.

D. A. Battista

God created sex. Priests created marriage.

Voltaire

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

B. A. Billingsly

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

Trevor Rook

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

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.

Leo Tolstoy

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

Sir Winston Churchill

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Hoshang N. Akhta

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill - Advised marriages than from virginity.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

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

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

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

Wilson Mizne

Marriage love, honor, and negotiate.

Joe Moore

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

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

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