Marriage Quotes

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
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution.
Henry Louis Mencken
Wilson mizne - the days just prior to marriage are like a snappy...
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
Euripides, alcestis, 438 b. c. - never say that marriage has more of joy than pain....
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
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
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
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Joe murray - marriage should be a duet - - when one sings, the...
It should be a very happy marriage - - - They are both so much in love with him.
Irene Thomas
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
Politics doesn? t make strange bedfellows - - Marriage does.
Groucho Marx
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
Andre Maurois
Marriage is based on the theory that when man discovers a brand of beer exactly to his taste he should at once throw up his job and go work in the brewery.
George Jean Nathan
God created sex. Priests created marriage.
Voltaire
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
Marriage is a triumph of habit over hate.
Oscar Levant
Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage, and half - Shut afterwards.
Benjamin Franklin
Remarriage is an excellent test of just how amicable your divorce was.
Margo Kaufman
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
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
Marriage means expectations and expectations mean conflict.
Paxton Blai
Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy.
Phyllis McGinley
Marriage is the golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.
Kahlil Gibran
Marriage is the wastepaper basket of the emotions.
Leon Botstein
Even holligans marry, though they know that marriage is but for a little while. It is alimony that is forever.
Quentin Crisp
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
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
There are three rings in marriage. The engagement ring... The wedding ring... and the suffering.
Trevor Rook
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
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.
Robert Oxton Bolt
Accident counts for much in companionship, as in marriage.
Henry Adams
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
John Lyly
In marriage, being the right person is as important as finding the right person.
Wilbert Donald Gough
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Mignon McLaughlin
Marriage is like a cage one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Marriage love, honor, and negotiate.
Joe Moore
In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.
Rita Rudne
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