Marriage Quotes

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
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
Irene thomas - it should be a very happy marriage - - - they are...
Marriage: a long conversation chequered by disputes.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Sydney harris - almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that...
Marriage is a bargain, and somebody has to get the worst of the bargain.
Helen Rowland
Marriage means expectations and expectations mean conflict.
Paxton Blai
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
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
Kathleen Norris
Joe moore - marriage love, honor, and negotiate....
More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.
Doug Larson
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
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Mignon McLaughlin
All marriages are mixed marriages.
Chantal Saperstein
God created sex. Priests created marriage.
Voltaire
I believe in the institution of marriage and I intend to keep trying until I get it right.
Richard Pryo
Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
Hoshang N. Akhta
Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them.
Ogden Nash
My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked.
Sir Winston Churchill
Even holligans marry, though they know that marriage is but for a little while. It is alimony that is forever.
Quentin Crisp
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
Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.
John D. MacDonald
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 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
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
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)
Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.
Dr. Karl Bowman
Marriage should be a duet - - when one sings, the other claps.
Joe Murray
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
Remarriage is an excellent test of just how amicable your divorce was.
Margo Kaufman
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
The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill - Advised marriages than from virginity.
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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
Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.
B. A. Billingsly
Accident counts for much in companionship, as in marriage.
Henry Adams
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
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
Peter De Vries
Marriage: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
Ambrose Bierce
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
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