Marriage Quotes

Marriage always demands the finest arts of insincerity possible between two human beings.
Vicki Baum
In marriage, being the right person is as important as finding the right person.
Wilbert Donald Gough
William shakespeare, sonnet cxvi - let me not to the marriage of true minds admit...
Politics doesn? t make strange bedfellows - - Marriage does.
Groucho Marx
Johann von goethe - love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing a...
More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.
Doug Larson
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
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
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
Paul tournie - it is a lovely thing to have a husband and wife...
Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.
B. A. Billingsly
I believe in the institution of marriage and I intend to keep trying until I get it right.
Richard Pryo
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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
Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
Hoshang N. Akhta
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
There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.
David Ben - Gurion
The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open.
Groucho Marx
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
John Lyly
All marriages are mixed marriages.
Chantal Saperstein
Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.
Alphonse Ka
Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.
Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution.
Henry Louis Mencken
Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them.
Ogden Nash
Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage, and half - Shut afterwards.
Benjamin Franklin
Marriage is the golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.
Kahlil Gibran
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
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
Marriage means expectations and expectations mean conflict.
Paxton Blai
A good marriage winds up as a meeting of minds, which had better be pretty good to start with.
Author Unknown
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
Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.
Harlan Mille
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
The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill - Advised marriages than from virginity.
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
If you want to read about love and marriage, you have to buy two separate books.
Alan King
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
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
Andre Maurois
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
George Eliot
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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