Marriage Quotes
The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.Oscar Wilde
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.John Lyly
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
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.George Bernard Shaw
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
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 is a bargain, and somebody has to get the worst of the bargain.Helen Rowland
My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked.Sir Winston Churchill
A good marriage winds up as a meeting of minds, which had better be pretty good to start with.Author Unknown
Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.Louis K. Anspache
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
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 great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.Sir Harold George Nicolson
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
Politics doesn? t make strange bedfellows - - Marriage does.Groucho Marx
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
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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
The only charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception necessary for both parties.Oscar Wilde
On marriage Look for a sweet person. Forget rich.Estee Laude
Choose in marriage only a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man.Joubert
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate.Barnett Brickne
More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.Doug Larson
Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.
Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.J. B. Priestley
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.John D. MacDonald
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
Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage, and half - Shut afterwards.Benjamin Franklin
The days just prior to marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book.Wilson Mizne
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.Mignon McLaughlin
Marriage: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.Ambrose Bierce
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.Mark Twain
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.Johann von Goethe
One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of love with him, or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you maybe fall in love again.Judith Viorst
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
