Marriage Quotes

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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

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

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

Professor Irwin Corey

There are three rings involved with marriage. The engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering.

Woody Allen

Whoever said Marriage is a 5 - 5 proposition laid the foundation for more divorce fees than any other short sentence in our language.

Austin Elliot

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)

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 is a bargain, and somebody has to get the worst of the bargain.

Helen Rowland

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

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

John Lyly

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

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

Marriage means expectations and expectations mean conflict.

Paxton Blai

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

Jane Austen

Marriage: a long conversation chequered by disputes.

Robert Louis Stevenson

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Peter De Vries

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

John D. MacDonald

Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy.

Phyllis McGinley

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

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 a triumph of habit over hate.

Oscar Levant

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

Johann von Goethe

I believe in the institution of marriage and I intend to keep trying until I get it right.

Richard Pryo

Marriage is the golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.

Kahlil Gibran

The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.

Sir Harold George Nicolson

Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate.

Barnett Brickne

A good marriage winds up as a meeting of minds, which had better be pretty good to start with.

Author Unknown

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

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

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

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

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