Marriage Quotes

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 always demands the finest arts of insincerity possible between two human beings.
Vicki Baum
Kathleen norris - intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a...
Marriage means expectations and expectations mean conflict.
Paxton Blai
Dr. joyce brothers - marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is...
Choose in marriage only a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man.
Joubert
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
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)
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
John Lyly
Estee laude - on marriage look for a sweet person. forget rich....
For the first year of marriage I had basically a bad attitude. I tended to place my wife underneath a pedestal.
Woody Allen
Marriage is the golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.
Kahlil Gibran
All marriages are mixed marriages.
Chantal Saperstein
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
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
There are three rings in marriage. The engagement ring... The wedding ring... and the suffering.
Trevor Rook
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.
Leo Tolstoy
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
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
George Bernard Shaw
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
A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.
Pearl Buck
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.
Robert Oxton Bolt
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
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
Marriage is the wastepaper basket of the emotions.
Leon Botstein
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: a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.
Beverly Nichols
Politics doesn? t make strange bedfellows - - Marriage does.
Groucho Marx
God created sex. Priests created marriage.
Voltaire
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
Remarriage is an excellent test of just how amicable your divorce was.
Margo Kaufman
Accident counts for much in companionship, as in marriage.
Henry Adams
It marriage happens as with cages the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to getting out.
D. A. Battista
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
Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.
B. A. Billingsly
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
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
Johann von Goethe
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