Marriage Quotes

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

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

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

Marriage is a triumph of habit over hate.

Oscar Levant

Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.

Dr. Joyce Brothers

Marriage should be a duet - - when one sings, the other claps.

Joe Murray

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

Andre Maurois

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

Pearl Buck

Marriage: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.

Ambrose Bierce

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

There are three rings in marriage. The engagement ring... The wedding ring... and the suffering.

Trevor Rook

Marriage means expectations and expectations mean conflict.

Paxton Blai

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

It marriage happens as with cages the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to getting out.

D. A. Battista

God created sex. Priests created marriage.

Voltaire

My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Helen Rowland

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudne

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

Mark Twain

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

George Bernard Shaw

Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.

Alphonse Ka

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

Johann von Goethe

Even holligans marry, though they know that marriage is but for a little while. It is alimony that is forever.

Quentin Crisp

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

Marriage always demands the finest arts of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Vicki Baum

The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.

Oscar Wilde

It should be a very happy marriage - - - They are both so much in love with him.

Irene Thomas

Marriage is the wastepaper basket of the emotions.

Leon Botstein

Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.

J. B. Priestley

Marriage is not merely sharing the fettucini, but sharing the burden of finding the fettucini restaurant in the first place.

Calvin Trillin

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

For the first year of marriage I had basically a bad attitude. I tended to place my wife underneath a pedestal.

Woody Allen

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

David Ben - Gurion

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe... Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

H. L. Mencken

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

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

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