Marriage Quotes

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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: a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.

Beverly Nichols

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

Helen Rowland

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

Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them.

Ogden Nash

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

Calvin Trillin

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

Vicki Baum

The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open.

Groucho Marx

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

The only charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception necessary for both parties.

Oscar Wilde

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

God created sex. Priests created marriage.

Voltaire

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

Author Unknown

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

Kahlil Gibran

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)

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

John D. MacDonald

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

Dr. Joyce Brothers

Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.

Dr. Karl Bowman

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

Richard Pryo

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.

Doug Larson

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

Joe Murray

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

Accident counts for much in companionship, as in marriage.

Henry Adams

Marriage: a long conversation chequered by disputes.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Marriage love, honor, and negotiate.

Joe Moore

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.

Leo Tolstoy

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.

Robert Oxton Bolt

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

John Lyly

Marriage is the wastepaper basket of the emotions.

Leon Botstein

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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

Sir Harold George Nicolson

Politics doesn? t make strange bedfellows - - Marriage does.

Groucho Marx

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

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare, Sonnet cxvi