Marriage Quotes
All marriages are mixed marriages.Chantal Saperstein
Marriage love, honor, and negotiate.Joe Moore
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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
On marriage Look for a sweet person. Forget rich.Estee Laude
More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.Doug Larson
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so jointed that they cannot be separated often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.Logan Pearsall Smith
Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.Oscar Wilde, , in a letter to his friend, Frances Forbes - Robertson, who had invited him to her wedding in London, but Wilde wa
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
The days just prior to marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book.Wilson Mizne
In marriage, being the right person is as important as finding the right person.Wilbert Donald Gough
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
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.Robert Oxton Bolt
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
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
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
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is.George Santayana
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 involved with marriage. The engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering.Woody Allen
A good marriage winds up as a meeting of minds, which had better be pretty good to start with.Author Unknown
Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.
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
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
The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.Sir Harold George Nicolson
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
The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill - Advised marriages than from virginity.Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.Voltaire
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.Jane Austen
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution.Henry Louis Mencken
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 the golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.Kahlil Gibran
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
Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.Dr. Karl Bowman
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.John Lyly
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.Peter De Vries
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
Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy.Phyllis McGinley
