Marriage Quotes

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

Kahlil Gibran

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

Vicki Baum

In marriage, being the right person is as important as finding the right person.

Wilbert Donald Gough

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

Professor Irwin Corey

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 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

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

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Marriage love, honor, and negotiate.

Joe Moore

God created sex. Priests created marriage.

Voltaire

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

Phyllis McGinley

Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage, and half - Shut afterwards.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Author Unknown

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

Helen Rowland

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

Andre Maurois

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

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

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

On marriage Look for a sweet person. Forget rich.

Estee Laude

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

Accident counts for much in companionship, as in marriage.

Henry Adams

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution.

Henry Louis Mencken

Remarriage is an excellent test of just how amicable your divorce was.

Margo Kaufman

Marriage is a triumph of habit over hate.

Oscar Levant

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Calvin Trillin

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

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

Rita Rudne

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

George Eliot

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

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

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

Richard Pryo

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

Robert Oxton Bolt

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

Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.

Dr. Karl Bowman

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