Marriage Quotes
Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.B. A. Billingsly
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
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
A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.Pearl Buck
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.Peter De Vries
Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them.Ogden Nash
God created sex. Priests created marriage.Voltaire
Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.Dr. Karl Bowman
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 used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.Candice Bergen
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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 should be a very happy marriage - - - They are both so much in love with him.Irene Thomas
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
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
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
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
Marriage means expectations and expectations mean conflict.Paxton Blai
I believe in the institution of marriage and I intend to keep trying until I get it right.Richard Pryo
Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.Dr. Joyce Brothers
Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy.Phyllis McGinley
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
Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.Harlan Mille
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
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
In marriage, being the right person is as important as finding the right person.Wilbert Donald Gough
Marriage should be a duet - - when one sings, the other claps.Joe Murray
Marriage is the wastepaper basket of the emotions.Leon Botstein
Marriage is not merely sharing the fettucini, but sharing the burden of finding the fettucini restaurant in the first place.Calvin Trillin
In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.Rita Rudne
Marriage is a triumph of habit over hate.Oscar Levant
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)
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
Marriage love, honor, and negotiate.Joe Moore
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
The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill - Advised marriages than from virginity.Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.Hoshang N. Akhta
