Marriage Quotes

Marriage: a long conversation chequered by disputes.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

Peter De Vries

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

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

J. B. Priestley

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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

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)

I pay very little regard... to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill - Advised marriages than from virginity.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

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

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

D. A. Battista

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

Richard Pryo

If you want to read about love and marriage, you have to buy two separate books.

Alan King

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

Pearl Buck

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

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

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

B. A. Billingsly

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

George Eliot

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

Author Unknown

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

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

Voltaire

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

Professor Irwin Corey

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

Vicki Baum

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

Doug Larson

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

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

Mark Twain

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

On marriage Look for a sweet person. Forget rich.

Estee Laude

Choose in marriage only a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man.

Joubert

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

Groucho Marx

Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.

Dr. Karl Bowman

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

Leo Tolstoy

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

David Ben - Gurion

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

Kathleen Norris

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

Woody Allen