Marriage Quotes
It should be a very happy marriage - - - They are both so much in love with him.Irene Thomas
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.Mignon McLaughlin
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
Remarriage is an excellent test of just how amicable your divorce was.Margo Kaufman
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.Leo Tolstoy
Marriage: a long conversation chequered by disputes.Robert Louis Stevenson
Marriage is not merely sharing the fettucini, but sharing the burden of finding the fettucini restaurant in the first place.Calvin Trillin
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
The days just prior to marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book.Wilson Mizne
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
The only charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception necessary for both parties.Oscar Wilde
Even holligans marry, though they know that marriage is but for a little while. It is alimony that is forever.Quentin Crisp
On marriage Look for a sweet person. Forget rich.Estee Laude
The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.Oscar Wilde
God created sex. Priests created marriage.Voltaire
It marriage happens as with cages the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to getting out.D. A. Battista
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
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
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
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
Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others.William Hazlitt
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 that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.Louis K. Anspache
Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy.Phyllis McGinley
A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.Pearl Buck
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.Jane Austen
There are three rings in marriage. The engagement ring... The wedding ring... and the suffering.Trevor Rook
Marriage is the wastepaper basket of the emotions.Leon Botstein
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)
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
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 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
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.Kathleen Norris
Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.Dr. Karl Bowman
Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.Dr. Joyce Brothers
