Marriage Quotes

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

Pearl Buck

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

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

Mark Twain

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

Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.

John D. MacDonald

Marriage love, honor, and negotiate.

Joe Moore

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

John Lyly

My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked.

Sir Winston Churchill

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

Jane Austen

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

Johann von Goethe

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

D. A. Battista

Marriage is a triumph of habit over hate.

Oscar Levant

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

Leo Tolstoy

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

George Bernard Shaw

Accident counts for much in companionship, as in marriage.

Henry Adams

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Hoshang N. Akhta

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

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

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Harlan Mille

Marriage: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.

Ambrose Bierce

Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.

Dr. Karl Bowman

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them.

Ogden Nash

Politics doesn? t make strange bedfellows - - Marriage does.

Groucho Marx

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Louis K. Anspache

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

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

There are three rings involved with marriage. The engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering.

Woody Allen

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

Wilbert Donald Gough

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

Richard Pryo

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 great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.

Sir Harold George Nicolson

Even holligans marry, though they know that marriage is but for a little while. It is alimony that is forever.

Quentin Crisp

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

J. B. Priestley

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

The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge