Marriage Quotes

It should be a very happy marriage - - - They are both so much in love with him.

Irene Thomas

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

D. A. Battista

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

Andre Maurois

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

Ambrose Bierce

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

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

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

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

The days just prior to marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book.

Wilson Mizne

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

Harlan Mille

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

Marriage means expectations and expectations mean conflict.

Paxton Blai

People are always asking couples whose marriage has endured at least a quarter of a century for their secret for success. Actually, it is no secret at all. I am a forgiving woman. Long ago, I forgave my husband for not being Paul Newman.

Erma Bombeck

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

Joubert

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

George Eliot

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

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

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

Johann von Goethe

On marriage Look for a sweet person. Forget rich.

Estee Laude

The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.

Oscar Wilde

Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.

Alphonse Ka

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Hoshang N. Akhta

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

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

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

Benjamin Franklin

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.

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

Wilbert Donald Gough

I know some good marriages - - Marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other.

Erica Jong

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

J. B. Priestley

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Quentin Crisp

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

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

Woody Allen

Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate.

Barnett Brickne

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