Marriage Quotes
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
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
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
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
Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage, and half - Shut afterwards.Benjamin Franklin
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.George Eliot
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
Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.Dr. Joyce Brothers
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
Remarriage is an excellent test of just how amicable your divorce was.Margo Kaufman
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
God created sex. Priests created marriage.Voltaire
In marriage, being the right person is as important as finding the right person.Wilbert Donald Gough
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.George Bernard Shaw
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
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
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
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
Marriage is a bargain, and somebody has to get the worst of the bargain.Helen Rowland
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
Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.Alphonse Ka
A good marriage winds up as a meeting of minds, which had better be pretty good to start with.Author Unknown
I believe in the institution of marriage and I intend to keep trying until I get it right.Richard Pryo
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
More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.Doug Larson
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
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.Johann 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
Marriage should be a duet - - when one sings, the other claps.Joe Murray
Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.J. B. Priestley
Politics doesn? t make strange bedfellows - - Marriage does.Groucho Marx
The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.Oscar Wilde
All marriages are mixed marriages.Chantal Saperstein
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.Mignon McLaughlin
Marriage is based on the theory that when man discovers a brand of beer exactly to his taste he should at once throw up his job and go work in the brewery.George Jean Nathan
Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.Harlan Mille
