Marriage Quotes

Marriage is the golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.
Kahlil Gibran
Marriage always demands the finest arts of insincerity possible between two human beings.
Vicki Baum
In marriage, being the right person is as important as finding the right person.
Wilbert Donald Gough
Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
Professor Irwin Corey
J. r. r. tolkien, letter to michael tolkien, march 1941 - nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are...
Dr. joyce brothers - marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is...
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
Leon botstein - marriage is the wastepaper basket of the emotions....
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
Even holligans marry, though they know that marriage is but for a little while. It is alimony that is forever.
Quentin Crisp
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
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Marriage love, honor, and negotiate.
Joe Moore
God created sex. Priests created marriage.
Voltaire
Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy.
Phyllis McGinley
Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage, and half - Shut afterwards.
Benjamin Franklin
A good marriage winds up as a meeting of minds, which had better be pretty good to start with.
Author Unknown
Marriage is a bargain, and somebody has to get the worst of the bargain.
Helen Rowland
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
Andre Maurois
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
When marrying, ask yourself this question Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age Everything else in marriage is transitory.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - Never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.
Ann Landers
On marriage Look for a sweet person. Forget rich.
Estee Laude
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
Accident counts for much in companionship, as in marriage.
Henry Adams
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution.
Henry Louis Mencken
Remarriage is an excellent test of just how amicable your divorce was.
Margo Kaufman
Marriage is a triumph of habit over hate.
Oscar Levant
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Mignon McLaughlin
Marriage is not merely sharing the fettucini, but sharing the burden of finding the fettucini restaurant in the first place.
Calvin Trillin
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
In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.
Rita Rudne
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
George Eliot
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
It is a lovely thing to have a husband and wife developing together and having the feeling of falling in love again. 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
I believe in the institution of marriage and I intend to keep trying until I get it right.
Richard Pryo
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.
Robert Oxton Bolt
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
Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.
Dr. Karl Bowman
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