Marriage Quotes

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
John Lyly
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
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
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
Kathleen Norris
The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open.
Groucho Marx
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
Hoshang n. akhta - marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed....
Ralph waldo emerson - is not marriage an open question, when it is...
Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.
Alphonse Ka
Marriage: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
Ambrose Bierce
David ben - gurion - there is no more lovely, friendly, and charming...
My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked.
Sir Winston Churchill
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
Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.
J. B. Priestley
Marriage should be a duet - - when one sings, the other claps.
Joe Murray
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Voltaire
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
Mark Twain
For the first year of marriage I had basically a bad attitude. I tended to place my wife underneath a pedestal.
Woody Allen
The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Sir Harold George Nicolson
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
Peter De Vries
There are three rings in marriage. The engagement ring... The wedding ring... and the suffering.
Trevor Rook
Politics doesn? t make strange bedfellows - - Marriage does.
Groucho Marx
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)
It marriage happens as with cages the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to getting out.
D. A. Battista
Marriage: a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.
Beverly Nichols
Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.
Louis K. Anspache