Marriage Quotes

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
The ritual of marriage is not simply a social event; it is a crossing of threads in the fabric of fate. Many strands bring the couple and their families together and spin their lives into a fabric that is woven on their children.
Portuguese - Jewish Wedding Ceremony
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
It should be a very happy marriage - - - They are both so much in love with him.
Irene Thomas
Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.
Dr. Karl Bowman
There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.
David Ben - Gurion
Even holligans marry, though they know that marriage is but for a little while. It is alimony that is forever.
Quentin Crisp
Henry adams - accident counts for much in companionship, as in...
Ambrose gwinett bierce - the world has suffered more from the ravages of...
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 the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Voltaire
Paul tournie - it is a lovely thing to have a husband and wife...
Choose in marriage only a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man.
Joubert
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 is a triumph of habit over hate.
Oscar Levant
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate.
Barnett Brickne
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
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
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
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.
Robert Oxton Bolt
Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.
Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.
There are three rings involved with marriage. The engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering.
Woody Allen
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
Jane Austen
In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.
Rita Rudne
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
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.
Leo Tolstoy
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