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

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

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