Marriage Quotes

If you want to read about love and marriage, you have to buy two separate books.

Alan King

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.

Leo Tolstoy

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

Marriage: a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.

Beverly Nichols

The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open.

Groucho Marx

Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate.

Barnett Brickne

Remarriage is an excellent test of just how amicable your divorce was.

Margo Kaufman

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

Choose in marriage only a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man.

Joubert

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Harlan Mille

The only charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception necessary for both parties.

Oscar Wilde

Marriage: a long conversation chequered by disputes.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

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

Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.

John D. MacDonald

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)

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

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

Politics doesn? t make strange bedfellows - - Marriage does.

Groucho Marx

Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them.

Ogden Nash

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

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Hoshang N. Akhta

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