Marriage Quotes

Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage, and half - Shut afterwards.
Benjamin Franklin
For the first year of marriage I had basically a bad attitude. I tended to place my wife underneath a pedestal.
Woody Allen
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
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
George Eliot
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
Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.
J. B. Priestley
Even holligans marry, though they know that marriage is but for a little while. It is alimony that is forever.
Quentin Crisp
William hazlitt - even in the common affairs of life, in love,...
Voltaire - god created sex. priests created marriage....
Being able to support oneself allows one to choose a marriage out of love and not just economic dependence. It also allows one to risk that marriage.
Gloria Steinem
It should be a very happy marriage - - - They are both so much in love with him.
Irene Thomas
Doug larson - more marriages might survive if the partners...
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
A good marriage winds up as a meeting of minds, which had better be pretty good to start with.
Author Unknown
Choose in marriage only a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man.
Joubert
Marriage is a bargain, and somebody has to get the worst of the bargain.
Helen Rowland
If you want to read about love and marriage, you have to buy two separate books.
Alan King
Marriage: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
Ambrose Bierce
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Voltaire
The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill - Advised marriages than from virginity.
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
Remarriage is an excellent test of just how amicable your divorce was.
Margo Kaufman
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
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
Johann von Goethe
There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.
David Ben - Gurion
Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.
John D. MacDonald
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
Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.
Dr. Karl Bowman