Marriage Quotes

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

Margo Kaufman

There are three rings involved with marriage. The engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering.

Woody Allen

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

David Ben - Gurion

Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.

Professor Irwin Corey

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

Whoever said Marriage is a 5 - 5 proposition laid the foundation for more divorce fees than any other short sentence in our language.

Austin Elliot

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes in the sense that almost certainly in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul - Mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution.

Henry Louis Mencken

Marriage: a long conversation chequered by disputes.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Leo Tolstoy

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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

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

Marriage is the golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.

Kahlil Gibran

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

Groucho Marx

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

Beverly Nichols

Marriage always demands the finest arts of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Vicki Baum

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

George Eliot

There are three rings in marriage. The engagement ring... The wedding ring... and the suffering.

Trevor Rook

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

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Even holligans marry, though they know that marriage is but for a little while. It is alimony that is forever.

Quentin Crisp

Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.

Alphonse Ka