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

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

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