Marriage Quotes

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

Voltaire

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

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

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

A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.

Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant

For the first year of marriage I had basically a bad attitude. I tended to place my wife underneath a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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

Marriage is a triumph of habit over hate.

Oscar Levant

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

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudne

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

David Ben - Gurion

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

Kathleen Norris

Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy.

Phyllis McGinley

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

Alan King

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

Trevor Rook

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

Professor Irwin Corey

When marrying, ask yourself this question Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age Everything else in marriage is transitory.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

B. A. Billingsly

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

Marriage is like a dollar bill. You cannot spend half of it when you tear it in two. The value of one half depends upon the other.

Joe Moore

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

Mark Twain

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

Henry Louis Mencken

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

Peter De Vries