Marriage Quotes

In marriage, being the right person is as important as finding the right person.

Wilbert Donald Gough

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

Mark Twain

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

Kahlil Gibran

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

John Lyly

On marriage Look for a sweet person. Forget rich.

Estee Laude

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 the only adventure open to the cowardly.

Voltaire

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

Alan King

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

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

Peter De Vries

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.

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

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 like a cage one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.

Sir Harold George Nicolson

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.

Robert Oxton Bolt

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

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

It marriage happens as with cages the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to getting out.

D. A. Battista

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

Margo Kaufman

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.

Doug Larson

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

Woody Allen

The days just prior to marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book.

Wilson Mizne

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

Groucho Marx

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

Kathleen Norris

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

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

Quentin Crisp

God created sex. Priests created marriage.

Voltaire

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

Rita Rudne

Accident counts for much in companionship, as in marriage.

Henry Adams

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

Oscar Wilde

A good marriage winds up as a meeting of minds, which had better be pretty good to start with.

Author Unknown

Marriage is a triumph of habit over hate.

Oscar Levant

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

I believe in the institution of marriage and I intend to keep trying until I get it right.

Richard Pryo