Marriage Quotes

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
George Bernard Shaw
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Hoshang n. akhta - marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed....
The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill - Advised marriages than from virginity.
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
J. b. priestley - marriage is like paying an endless visit in your...
It should be a very happy marriage - - - They are both so much in love with him.
Irene Thomas
Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.
Sydney Harris
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
The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Sir Harold George Nicolson
Jane austen - it is always incomprehensible to a man that a...
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Voltaire
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate.
Barnett Brickne
In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.
Rita Rudne
All marriages are mixed marriages.
Chantal Saperstein
You know, my Friends, with what a brave Carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; Divorced old barren Reason from my Bed, And took the Daughter of the Vine to Spouse. For Is and Is - Not though with Rule and Line And Up - And - Down by Logic I define, Of all that one should care to fathom, I Was never deep in anything but - Wine.
From the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Translation by Edward Fitzgerald)
Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.
Alphonse Ka
There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.
David Ben - Gurion
Marriage should be a duet - - when one sings, the other claps.
Joe Murray
Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage, and half - Shut afterwards.
Benjamin Franklin
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
There are three rings in marriage. The engagement ring... The wedding ring... and the suffering.
Trevor Rook
Marriage is the wastepaper basket of the emotions.
Leon Botstein
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
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
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
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
Even holligans marry, though they know that marriage is but for a little while. It is alimony that is forever.
Quentin Crisp
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.
Robert Oxton Bolt
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.
Leo Tolstoy
Politics doesn? t make strange bedfellows - - Marriage does.
Groucho Marx
Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.
Louis K. Anspache
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
John Lyly
If you want to read about love and marriage, you have to buy two separate books.
Alan King
All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - Never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.
Ann Landers
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
Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed.
Amanda Cross
Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy.
Phyllis McGinley
I know some good marriages - - Marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other.
Erica Jong
Marriage: a long conversation chequered by disputes.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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, Letter to Michael Tolkien, March 1941