Marriage Quotes
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
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.Mignon McLaughlin
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
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
Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.Professor Irwin Corey
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
Marriage love, honor, and negotiate.Joe Moore
Marriage: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.Ambrose Bierce
Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.Harlan Mille
Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.Dr. Karl Bowman
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
It should be a very happy marriage - - - They are both so much in love with him.Irene Thomas
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is.George Santayana
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
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
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 a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution.Henry Louis Mencken
If you want to read about love and marriage, you have to buy two separate books.Alan King
My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked.Sir Winston Churchill
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
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
A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.Pearl Buck
The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill - Advised marriages than from virginity.Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
Marriage is a bargain, and somebody has to get the worst of the bargain.Helen Rowland
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
The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.Oscar Wilde
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 our last, best chance to grow up.B. A. Billingsly
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
A good marriage winds up as a meeting of minds, which had better be pretty good to start with.Author Unknown
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.Doug Larson
Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.Alphonse Ka
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
For the first year of marriage I had basically a bad attitude. I tended to place my wife underneath a pedestal.Woody Allen
Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.Louis K. Anspache
