Marriage Quotes

Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.

Dr. Joyce Brothers

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 popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Groucho Marx

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

B. A. Billingsly

Marriage always demands the finest arts of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Vicki Baum

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

Wilbert Donald Gough

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

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

Richard Pryo

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

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

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

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

D. A. Battista

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

George Eliot

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

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

Doug Larson

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

Margo Kaufman

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

One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of love with him, or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you maybe fall in love again.

Judith Viorst

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Hoshang N. Akhta

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

Trevor Rook

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

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

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

Marriage love, honor, and negotiate.

Joe Moore

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

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

Choose in marriage only a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man.

Joubert

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

Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.

John D. MacDonald

Accident counts for much in companionship, as in marriage.

Henry Adams

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

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 like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.

J. B. Priestley

The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge