Marriage Quotes
It marriage happens as with cages the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to getting out.D. A. Battista
Politics doesn? t make strange bedfellows - - Marriage does.Groucho Marx
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
The days just prior to marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book.Wilson Mizne
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
Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.Harlan Mille
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
Marriage is a bargain, and somebody has to get the worst of the bargain.Helen Rowland
A good marriage winds up as a meeting of minds, which had better be pretty good to start with.Author Unknown
A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.Pearl Buck
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
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
On marriage Look for a sweet person. Forget rich.Estee Laude
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
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
Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.Dr. Karl Bowman
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
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
There are three rings involved with marriage. The engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering.Woody Allen
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
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
Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.John D. MacDonald
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.Mark Twain
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.Leo Tolstoy
Marriage love, honor, and negotiate.Joe Moore
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.Oscar Wilde
Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.Louis K. Anspache
The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open.Groucho Marx
Marriage is not merely sharing the fettucini, but sharing the burden of finding the fettucini restaurant in the first place.Calvin Trillin
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.Johann von Goethe
There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.David Ben - Gurion
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
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
All marriages are mixed marriages.Chantal Saperstein
Marriage: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.Ambrose Bierce
