Marriage Quotes
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
Politics doesn? t make strange bedfellows - - Marriage does.Groucho Marx
The only charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception necessary for both parties.Oscar Wilde
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
Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.Hoshang N. Akhta
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so jointed that they cannot be separated often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.Logan Pearsall Smith
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.Leo Tolstoy
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
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.Mark Twain
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
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
Marriage: a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.Beverly Nichols
Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.Dr. Karl Bowman
Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.J. B. Priestley
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Marriage: a long conversation chequered by disputes.Robert Louis Stevenson
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Even holligans marry, though they know that marriage is but for a little while. It is alimony that is forever.Quentin Crisp
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.John Lyly
Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.John D. MacDonald
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
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
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 an adventure, like going to war.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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
The days just prior to marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book.Wilson Mizne
Marriage is a bargain, and somebody has to get the worst of the bargain.Helen Rowland
There are three rings involved with marriage. The engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering.Woody Allen
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
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.Robert Oxton Bolt
There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.David Ben - Gurion
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
Marriage is the wastepaper basket of the emotions.Leon Botstein
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 ideal thing, marriage a real thing a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.Johann von Goethe
Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage, and half - Shut afterwards.Benjamin Franklin
