Marriage Quotes

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

Marriage: a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.

Beverly Nichols

Marriage is like a cage one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

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

Richard Pryo

Being able to support oneself allows one to choose a marriage out of love and not just economic dependence. It also allows one to risk that marriage.

Gloria Steinem

God created sex. Priests created marriage.

Voltaire

Marriage should be a duet - - when one sings, the other claps.

Joe Murray

Marriage is a triumph of habit over hate.

Oscar Levant

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

Voltaire

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Hoshang N. Akhta

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

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

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

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

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

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

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)

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution.

Henry Louis Mencken

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

David Ben - Gurion

The only charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception necessary for both parties.

Oscar Wilde

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.

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

If you want to read about love and marriage, you have to buy two separate books.

Alan King

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

George Bernard Shaw

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudne

Marriage is not merely sharing the fettucini, but sharing the burden of finding the fettucini restaurant in the first place.

Calvin Trillin

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

John Lyly

Marriage is the golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.

Kahlil Gibran

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

Joubert

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

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

Peter De Vries

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

Dr. Joyce Brothers

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill - Advised marriages than from virginity.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

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

Vicki Baum

My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked.

Sir Winston Churchill

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

Mark Twain