Marriage Quotes

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Hoshang N. Akhta

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

Peter De Vries

It should be a very happy marriage - - - They are both so much in love with him.

Irene Thomas

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

Joe Murray

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Louis K. Anspache

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

Johann von Goethe

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

B. A. Billingsly

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

Doug Larson

For the first year of marriage I had basically a bad attitude. I tended to place my wife underneath a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

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: a long conversation chequered by disputes.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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)

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

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

Mignon McLaughlin

Marriage is a triumph of habit over hate.

Oscar Levant

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Politics doesn? t make strange bedfellows - - Marriage does.

Groucho Marx

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

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

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

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

John Lyly

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare, Sonnet cxvi

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

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

There are three rings involved with marriage. The engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering.

Woody Allen

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

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.

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

Margo Kaufman

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

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

Marriage: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.

Ambrose Bierce

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

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.

Robert Oxton Bolt

Marriage is a bargain, and somebody has to get the worst of the bargain.

Helen Rowland

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

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