Marriage Quotes

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 holligans marry, though they know that marriage is but for a little while. It is alimony that is forever.

Quentin Crisp

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

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

Joubert

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

Dr. Joyce Brothers

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

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

D. A. Battista

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.

Oscar Wilde

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

Vicki Baum

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

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

Margo Kaufman

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

Kathleen Norris

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

Louis K. Anspache

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

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

Oscar Wilde

Marriage is the wastepaper basket of the emotions.

Leon Botstein

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

Richard Pryo

Marriage is a triumph of habit over hate.

Oscar Levant

The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.

Sir Harold George Nicolson

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

Kahlil Gibran

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

Robert Oxton Bolt

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

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 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: a long conversation chequered by disputes.

Robert Louis Stevenson

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

Jane Austen

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.

Leo Tolstoy

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

Joe Murray

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

Voltaire

Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.

Professor Irwin Corey

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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

David Ben - Gurion

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

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

Henry Louis Mencken

Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy.

Phyllis McGinley