Marriage Quotes

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

David Ben - Gurion

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Hoshang N. Akhta

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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

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

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

Kahlil Gibran

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

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

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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 means expectations and expectations mean conflict.

Paxton Blai

Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.

J. B. Priestley

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

Helen Rowland

The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

There are three rings in marriage. The engagement ring... The wedding ring... and the suffering.

Trevor Rook

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

Johann von Goethe

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

Vicki Baum

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

Joe Murray

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

The days just prior to marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book.

Wilson Mizne

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

Dr. Joyce Brothers

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

Robert Oxton Bolt

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

Jane Austen

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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

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

Richard Pryo

Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate.

Barnett Brickne

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Harlan Mille

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Doug Larson

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

There is no greater excitement than to support an intellectual wife and have her support you. Marriage is a partnership in which each inspires the other, and brings fruition to both of you.

Millicent Carey McIntosh

The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.

Oscar Wilde

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

Calvin Trillin

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

Pearl Buck