Marriage Quotes

Remarriage is an excellent test of just how amicable your divorce was.
Margo Kaufman
The ritual of marriage is not simply a social event; it is a crossing of threads in the fabric of fate. Many strands bring the couple and their families together and spin their lives into a fabric that is woven on their children.
Portuguese - Jewish Wedding Ceremony
If you want to read about love and marriage, you have to buy two separate books.
Alan King
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
From the rubaiyat of omar khayyam (translation by edward fitzgerald) - you know, my friends, with what a brave carouse i...
William shakespeare, sonnet cxvi - let me not to the marriage of true minds admit...
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
Professor irwin corey - marriage is like a bank account. you put it in,...
More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.
Doug Larson
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
Peter De Vries
My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked.
Sir Winston Churchill
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
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
Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such who are in the institution wish to get out and such as are out wish to get in.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
Andre Maurois
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
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
The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.
Oscar Wilde
On marriage Look for a sweet person. Forget rich.
Estee Laude
Marriage love, honor, and negotiate.
Joe Moore
Marriage is a triumph of habit over hate.
Oscar Levant
Marriage means expectations and expectations mean conflict.
Paxton Blai
Choose in marriage only a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man.
Joubert
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
Marriage: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
Ambrose Bierce
Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.
Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.
Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them.
Ogden Nash
Marriage is like a dollar bill. You cannot spend half of it when you tear it in two. The value of one half depends upon the other.
Joe Moore
In marriage, being the right person is as important as finding the right person.
Wilbert Donald Gough
Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.
B. A. Billingsly
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Accident counts for much in companionship, as in marriage.
Henry Adams
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
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
Kathleen Norris
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
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
Jane Austen
Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.
Alphonse Ka
God created sex. Priests created marriage.
Voltaire
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Voltaire
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
George Eliot