Marriage Quotes
More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.Doug Larson
The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open.Groucho Marx
A good marriage winds up as a meeting of minds, which had better be pretty good to start with.Author Unknown
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 marriage happens as with cages the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to getting out.D. A. Battista
Politics doesn? t make strange bedfellows - - Marriage does.Groucho Marx
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate.Barnett Brickne
Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy.Phyllis McGinley
People are always asking couples whose marriage has endured at least a quarter of a century for their secret for success. Actually, it is no secret at all. I am a forgiving woman. Long ago, I forgave my husband for not being Paul Newman.Erma Bombeck
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.George Eliot
Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.B. A. Billingsly
Marriage is the wastepaper basket of the emotions.Leon Botstein
Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.Dr. Joyce Brothers
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
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.Andre Maurois
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
Marriage always demands the finest arts of insincerity possible between two human beings.Vicki Baum
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
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
Marriage: a long conversation chequered by disputes.Robert Louis Stevenson
In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.Rita Rudne
The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill - Advised marriages than from virginity.Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.Dr. Karl Bowman
There are three rings involved with marriage. The engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering.Woody Allen
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
In marriage, being the right person is as important as finding the right person.Wilbert Donald Gough
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.Voltaire
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.George Bernard Shaw
Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.Louis K. Anspache
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.Peter De Vries
Remarriage is an excellent test of just how amicable your divorce was.Margo Kaufman
Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.Hoshang N. Akhta
The days just prior to marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book.Wilson Mizne
Marriage is a bargain, and somebody has to get the worst of the bargain.Helen Rowland
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
Marriage should be a duet - - when one sings, the other claps.Joe Murray
