Marriage Quotes
Accident counts for much in companionship, as in marriage.Henry Adams
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 means expectations and expectations mean conflict.Paxton Blai
Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.B. A. Billingsly
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
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 resembles a pair of shears, so jointed that they cannot be separated often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.Logan Pearsall Smith
Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.Harlan Mille
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It is a sad fact that 50 percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. But hey, the other half end in death. You could be one of the lucky ones!Richard Jeni
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 marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant
Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them.Ogden Nash
Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage, and half - Shut afterwards.Benjamin Franklin
Politics doesn? t make strange bedfellows - - Marriage does.Groucho Marx
All marriages are mixed marriages.Chantal Saperstein
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
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
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
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate.Barnett Brickne
The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.Oscar Wilde
Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.Alphonse Ka
Even holligans marry, though they know that marriage is but for a little while. It is alimony that is forever.Quentin Crisp
More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.Doug Larson
There are three rings involved with marriage. The engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering.Woody Allen
Marriage is the wastepaper basket of the emotions.Leon Botstein
Remarriage is an excellent test of just how amicable your divorce was.Margo Kaufman
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 an adventure, like going to war.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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
There are three rings in marriage. The engagement ring... The wedding ring... and the suffering.Trevor Rook
The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open.Groucho Marx
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
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.Johann von Goethe
The days just prior to marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book.Wilson Mizne
Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.J. B. Priestley
