Marriage Quotes
God created sex. Priests created marriage.Voltaire
Marriage is not merely sharing the fettucini, but sharing the burden of finding the fettucini restaurant in the first place.Calvin Trillin
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
For the first year of marriage I had basically a bad attitude. I tended to place my wife underneath a pedestal.Woody Allen
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
Marriage means expectations and expectations mean conflict.Paxton Blai
A good marriage winds up as a meeting of minds, which had better be pretty good to start with.Author Unknown
Marriage is like a cage one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.Johann von Goethe
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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
Politics doesn? t make strange bedfellows - - Marriage does.Groucho Marx
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.Leo Tolstoy
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.Alphonse Ka
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate.Barnett Brickne
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: a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.Beverly Nichols
Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.Pearl S. Buck
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
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
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.John Lyly
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution.Henry Louis Mencken
The days just prior to marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book.Wilson Mizne
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
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
Marriage: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.Ambrose Bierce
Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them.Ogden Nash
If you want to read about love and marriage, you have to buy two separate books.Alan King
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
Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy.Phyllis McGinley
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.Kathleen Norris
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
Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage, and half - Shut afterwards.Benjamin Franklin
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
The only charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception necessary for both parties.Oscar Wilde
