Marriage Quotes

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

God created sex. Priests created marriage.

Voltaire

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

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

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Calvin Trillin

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

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

Mark Twain

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

Sir Winston Churchill

For the first year of marriage I had basically a bad attitude. I tended to place my wife underneath a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage, and half - Shut afterwards.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Remarriage is an excellent test of just how amicable your divorce was.

Margo Kaufman

If you want to read about love and marriage, you have to buy two separate books.

Alan King

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

You know, my Friends, with what a brave Carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; Divorced old barren Reason from my Bed, And took the Daughter of the Vine to Spouse. For Is and Is - Not though with Rule and Line And Up - And - Down by Logic I define, Of all that one should care to fathom, I Was never deep in anything but - Wine.

From the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Translation by Edward Fitzgerald)

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

John Lyly

It marriage happens as with cages the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to getting out.

D. A. Battista

Marriage means expectations and expectations mean conflict.

Paxton Blai

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

J. B. Priestley

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

Jane Austen

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

Joe Murray

Choose in marriage only a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man.

Joubert

Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others.

William Hazlitt

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

Trevor Rook

Marriage: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.

Ambrose Bierce

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

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

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.

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

In marriage, being the right person is as important as finding the right person.

Wilbert Donald Gough