Marriage Quotes

Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy.

Phyllis McGinley

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution.

Henry Louis Mencken

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

George Bernard Shaw

It should be a very happy marriage - - - They are both so much in love with him.

Irene Thomas

A good marriage winds up as a meeting of minds, which had better be pretty good to start with.

Author Unknown

Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.

Dr. Joyce Brothers

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

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

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

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

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

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

D. A. Battista

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

Joe Murray

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

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

I believe in the institution of marriage and I intend to keep trying until I get it right.

Richard Pryo

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

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

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

Woody Allen

Marriage always demands the finest arts of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Vicki Baum

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 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

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Louis K. Anspache