Marriage Quotes

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

George Eliot

Marriage is based on the theory that when man discovers a brand of beer exactly to his taste he should at once throw up his job and go work in the brewery.

George Jean Nathan

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

Marriage: a long conversation chequered by disputes.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

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

D. A. Battista

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

Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.

Professor Irwin Corey

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

Author Unknown

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.

Robert Oxton Bolt

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

Phyllis McGinley

On marriage Look for a sweet person. Forget rich.

Estee Laude

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

Ambrose Bierce

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

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.

Leo Tolstoy

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

Jane Austen

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

Pearl Buck

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

Irene Thomas

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

Woody Allen

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

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