Marriage Quotes
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The truth is you can have a great marriage, but there are still no guarantees. (Quote by - Demi Moore)
The only way a woman can ever reform her husband is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life. (Quote by - Gloria Swanson)
If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry. (Quote by - Anton Chekov)
A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. (Quote by - Ruth Bell Graham)
The heart of marriage is memories. (Quote by - Bill Cosby)
We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years. (Quote by - Nick Faldo)
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. (Quote by - Isadora Duncan)
Think not because you are now wed That all your courtship's at an end. (Quote by - Antonio Hurtado de Mendoza)
Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid. (Quote by - Harlan Miller)
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults. (Quote by - Peter De Vries)
A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished. (Quote by - Zsa Zsa Gabor)
Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature. (Quote by - Aeschylus)
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success. (Quote by - Jim Backus)
When the one man loves the one woman and the one woman loves the one man, the very angels desert heaven and come and sit in that house and sing for joy. (Quote by - The Brahma Sutras)
I never knew what real happiness was until I got married. And by then it was too late. (Quote by - Max Kauffman)
Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him. (Quote by - H.L. Menckens)
Love, you know, seeks to make happy rather than to be happy. (Quote by - Ralph Connor)
Love doesn't make the world go round, Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. (Quote by - Franklin P. Jones)
Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three (Quote by - Washington Irving)
Love is a game that two can play and both win. (Quote by - Eva Gabor)
I came from a big family. As a matter of fact, I never got to sleep alone until I was married. (Quote by - Lewis Grizzard)
Marriage is an institution and that's where a couple finish up. (Quote by - Les Dawson)
Take care of him. And make him feel important. And if you can do that, you'll have a happy and wonderful marriage. Like two out of every ten couples. (Quote by - Neil Simon)
When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on. (Quote by - Henry Fielding)
Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder. (Quote by - Thornton Wilder)
In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar, a custom which is still continued. (Quote by - Helen Rowland)
Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there. (Quote by - Andrew Jackson)
Many marriages are simply working partnerships between businessmen and housekeepers. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)
Though marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves 'em still two fools. (Quote by - William Congreve)
If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a lot of overlapping. (Quote by - Mignon Mclaughlin)
Never strike your wife - even with a flower. (Quote by - Hindu Proverb)
He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of. (Quote by - Mae West)
I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night. (Quote by - Marie Corelli)
Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up (Quote by - Joseph Barth)
Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman. (Quote by - Joseph Joubert)
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. (Quote by - Rita Rudner)
If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books. (Quote by - Alan King)
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. (Quote by - Socrates)
Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one (Quote by - Joseph Campbell)
Alimony - The ransom that the happy pay to the devil. (Quote by - H.L. Mencken)
Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it. (Quote by - William Somerset Maugham)
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for granted relationship. (Quote by - Iris Murdoch)
A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married. (Quote by - H.L. Mencken)
That quiet mutual gaze of a trusting husband and wife is like the first moment of rest or refuge from a great weariness or a great danger. (Quote by - George Eliot)
A first-rate marriage is like a first-rate hotel: expensive, but worth it. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)
More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse. (Quote by - Doug Larson)
Alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse. (Quote by - Arthur Baer)
Love just doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made like bread, remade all the time, made new. (Quote by - Ursula Kroeber Le Guin)
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. (Quote by - Sacha Guitry)
People do not marry people, not real ones anyway; they marry what they think the person is; they marry illusions and images. The exciting adventure of marriage is finding out who the partner really is. (Quote by - James L. Framo)
I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage. (Quote by - Maria Callas)
For two people in a marriage to live together day after day is unquestionably the one miracle the Vatican has overlooked. (Quote by - Bill Cosby)
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. (Quote by - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)
Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they blossom when we love the ones we marry. (Quote by - Tom Mullen)
Never get married in the morning - you never know who you might meet that night. (Quote by - Paul Hornung)
A dog is much like a married man, obeying his master's voice for the sake of his master's touch. (Quote by - Robert Brault)
Wedlock is the deep, deep peace of the double bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise lounge. (Quote by - Mrs Patrick Campbell)
Bigamy is having one husband or wife too many. Monogamy is the same. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Love-matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar. (Quote by - Countess of Blessington)
Well-married, a man is winged: ill-matched, he is shackled. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty (Quote by - Helen Rowland)
The only cure for love is marriage. (Quote by - Irish Sayings)
Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel. (Quote by - Leonardo da Vinci)
Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. (Quote by - Stephen Leacock)
Marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust. (Quote by - Nanette Newman)
Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious. Both are disappointed. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Come live in my heart, and pay no rent. (Quote by - Samuel Lover)
If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee (Quote by - Anne Bradstreet)
However often marriage is dissolved, it remains indissoluble. Real divorce, the divorce of heart and nerve and fiber, does not exist, since there is no divorce from memory. (Quote by - Virgilia Peterson)
Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge. (Quote by - Bill Cosby)
Any woman who still thinks marriage is a fifty-fifty proposition is only proving that she doesn't understand either men or percentages (Quote by - Rose F. Kennedy)
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband. (Quote by - Euripides)
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand. (Quote by - Ella Wheeler Wilcox)
Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
In many instances, marriage vows would be more accurate if the phrase were changed to 'Until debt do us part'. (Quote by - Sam Ewing)
ity all newlyweds. She cooks something nice for him, and he brings her flowers, and they kiss and think: How easy marriage is. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. (Quote by - Lao Tzu)
Adultery is the application of democracy to love. (Quote by - Henry Louis Mencken)
To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up. (Quote by - Ogden Nash)
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. (Quote by - Katharine Houghton Hepburn)
Some marriages break up, and some do not, and in our world you can usually explain the former better than the latter. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)
In the early years, you fight because you don't understand each other. In the later years, you fight because you do. (Quote by - Joan Didion)
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved. It is God's finger on man's shoulder. (Quote by - Charles Morgan)
Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers (Quote by - Alan King)
Women hope men will change after marriage but they don't; men hope women won't change but they do. (Quote by - Bettina Arndt)
If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam. (Quote by - Johnny Carson)
The goal in marriage is not to think alike, but to think together. (Quote by - Robert C. Dodds)
Inertia accounts for two-thirds of marriages. But love accounts for the other third. (Quote by - Woody Allen)
Marriage, n. A community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all two. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
Matrimony is a process by which a grocer acquired an account the florist had. (Quote by - Francis Rodman)
It takes a loose rein to keep a marriage tight. (Quote by - John Stevenson)
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. (Quote by - Honore De Balzac)
Then marriage may be said to be past in all quietnesse, when the wife is blind, and the husband deafe. (Quote by - Thomas Heywood)
On her marriage breakup with Liam: I can honestly say that life is fantastic now. I'm so happy that all the mess I used to have to deal with is not my mess anymore. (Quote by - Patsy Kensit)
Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage (Quote by - John Le Carre)
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out. (Quote by - Michel de Montaigne)
All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy (Quote by - Unknown)
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
To avoid mistakes and regrets, always consult your wife before engaging in a flirtation. (Quote by - E.W. Howe)
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit. (Quote by - Billy Connolly)
If you made a list of the reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)
After a few years of marriage a man can look right at a woman without seeing her and a woman can see right through a man without looking at him. (Quote by - Helen Rowland)
Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose. (Quote by - Beverley Nichols)
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times. (Quote by - Rita Rudner)
Our marriage has always been a 50-50 proposition - with the possible exception of closet space. (Quote by - Gene Perret)
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do. (Quote by - Zsa Zsa Gabor)
Love is a flower which turns into fruit at marriage. (Quote by - Finnish Proverb)
Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does. (Quote by - Groucho Marx)
I figure that the degree of difficulty in combining two lives ranks somewhere between rerouting a hurricane and finding a parking place in downtown Manhattan. (Quote by - Claire Cloninger)
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility. (Quote by - George Levinger)
What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow. (Quote by - Nathaniel Hawthorne)
The most dangerous food is wedding cake. (Quote by - American Proverb)
Marriage is like pleading guilty to an indefinite sentence. Without parole. (Quote by - John Mortimer)
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year. (Quote by - Paul Sweeney)
Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too. (Quote by - H. L. Mencken)
No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
Marriage is like a phone call in the night: first the ring, and then you wake up. (Quote by - Evelyn Hendrickson)
Women seem to be all right on bargains till it comes to picking out a husband. (Quote by - Kin Hubbard)
When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife. (Quote by - Prince Philip)
The heart of marriage is memories; and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns, then your marriage is a gift from the gods. (Quote by - Bill Cosby)
A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing. (Quote by - Joey Adams)
It is not marriage that fails; it is people that fail. All that marriage does is to show people up. (Quote by - Harry Emerson Fosdick)
An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know. (Quote by - Bette Davis)
Marriage must constantly fight against a monster which devours everything: routine. (Quote by - Honore de Balzac)
A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short. (Quote by - Andre Maurois)
Experience, though non auctoritee Were in this world, is right ynough to me To speke of wo that is in mariage. (Quote by - Geoffrey Chaucer)
Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left. (Quote by - Jean Kerr)
Lasting harmony with a woman (was) an undertaking in which I twice failed rather disgracefully. (Quote by - Bill Cosby)
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes in between them. (Quote by - Sydney Smith)
Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. (Quote by - Cass Daley)
Marriage hath in it less of beauty but more of safety, than the single life; it hath more care, but less danger, it is more merry, and more sad; it is fuller of sorrows, and fuller of joys; it lies under more burdens, but it is supported by all the strengths of love and charity, and those burdens are delightful. (Quote by - Bishop Jeremy Taylor)
Don't smother each other. No one can grow in shade. (Quote by - Leo Buscaglia)
In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. (Quote by - Gloria Swanson)
A good marriage is like a good trade: Each thinks he got the better deal. (Quote by - Ivern Ball)
Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)
The view that a peptic ulcer may be the hole in a man's stomach through which he crawls to escape from his wife has fairly wide acceptance. (Quote by - John Allan Dalrymple Anderson)
So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three. (Quote by - Alexandre Dumas)
Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
After three failed marriages, I know what it's like to be replaced. (Quote by - Terry Bradshaw)
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married? (Quote by - Barbra Streisand)
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. (Quote by - Theodore M. Hesburgh)
Marriage ceremony: an incredible metaphysical sham of watching God and the law being dragged into the affairs of your family. (Quote by - O.C. Ogilvie)
Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive. (Quote by - Juvenal)
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. (Quote by - Gilbert Keith Chesterton)
Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed. (Quote by - Hoshang N. Akhtar)
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. (Quote by - Simone Signoret)
Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning. (Quote by - Alexis Dupuy)
The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth, and one of the shortest lived. (Quote by - Bernard De Voto)
In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body. (Quote by - William Penn)
No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single. (Quote by - H. L. Mencken)
Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world (Quote by - Erica Jong)
The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate. (Quote by - Barnett Brickner)
In the opinion of the world, marriage ends all, as it does in a comedy. The truth is precisely the opposite: it begins all. (Quote by - Anne Sophie Swetchine)
I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
But married once, a man is stak'd or pown'd, and cannot graze beyond his own hedge. (Quote by - Philip Massinger)
Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses. (Quote by - Robert Louis Stevenson)
The highest happiness on earth is marriage. (Quote by - William Lyon Phelps)
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war. (Quote by - G. K. Chesterton)
A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it. (Quote by - Frank A. Clark)
We have the greatest pre-nuptial agreement in the world. It's called love. (Quote by - Gene Perret)
Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner. (Quote by - Amy Bloom)
Love can make you do things that you never thought possible. (Quote by - Phil Collins)
She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook. (Quote by - Tommy Manville)
Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps. (Quote by - Joe Murray)
The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters. (Quote by - Harold Nicolson)
Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the common-sensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage. (Quote by - Gloria Steinem)
Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means. (Quote by - Henny Youngman)
And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living! (Quote by - Tertullian)
A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love. (Quote by - Pearl S. Buck)
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery. (Quote by - Erma Bombeck)
You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. Successful marriage demands a certain death to self. (Quote by - Jerry McCant)
Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him. (Quote by - Marilyn Monroe)
I'd like to run away From you, But if you didn't come And find me... I would die. (Quote by - Shirley Bassey)
I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it. (Quote by - Lyndon B. Johnson)
Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal. (Quote by - Louis K. Anspacher)
Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in? (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed. (Quote by - Rainer Maria Rilke)
One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again. (Quote by - Judith Viorst)
A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude (Quote by - Rainer Maria Rilke)
Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic. (Quote by - Helen Rowland)
The chief reason why marriage is rarely a success is that it is contracted while the partners are insane. (Quote by - Joseph Collins)
One thing you learn in a long marriage is how many sneezes to wait before saying, "Bless you." (Quote by - Robert Brault)
The way to hold a husband is to keep him a little jealous; the way to lose him is to keep him a little more jealous. (Quote by - H.L. Mencken)
Love is a choice you make from moment to moment. (Quote by - Barbara de Angelis)
The marriage of convenience has this to recommend it: we are better judges of convenience than we are of love. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)
Love requires a willingness to die; marriage, a willingness to live. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)
Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you. (Quote by - Helen Rowland)
I've had lots of offers of marriage and from women wanting to have my kids. (Quote by - Gareth Gates)
Most marriages can survive "better or worse." The tester is all the years of "exactly the same." (Quote by - Robert Brault)
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage." (Quote by - Herbert Spencer)
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising (Quote by - Edgar Watson Howe)
A dress that zips up the back will bring a husband and wife together. (Quote by - James H. Boren)
Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness. (Quote by - Madame de Rieux)
Love is not a matter of counting the years... But making the years count. (Quote by - Michelle St. Amand)
The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep. (Quote by - A.P. Herbert)
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it. (Quote by - Josh Billings)
It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it's separating himself from all the others. (Quote by - Helen Rowland)
Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass. (Quote by - Douglas William Jerrold)
The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through eternity. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable. (Quote by - Emma Goldman)
It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time. (Quote by - Balzac)
Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance. (Quote by - Michel de Montaigne)
The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once. (Quote by - H.V. Prochnow)
A perfect marriage is one in which "I'm sorry" is said just often enough. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)
One should never know too precisely whom one has married. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart. (Quote by - Kay Knudsen)
Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose. (Quote by - F. M. Knowles)
The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret. (Quote by - Henny Youngman)
Marriage is not about age; it's about finding the right person. (Quote by - Sophia Bush)
Marriage is a meal where the soup is better than the dessert. (Quote by - Austin O'Malley)
Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. (Quote by - H.L. Mencken)
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again.... We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring. (Quote by - Enid Bagnold)
I once read that in any good marriage, one partner is the gardener and the other is the garden. We take it in turns to be either. (Quote by - Meryl Streep)
Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight. (Quote by - Samuel Lichtenberg)
We are clear that the interpretation I have set out in this statement is correct. (Quote by - Lord Falconer)
Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses. (Quote by - English Proverb)
Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. (Quote by - William Penn)
What we love about love is the fever, which marriage puts to bed and cures. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)
Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
And when the future hinges on the next words that are said, don't let logic interfere, believe your heart instead. (Quote by - Philip Robison)
I've been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out. (Quote by - Lee Grant)
Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry. (Quote by - Rita Rudner)
There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first. (Quote by - Adela Rogers St. Johns)
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity. (Quote by - Honore De Balzac)
Affairs are just as disillusioning as marriage, and much less restful. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)
Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil. (Quote by - Byron)
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage. (Quote by - Martin Luther)
Men should keep their eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards. (Quote by - Madeleine de Scudery)
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. (Quote by - Honore de Balzac)
Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them. (Quote by - Ogden Nash)
The life and love we create is the life and love we live. (Quote by - Leo Buscaglia)
A wedding is just like a funeral except that you get to smell your own flowers. (Quote by - Grace Hansen)
Bride, n. A woman with a fine prospect behind her. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
Husbands are like fires. They go out when unattended. (Quote by - Zsa Zsa Gabor)
Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it. (Quote by - Helen Rowland)
The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then marry him. (Quote by - Cher)
You should never kiss a girl unless you have enough bucks to buy her a big ring and her own VCR, 'cause she'll want to have videos of the wedding. (Quote by - Jim)
If you haven't seen your wife smile at a traffic cop, you haven't seen her smile her prettiest. (Quote by - Kin Hubbard)
Marriage is not just spiritual communion and passionate embraces; marriage is also three meals a day, sharing the workload and remembering to carry out the trash (Quote by - Dr. Joyce Brothers)
I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book. (Quote by - Gloria Swanson)
Marriage is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important. (Quote by - Lisa Hoffman)
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities. (Quote by - Janos Arany)
A man's wife has more power over him than the state has. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. (Quote by - Nora Ephron)
In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage. (Quote by - Robert Anderson)
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
A fellow ought to save a few of the long evenings he spends with his girl till after they're married. (Quote by - Kin Hubbard)
All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble. (Quote by - Raymond Hull)
It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married. (Quote by - Robert Frost)
Originally marriage meant the sale of a woman by one man to another; now most women sell themselves though they have no intention of delivering the goods listed in the bill of sale. (Quote by - Robert Graves)
One shouldn't be too inquisitive in life Either about God's secrets or one's wife. (Quote by - Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales)
I am very glad you have heard of it, anyway. (Quote by - Prince Charles)
There is no such cozy combination as man and wife. (Quote by - Menander)
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly (Quote by - Voltaire)
God's great cosmic joke on the human race was requiring that men and women live together in marriage (Quote by - Mark Twain)
The marriage state, with or without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life. (Quote by - Richard Steele)
Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invaribly they are both disappointed. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes. (Quote by - Robert Louis Stevenson)
One man's folly is another man's wife. (Quote by - Helen Rowland)
On marriage to Madonna: 'We are not that flash, me or the missus. In fact, we are quite low-maintenance.' (Quote by - Guy Ritchie)
The reason for much matrimony is patrimony. (Quote by - Ogden Nash)
A marriage in which no quarrelling at all takes place may well be one that is dead or dying from emotional undernourishment. (Quote by - Flora Davis)
I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure. (Quote by - Herbert Samuel)
If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions. (Quote by - Gary Smalley)
I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry. (Quote by - Rita Rudner)
Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins. (Quote by - Langdon Mitchell)
Marriage is a great institution. No family should be without it. (Quote by - Mae West)
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. (Quote by - Erich Fromm)
What's for dinner?" is the only question many husbands ask their wives, and the only one to which they care about the answer. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)
Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without. (Quote by - James C. Dobson)
A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it. (Quote by - Anonymous)
Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan. (Quote by - Quentin Crisp)
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. (Quote by - Aristotle)
Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day. (Quote by - Barbara De Angelis)
I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
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. (Quote by - Sydney J. Harris)
Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred. (Quote by - William Orville Douglas)
Life is the flower for which love is the honey. (Quote by - Victor Hugo)
The homegrown tomato is best in reference to choosing a marriage partner. (Quote by - Ross Lockridge)
A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of a friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and indeed, all the sweets of life. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted. (Quote by - Helen Rowland)
Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole. (Quote by - Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly. (Quote by - Peter De Vries)
True love stories never have endings. (Quote by - Richard Bach)
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution. (Quote by - Mae West)
In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk. (Quote by - Rita Rudner)
Any married man should forget his mistakes - no use two people remembering the same thing. (Quote by - Duane Dewel)
I never even believed in divorce until after I got married. (Quote by - Diane Ford)
Thus Dante's motto over Inferno applies with equal force to marriage: "Ye who enter here leave all hope behind." (Quote by - Emma Goldman)
Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. (Quote by - John Lyly)
Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)
Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway. (Quote by - Joey Adams)
Marriage is like a beleaguered fortress: those who are outside want to get in, and those inside want to get out (Quote by - French Proverb)
One of the best things about marriage is that it gets young people to bed at a decent hour. (Quote by - M.M. Musselman)
There is a time for all things - except marriage my dear. (Quote by - Thomas Chatterton)
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person. (Quote by - W. Somerset Maugham)
Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse. (Quote by - Halen)
Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)
When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
The surest way to be alone is to get married. (Quote by - Gloria Steinem)
Marriage is a wonderful institution...but who wants to live in an institution? (Quote by - Groucho Marx)
We're good friends. I adore him and have a lot of time for him, but he's really not marriage material. He's out there and not ready to settle down. (Quote by - Sarah Harding)
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)
One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of love with him, or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you maybe fall in again. (Quote by - Judith Viorst)
Strange to say what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition. (Quote by - Samuel Pepys)
Marriage is a ghastly public confession of a strictly private intention. (Quote by - Ian Hay)
We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage. (Quote by - Albert Camus)
A love that lasts for twenty years may be better than love, but it isn't love. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)
My wife tells me she doesn't care what I do when I'm away, as long as I'm not enjoying it. (Quote by - Lee Trevino)
My advice to you is to get married. If you find a good wife, you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher. (Quote by - Socrates)
Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest. (Quote by - Irwin Corey)
Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night. (Quote by - St. Jerome)
Marriage is a mistake every man should make. (Quote by - George Jessel)
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. (Quote by - Rita Rudner)
I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage, and guarantee he'd be dead within the year. (Quote by - Bette Davis)
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent. (Quote by - Socrates)
The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle. (Quote by - Heinrich Heine)
Marriage is an Athenic weaving together of families, of two souls with their individual fates and destinies, of time and eternity - everyday life married to the timeless mysteries of the soul. (Quote by - Thomas More)
In the long run wives are to be paid in a peculiar coin - consideration for their feelings. As it usually turns out this is an enormous, unthinkable inflation few men will remit, or if they will, only with a sense of being overcharged. (Quote by - Elizabeth Hardwick)
Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)
When a girl marries she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one. (Quote by - Helen Rowland)
If I ever marry, it will be on a sudden impulse - as a man shoots himself. (Quote by - H. L. Mencken)
He's the one guy I can credit for making me think about marriage in a whole new light, because every guy I've had in my life has either lied or cheated me financially or business-wise, or taken advantaged of me. (Quote by - Christina Aguilera)
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character. (Quote by - Peter De Vries)
Most wives think of their husbands as bumbling braggarts with whom they happen to be in love. (Quote by - Jackie Gleason)
I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again. (Quote by - Noel Coward)
Our wedding was many years ago. The celebration continues to this day. (Quote by - Gene Perret)
A woman who loves her husband is merely paying her bills. A woman who loves her lover gives alms to the poor. (Quote by - Paul-Jean Toulet)
My motto is if you're not happy at home, you're not happy anywhere else, so Jason and our marriage come first. (Quote by - Angie Harmon)
Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose. (Quote by - Beverley Nichols)
Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about. (Quote by - Katharine Hepburn)
A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. (Quote by - Katherine Hepburn)
Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you. (Quote by - Jean Rostand)
There is no perfect marriage, for there are no perfect men (Quote by - French Proverb)
Love seems the swiftest but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Getting married is a lot like getting into a tub of hot water. After you get used to it, it ain't so hot. (Quote by - Minnie Pearl)
Here's to matrimony, the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented! (Quote by - Heinrich Heine)
In a time when nothing is more certain than change, the commitment of two people to one another has become difficult and rare. Yet, by its scarcity, the beauty and value of this exchange have only been enhanced. (Quote by - Robert Sexton)
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. (Quote by - Jane Austen)
We are shaped and fashioned by what we love. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Like good wine, marriage gets better with age - once you learn to keep a cork in it. (Quote by - Gene Perret)
Marriages are said to be made in Heaven, which may be why they don't work here on Earth. (Quote by - Thomas Szasz)
Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast. (Quote by - Marlene Dietrich)
It is the things in common that make relationships enjoyable, but it is the little differences that make them interesting. (Quote by - Todd Ruthman)
Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest. (Quote by - Helen Rowland)
I guess walking slow getting married is because it gives you time to maybe change your mind. (Quote by - Virginia Cary Hudson)
There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce. (Quote by - Norman Mailer)
Marriage is nature's way of ensuring that a woman picks up some mothering experience before she has her first child. (Quote by - Robert Brault)
It gives me a headache to think about that stuff. I'm just a kid. I don't need that kind of trouble. (Quote by - Kenny)
Marriage: love, honor, and negotiate. (Quote by - Joe Moore)
A woman ought to look up to her husband, if only a half-inch. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time. (Quote by - Anne Taylor Fleming)
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day. (Quote by - Andre Maurois)
A man without a wife is like a vase without flowers. (Quote by - African Proverb)
Never get married in the morning, because you never know who you'll meet that night. (Quote by - Paul Hornung)
Marriage isn't all that it's cracked up to be. Let me tell you, honestly. Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce. (Quote by - Larry Gelbart, M*A*S*H, "Bulletin Board," original airdate 14 January 1975, spoken by the character Frank Burns)
Married life teaches one invaluable lesson: to think of things far enough ahead not to say them. (Quote by - Jefferson Machamer)
Men never know how tired they are till their wives sit them down for a nice long talk. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)
The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart. (Quote by - Helen Keller)
Courtship to marriage is as a very witty prologue to a very dull play. (Quote by - William Congreve)
Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle. (Quote by - Amy Bloom)
Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking. (Quote by - Marvin Gaye)
One of the good things that come of a true marriage is, that there is one face on which changes come without your seeing them; or rather there is one face which you can still see the same, through all the shadows which years have gathered upon it. (Quote by - George MacDonald)
Come, let's be a comfortable couple and take care of each other! How glad we shall be, that we have somebody we are fond of always, to talk to and sit with. (Quote by - Charles Dickens)
The husband who doesn't tell his wife everything probably reasons that what she doesn't know won't hurt him. (Quote by - Leo J. Burke)
Remember that a successful marriage depends on two things: (1) finding the right person and (2) being the right person. (Quote by - Tom Mullen)
They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper. (Quote by - Scottish Proverb)
Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight. (Quote by - Phyllis Diller)
After the chills and fever of love, how nice is the 98.6º of marriage! (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)
