Quotes about Marriage
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What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow. - Nathaniel Hawthorne
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. - H.L. Mencken
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly. - Peter De Vries
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. - Rita Rudner
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. - George Bernard Shaw
Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There's too much fraternizing with the enemy. - Henry Kissinger Quote
Newlyweds become oldyweds, and oldyweds are the reasons that families work. - Author Unknown
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. - Simone Signoret
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate. - Barnett R. Brickner
A married couple that plays cards together is just a fight that hasn't started yet. - George Burns, Gracie a Love Story
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time. - Anne Taylor Fleming
Never get married in the morning, because you never know who you'll meet that night. - Paul Hornung
More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse. - Doug Larson
Divorce: The past tense of marriage. - Author Unknown
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. - Mignon McLaughlin, The second neurotic's notebook
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. - Robert Anderson, Solitaire/Double Solitaire
There is no such cozy combination as man and wife. - Menander
Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight. - Phyllis Diller, Phyllis Diller's Housekeeping Hints
In the opinion of the world, marriage ends all, as it does in a comedy. The truth is precisely the opposite: it begins all. - Anne Sophie Swetchine
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. - Mignon McLaughlin
If two stand shoulder to shoulder against the gods,
Happy together, the gods themselves are helpless
Against them while they stand so.
- Maxwell Anderson
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for granted relationship. - Iris Murdoch
English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. - Author Unknown
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year. - Paul Sweeney
Matrimony is a process by which a grocer acquired an account the florist had. - Francis Rodman
Love is a flower which turns into fruit at marriage. - Finnish Proverb
A dress that zips up the back will bring a husband and wife together. - James H. Boren
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. - George MacDonald
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. - Mark Twain Quote
Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you. - Jean Rostand
Our wedding was many years ago. The celebration continues to this day. - Gene Perret
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. - Claire Cloninger, When the Glass Slipper Doesn't Fit and the Silver Spoon Is in Someone Else's Mouth
A man's wife has more power over him than the state has. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
I never knew what real happiness was until I got married. And by then it was too late. - Max Kauffman
Don't smother each other. No one can grow in shade. - Leo Buscaglia
Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without. - Dr. James C. Dobson
We have the greatest pre-nuptial agreement in the world. It's called love. - Gene Perret
It takes a loose rein to keep a marriage tight. - John Stevenson
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. - Oscar Wilde
Our marriage has always been a 50-50 proposition - with the possible exception of closet space. - Gene Perret
There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first. - Adela Rogers St. Johns
Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast. - Marlene Dietrich
Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman. - Joseph Joubert
Never strike your wife - even with a flower. - Hindu Proverb
