Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.
Harlan Miller
God's great cosmic joke on the human race was requiring that men and women live together in marriage
Mark Twain
Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.
Louis K. Anspacher
The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Harold Nicolson
A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
Andre Maurois
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate.
Barnett Brickner
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.
Barbara De Angelis
Marriage is a wonderful institution...but who wants to live in an institution?
Groucho Marx
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
Jane Austen
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
Honore de Balzac
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.
Emma Goldman
Marriage," "mating," and "love" are socially constructed phenomena that have little or no transferable meaning outside any given culture. The examples we've noted of rampant ritualized group sex, mate-swapping, unrestrained casual affairs, and socially sanctioned sequential sex were all reported in cultures that anthropologists insist are monogamous simply because they've determined that something they call "marriage" takes place there. No wonder so many insist that marriage, monogamy, and the nuclear family are human universals. With such all-encompassing interpretations of the concepts, even the prairie vole, who "sleeps with anyone," would qualify.
Christopher Ryan