Marriage Quotes

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.
Joseph Addison 1672

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

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.
Amy Bloom

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
Hoshang N. Akhtar

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

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.
Cass Daley

Marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. That is what makes a marriage last --more than passion or even sex!
Simone Signoret

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invaribly they are both disappointed.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

Remember that a successful marriage depends on two things: (1) finding the right person and (2) being the right person
Tom Mullen

Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate.
Barnett Brickner

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

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

God's great cosmic joke on the human race was requiring that men and women live together in marriage

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.
Harlan Miller

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

If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books.
Alan King

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

The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last.
Andrew Sullivan







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