Marriage Quotes

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

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.

Sydney Smith

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude

Rainer Maria Rilke

Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it. And the only possible way to accomplish this great change is to accord to women equal power in the making, shaping and controlling of the circumstances of life.

Susan Brownell Anthony Jacob

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.

Joyce Brothers

The friendship between a man and a woman which does not lead to marriage or desire for marriage may be a life long experience of the greatest value to themselves and to all their circle of acquaintance and of activity; but for this type of friendship both a rare man and a rare woman are needed. Perhaps it should be added that either the man or the woman thus deeply bound in lifelong friendship who seeks marriage must find a still rarer man or woman to wed, to make such a three cornered comradeship a permanent success.

Anna Garlin Spencer

If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee

Anne Bradstreet

Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.

Aeschylus

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

Francis Bacon

Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Jim Backus

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.

Amy Bloom

Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.

Erma Bombeck

In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.

Samuel Butler

The goal in marriage is not to think alike, but to think together.

Robert C. Dodds

Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.

Anonymous

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

Jane Austen

Marriage is an institution and that's where a couple finish up.

Les Dawson

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Madame de Rieux

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

John Lyly

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.

Doug Larson

Marriage is a wonderful institution...but who wants to live in an institution?

Groucho Marx

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