Marriage Quotes

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Andre Maurois

The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.

Harold Nicolson

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

Louis K. Anspacher

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

Mark Twain

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

Joseph Campbell

Any woman who still thinks marriage is a fifty-fifty proposition is only proving that she doesn't understand either men or percentages

Rose F. Kennedy

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

Alan King

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.

Oscar Wilde

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.

Bill Cosby

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Marriage is like a beleaguered fortress: those who are outside want to get in, and those inside want to get out

French Proverb

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

Dr. Joyce Brothers

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 good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl S. Buck