Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
Francis Bacon
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
All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.
Lord Byron
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.
Samuel Johnson
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
Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they blossom when we love the ones we marry.
Tom Mullen
Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they blossom when we love the ones we marry.
Tom Mullen
Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins.
Lao Tzu
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
G. K. Chesterton
Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree
Oscar Wilde
I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
Rita Rudner
Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
Katharine Hepburn
Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
St. Jerome