Marriage Quotes

Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.

William Somerset Maugham

Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.

Beverley Nichols

Marriage is a great institution. No family should be without it.

Mae West

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Honore de Balzac

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

George Bernard Shaw

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 is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.

Oscar Wilde

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Helen Rowland

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

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Martin Luther

Marriage is an Athenic weaving together of families, of two souls with their individual fates and destinies, of time and eternity - everyday life married to the timeless mysteries of the soul.

Thomas More

Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.

William Orville Douglas

Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising

Edgar Watson Howe

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

Andre Maurois

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

Peter De Vries