Quotes About Marriage (Page 2)

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.  ~ Ogden Nash


Marriage is one long conversation checkered by disputes.  ~ Robert Louis Stevenson


To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.  ~ G.K. Chesterton


The more you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes.  ~ Amy Grant


Getting married is like trading in the adoration of many for the sarcasm of one.   ~ Mae West


Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.  ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.  ~ Robert Louis Stevenson


The secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.  ~ Bette Davis


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


The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.  ~ Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez


Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level.  ~ Oscar Wilde


Before I got married I had six theories about raising children; now, I have six children and no theories.  ~ John Wilmot


I never knew what real happiness was until I got married. And by then it was too late.  ~ Max Kauffman


What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.  ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne


Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.  ~ Albert Einstein


It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.  ~ Rita Rudner


The highest happiness on earth is marriage.  ~ William Lyon Phelps


An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.  ~ Agatha Christie


Many marriages would be better if the husband and wife clearly understood that they're on the same side.  ~ Zig Ziglar


I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.  ~ Rita Rudner


Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere.  ~ Groucho Marx


Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.  ~ Jill Bennett


One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry.  ~ Oscar Wilde


It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.  ~ Friedrich Nietzsche


The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through eternity.  ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.  ~ Benjamin Franklin


I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.  ~ Groucho Marx


One should never know too precisely whom one has married.  ~ Friedrich Nietzsche


Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without.  ~ James C. Dobson


Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.  ~ Marilyn Monroe


Love is a fever which marriage puts to bed and cures.  ~ Richard J. Needham


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


There is no such cozy combination as man and wife.  ~ Menander


When one cries, the other tastes salt.  ~ Hebrew saying


More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.  ~ Rainer Maria Rilke


I'm not married. I hope to be someday so I can stop exercising.  ~ Jeff Stilson


If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.  ~ Katherine Hepburn


To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.  ~ G.K. Chesterton


Some women have the best husbands. Others make the best of the husbands they have.~ Ann Landers


Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it.  ~ Friedrich Nietzsche


Marriage is a great institution, and no family should be without it.  ~ Channing Pollock


To marry a woman you love and who loves you is to lay a wager with her as to who will stop loving the first.  ~ Alfred Capus


I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.  ~ Candice Bergen


Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.  ~ John Updike


Marriage is a covered dish.  ~ Swiss proverb


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