Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.
Joseph Barth
Love: a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.
Ambrose Bierce
If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
Anne Bradstreet
Marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
Samuel Johnson
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Oscar Wilde
I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
Mohandas K. Gandhi
All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
John Berger
The goal in marriage is not to think alike, but to think together.
Robert C. Dodds
He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.
Francis Bacon
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.
Helen Rowland
I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
Gloria Steinem
A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude.
Rainer Maria Rilke
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Mignon McLaughlin
Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.
Dick Gregory
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
Homer
What you are as a single person, you will be as a married person, only to a greater degree. Any negative character trait will be intensified in a marriage relationship, because you will feel free to let your guard down, that person has committed himself to you and you no longer have to worry about scaring him off.
Josh McDowell
Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.
Joyce Brothers
My husband and I have never considered divorce… murder sometimes, but never divorce.
Joyce Brothers
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
Katharine Hepburn
Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.
Louis K. Anspacher
Only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, the the other, to let her have it.
Lyndon B. Johnson
After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.
Mark Twain
Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.
Mark Twain
A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.
Nanette Newman
To keep your marriage brimming,
With love in the loving cup,
Whenever you’re wrong admit it;
Whenever you’re right shut up.
Ogden Nash
Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets.
Ogden Nash
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
Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They’ve experienced pain and bought jewelry.
Rita Rudner
If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don’t blame the women’s movement. Blame the obsolete s*x roles on which our marriages were based.
Betty Friedan-1974*
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-1976*
One of the first things a relationship therapist learns is that couples argue to burn up energy that could be used for something else. In fact, arguments often serve the purpose of using up energy, so that the couple do not have to take the courageous, creative leap into an unknown they fear. Arguing serves the function of being a zone of familiarity into which you can retreat when you are afraid of making a creative breakthrough.
Gay Hendricks
Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.
Harriet Martineau
For two people in a marriage to live together day after day is unquestionably the one miracle the Vatican has overlooked.
Bill Cosby
There are two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone who won’t stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won’t go?
Danny Devito
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
My advice to you is to get married. If you find a good wife, you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.
Socrates
Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they blossom when we love the ones we marry.
Tom Mullen
Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
W. H. Auden
Elections are a good deal like marriages. There’s no accounting for anyone’s taste. Every time we see a bridegroom we wonder why she ever picked him, and it’s the same with public officials.
Will Rogers
Getting a dog is like getting married. It teaches you to be less self-centered, to accept sudden, surprising outbursts of affection, and not to be upset by a few scratches on your car.
Will Stanton
Love at first sight is easy to understand; it’s when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.
Amy Bloom
All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest, never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.
Ann Landers-1968*