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Quotes about Marriage


I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rita Rudner

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Herbert Samuel

The homegrown tomato is best (in reference to choosing a marriage partner).

Ross Lockridge

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.

Doug Larson

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

Beverley Nichols

Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage";.

Herbert Spencer

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Peter De Vries

Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.

Thornton Wilder

The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.

Henry Youngman

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

Andre Maurois

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.

Sydney Smith

Marriage is like a phone call in the night: first the ring, and then you wake up.

Evelyn Hendrickson

All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.

Raymond Hull

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

George Jessel

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State- and church-begotten weed, marriage?

Emma Goldman

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

George Levinger

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

One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.

Judith Viorst

Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.

Billy Connolly

Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.

Sydney J. Harris

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

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Washington Irving

Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Benjamin Franklin

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

Ambrose Bierce

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

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