Marriage Quotes

"By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher."
-Socrates

"Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success."
-Oscar Wilde

"The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding."
-Oscar Wilde

"Men should be like Kleenex, soft, strong and disposable."
-M. C. Escher

"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

"A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it."
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married."
-Cyril Connolly

"If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it."
-Lawana Blackwell

"Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising."
-Edgar Watson Howe

"Only choose in marriage a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man."
-Joseph Joubert

"Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night."
-Saint Jerome

"You don't have to be married to have a good friend as your partner for life."
-Greta Garbo

"There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it."
-Samuel Johnson

"We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years."
-Nick Faldo

"Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife."
-Euripides

"Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond."
-Thomas Love Peacock

"Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats."
-Marge Piercy

"Most men find it difficult to remain true to a single woman, but relatively easy to be true to three or four at the same time."
-Georges Courteline

"Marriage is the tomb of love."
-Giacomo Casanova

"The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep."
-Alan Patrick Herbert

"Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability."
-Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

"Matrimony is a process by which a grocer acquired an account the florist had."
-Frances Rodman

"The secret of a good marriage is forgiving your partner for marrying you in the first place."
-Sacha Guitry

"Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit."
-Billy Connolly

"A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband."
-Honore De Balzac

"In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk."
-Rita Rudner

"Marriage is a mistake every man should make."
-George Jessel