Marriage Quotes

"In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes."
Elizabeth Ashley

"A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short."
Andre Maurois

"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

"Love is often the fruit of marriage."
Molière

"I didn't marry you because you were perfect. I didn't even marry you because I loved you. I married you because you gave me a promise. That promise made up for your faults. And the promise I gave you made up for mine. Two imperfect people got married and it was the promise that made the marriage. And when our children were growing up, it wasn't a house that protected them; and it wasn't our love that protected them - it was that promise."
Thornton Wilder

"It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners recognize their dependence on each other for the achievement of shared and private goals."
Fred Allen

"Relationships, marriages are ruined where one person continues to learn, develop and grow and the other person stands still. "
Catherine Pulsifer, from Are You Learning

"Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one."
Fredrich Halm

"We can do not great things, only small things with great love."
Mother Teresa

"There is only one happiness in life,
to love and be loved."
George Sands

"Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course."
Helen Rowland

"Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation."
Oscar Wilde

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

"A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude."
Rainer Maria Rilke

"When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on--series polygamy--until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter."
Tom Robbins

"You can't be value free when it comes to marriage."
Al Gore

"The secret to having a good marriage is to understand that marriage must be total, it must be permanent, and it must be equal."
Frank Pittman

"Matrimony, the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented."
Heinrich Heine

"The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three."
Heraclitus

"Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal."
Louis K. Anspacher

"Marriage is like a pair of shears Oft times working in opposite directions, but punishing anyone that comes between them."
Sydney Smith

"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

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

"The critical period in matrimony is breakfast-time."
Alan Herbert

"Marriage, ultimately, is the practice of becoming passionate friends.
Harville Hendrix

"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart."
Marcus Aurelius

"In all of the wedding cake, hope is the sweetest of plums."
Douglas Jerrold

"Marriage is like a school. It is a life-long span education."
Author Unknown, from Spouse from God

"The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock."
Christopher Morley

"The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population."
Denis Diderot

"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person."
Mignon McLaughlin

"The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly."
Peter De Vries

"Marriage is the foundation of the family unit."
L. Ron Hubbard

"Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile."
Franklin P. Jones

"Matrimony is a process by which a grocer acquires an account the florist had."
Francis Rodman

"The most important marriage skill is listening to your partner in a way that they can't possibly doubt that you love them."
Diane Sollee

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

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

"Beyond the element of giving, the active character of love becomes evident in the fact that it always implies certain basic elements, common to all forms of love. These are care, responsibility, respect and knowledge."
Erich Fromm

"Just the thought of being with you tomorrow is enough to get me through today."
Author Unknown

"One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of love with each other, it keeps you together until maybe you fall in again."
Judith Viorst

"To have and to hold from this day forward, for better or worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish to death do us part."
Anglican Book of Common Prayer

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

"Divorce to like an amputation. Sometimes it's necessary but it should be avoided if at all possible because it brings about a permanent disability."
Bill Doherty

"Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion."
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

"A happy marriage is a new beginning of life, a new starting point for happiness and usefulness."
Dean Stanley

"There is no remedy for love but to love more."
Thoreau

"Love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking in the same direction together."
Antonne de Saint-Exupery