Marriage Quotes
Most popular marriage quotes
Living together is an art. It's a patient art, it's a beautiful art, it's fascinating.
Domesticity is no passport to heaven on earth but an arduous vocation—a sea full of hidden rocks and perilous ice shores only to be navigated by one who uses a celestial chart.
To protect ourselves against the storms of passion, marriage with a good woman is a harbor in the tempest; but with a bad woman it is a tempest in the harbor.
The happiest mortals on earth are ladies who have been bereaved by the loss of their husbands.
Remember, the only difference between 'marital' and 'martial' is where you put the 'i.'
Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.
A man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.
Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.
A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
Love is an ideal thing; marriage is a real thing. A confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
Of earthly goods, the best is a good wife; A bad, the bitterest curse of human life.
The ideal is to look upon marriage as a sacrament and therefore to lead a life of self-restraint in the married state.
Marry, and with luck it may go well. But when marriage fails, then those who marry lie at home in hell.
It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keeps a husband.
A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.
By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy — and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockheaded enough to have me.
In marriage, you shouldn't look for someone with good looks and character. You look for someone with low expectations.
The best way to get a good spouse is to deserve a good spouse.
The highest form that civilization can reach is a seamless web of deserved trust—not much procedure, just totally reliable people correctly trusting one another. . . . In your own life what you want is a seamless web of deserved trust. And if your proposed marriage contract has forty-seven pages, I suggest you not enter.
![When the husband or the wife gets accustomed to [the other's] love and to family, then they begin to stop valuing one another, to stop giving thanks and to stop taking care of what they have. - Pope Francis quote.](/img/q/06/12606A-when-the-husband-or-the-wife-gets-accustomed-others-love-pope-francis.png)
When the husband or the wife gets accustomed to [the other's] love and to family, then they begin to stop valuing one another, to stop giving thanks and to stop taking care of what they have.
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.
It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it's separating himself from all the others.
Marriage should be a duet—when one sings, the other claps.
Whoever thinks marriage is a 50–50 proposition doesn't know the half of it.
A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possibility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.
More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.
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.
Marriage is a covered dish.
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.
Marriage has teeth, and him bite very hot.
Getting married is easy. Staying married is more difficult. Staying happily married for a lifetime should rank among the fine arts.
Marriage is like vitamins: we supplement each other 's minimum daily requirements.
Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
A good marriage is like an incredible retirement fund. You put everything you have into it during your productive life, and over the years it turns from silver to gold to platinum.
In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage.
If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a lot of overlapping.
The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
Story writers say that love is concerned only with young people, and the excitement and glamour of romance end at the altar. How blind they are. The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before.
It takes a loose rein to keep a marriage tight.
The great thing about marriage is that it enables one to be alone without feeling loneliness.
A happy marriage is the world's best bargain.
Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
The particular charm of marriage, which may grow irresistible to those who once have tasted it, is the duologue, the permanent conversation between two people who talk over everything and everyone till death breaks the record.
In marriage, being the right person is as important as finding the right person.
In a successful marriage, there is no such thing as one's way. There is only the way of both, only the bumpy, dusty, difficult, but always mutual path.
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.
All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, appreciated a little.
Marriage should, I think, always be a little hard and new and strange. It should be breaking your shell and going into another world, and a bigger one.
A happy marriage is a long conversation that always seems too short.
The difference between courtship and marriage is the difference between the pictures in a seed catalogue and what comes up.
The greatest of all arts is the art of living together.
A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
You don't marry one person; you marry three: the person you think they are, the person they are, and the person they are going to become as the result of being married to you.
Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning handsprings or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.
The goal in marriage is not to think alike, but to think together.
Married life teaches one invaluable lesson: to think of things far enough ahead not to say them.
The marriages we regard as the happiest are those in which each of the partners believes that he or she got the best of it.
Matrimony is the only game of chance the clergy favor.
Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There's too much fraternizing with the enemy.
Marrying for money is probably a bad idea under any circumstances, but it is absolutely nuts if you are already rich.
We don't go into companies with the thought of effecting a lot of changes. That doesn't work any better in investments than it does in marriages.
Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
Look for a sweet person. Forget rich.
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.
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
Marriage is a public declaration of a man and a woman that they have formed a secret alliance, with the intention to belong to, and share with each other, a mystical estate; mystical exactly in the sense that the real experience cannot be communicated to others, nor explained even to oneself on rational grounds.
You don't marry one person; you marry three: the person you think they are, the person they are, and the person they are going to become as a result of being married to you.
Marriage isn't a love affair. It isn't even a honeymoon. It's a job. A long hard job, at which both partners have to work, harder than they've worked at anything in their lives before.
Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well-ordered and protected and guarded. Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?
Many married couples separate because they quarrel incessantly, but just as many separate because they were never honest enough or courageous enough to quarrel when they should have.
If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.
Love as a relation between men and women was ruined by the desire to make sure of the legitimacy of children.
Whoever perpetrated the mathematical inaccuracy "two can live as cheaply as one" has a lot to answer for.
A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
It is difficult to tell which gives some couples the most happiness, the minister who marries them, or the judge who divorces them.
There is no greater excitement than to support an intellectual wife and have her support you. Marriage is a partnership in which each inspires the other, and brings fruition to both of you.
The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.
Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
When a couple of young people strongly devoted to each other commence to eat onions, it is safe to pronounce them engaged.
Men are nicer to the women they don't marry.
Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.
I married beneath me, all women do.
A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.
Marriage is a wonderful institution...but who wants to live in an institution?
I can't mate in captivity.
When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.
In Hollywood, all marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes the problems.
When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!
Marriage is the only adventure open to the timid.
What has the women's movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro's candidacy for vice president? Never get married.
Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.
The fundamental error of their matrimonial union: that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeling .
Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.
Marriage may be compared to a cage: the birds outside frantic to get in and those inside frantic to get out.
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterward. Keep your eyes open before marriage.
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
Well married, a man is winged—ill-married, he is shackled.
Wedlock - The deep, deep peace of the double bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-longue.
It is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.
Proposals make cowards of us all.
Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.
Every woman should marry—and no man.
I never knew what real happiness was until I got married. And by then it was too late.
Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.
By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Matrimony is a process by which a grocer acquired an account the florist had.
Before marriage, a man will lie awake thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll fall asleep before you.
There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is to enjoy earning it.
If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, says Socrates, he will be sure to repent.
Take it from me, marriage isn't a word - it's a sentence.
We would have broken up except for the children. Who were the children? Well, she and I were.
The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to step back and see where the wife was wrong.
A man without a wife is like a vase without flowers.
Marriage is the only war where one sleeps with the enemy.
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
I would like to have engraved inside every wedding band, 'Be kind to one another.' This is the Golden Rule of marriage and the secret of making love last through the years.
It is a lovely thing to have a husband and wife developing together and having the feeling of falling in love again. That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.
To keep the fire burning brightly there's one easy rule: Keep the two logs together, near enough to keep each other warm and far enough apart-about a finger's breadth-for breathing room. Good fire, good marriage, same rule.
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
To have and to hold, from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death do us part.
Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle.
The great majority of severe neuroses in women have their origin in the marriage bed.
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
Marriage is like a warm bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.
Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
A man marries a woman hoping she'll never change—and she does. A woman marries a man hoping he will change—and he doesn't.
In married conversation, as in surgery, the knife must be used with care.
Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
Ultimately, the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or friendship, is conversation.
There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship—only backward.
There can be no summary and dramatic end to a marriage—only a slow and painful unraveling of a tangled skein of threads too stubborn to be broken.
I find to my astonishment that an unhappy marriage goes on being unhappy when it is over.
Successful marriage: The union of two good forgivers.
In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.
Habit is the chloroform of love. Habit is the cement that unites long-wedded couples.
There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.
The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, haven taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.
There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.
Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle.
When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she became a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.
There is not one in a hundred of either sex who is not taken in when they marry. Look where I will, I see that it is so; and I feel that it must be so, when I consider that it is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest themselves.
Marriage must constantly fight against a monster which devours everything: routine.
A man cannot marry before he has studied anatomy and has dissected at least one woman.
Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.
Well-married, a man is winged; ill-matched, he is shackled.
Marriage, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
Marriage is not just spiritual communion and passionate embraces; marriage is also three-meals-a-day and remembering to carry out the trash.
The only real argument for marriage is that it remains the best method for getting acquainted.
One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.
I can't contradict what so oft has been said. "Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil."
Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one.
The deep, deep peace of the double bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-longue.
To marry a woman you love and who loves you is to lay a wager with her as to who will stop loving the other first.
It has been said, you know—and I think quite truly—that you can only really get under anybody's skin if you are married to them.
Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.
Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
Marriage is not a noun, it's a verb. It's not something you have, like a house or a car. It is not a piece of paper that proves you are husband and wife.
For the whole thing about matrimony is this: We fall in love with a personality, but we must live with a character.
The chains of marriage are so heavy that it takes two to bear them, sometimes three.
One of the differences between marriage and prostitution is that in marriage you only have to make a deal with one man.
Marriage is socialism among two people.
Marriage is the perfection which love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought.
It seemed to me that the desire to get married—which, I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women—is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge, which is to be single again.
Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded?
Love-matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.
Let there be spaces in your togetherness.
Marriage is like a war. There are moments of chivalry and gallantry that attend the victorious advances and strategic retreats, the birth or death of children, the momentary conquest of loneliness, the sacrifice that ennobles him who makes it. But mostly there are the long dull sieges, the waiting, the terror and boredom. Women understand this better than men; they are better able to survive attrition.
Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity, it led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.
In every house of marriage there's room for an interpreter.
Marriage is not a reform school.
A marriage is like a company with equal partners. No one rules. If there is a disagreement, the more intelligent of the two should override.
In a successful marriage, there is no such thing as one's way. There is only the way of both, only the bumpy, dusty, difficult, but always mutual path!
Whenever a husband and a wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.
Marriage involves big compromises all the time. International-level compromises. You're the U.S.A., he's the U.S.S.R., and you're talking nuclear warheads.
Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house.
Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins.
One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.
Marriage defeats and humbles the man since it soon or late robs him of his greatest bulwark, viz., vanity.
Marriage is based on the theory that when a man discovers a particular brand of beer exactly to his taste he should at once throw up his job and go to work in the brewery.
Our marriage works because we each carry clubs of equal weight and size.
Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.
A good marriage shuts out a very great deal.
To marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.
Did you ever hear my definition of marriage? It is, that it resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.
In a word, the married state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of heaven and hell we are capable of receiving in this life.
Marriage isn't a word—it's a sentence!
A great marriage is like two trees standing tall, side by side. Their branches intertwine so beautifully, so gracefully, they almost become one, yet they remain two. Standing together, they are strong, beautiful and better able to withstand the high winds of storms that come now and then. They are separate living things, yet so interdependent, growing more beautifully entwined year after year. Providing shade, comfort, and safety for each other and all who walk their way.
Marriage is a great institution—but I'm not ready for an institution.
Every marriage is a battle between two families struggling to reproduce themselves.
Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder.
The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so.
Marriage is not a noun, it's a verb. It's not something you have, like a house or a car. It is not a piece of paper that proves you are husband and wife.
Unable to suppress love, the Church wanted at least to disinfect it, and it created marriage.
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.
Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.
To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
In married life three is company and two none.
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.
The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
It means you learn about yourself from constant dialogue with one another. Establishing new circuits in the satellite transmitting your emotions.
May your vows and this marriage be blessed... May this marriage offer fruit and shade like the date palm. May this marriage be full of laughter, your every day a day in paradise. May this marriage be a sign of compassion, a seal of happiness here and hereafter. May this marriage be...an omen as welcome as the moon in a clear evening sky... May spirit enter and mingle in this marriage.
We should always be grateful for the faults in our partner because if they didn't have those faults from the start, they would have been able to marry someone much better than us.
