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- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two
bodies.
Aristotle
- A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the
same person.
Germaine Greer
- 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
- To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply
gives you courage.
Lao Tzu
- Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept
away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore
together wing to wing and oar to oar.
Robert Frost
- 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
- Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Roy Goodman
- Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
Friedrich Halm
- There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or
company than a good marriage.
Martin Luther
- People shop for a bathing suit with more care than
they do a husband or wife. The rules are the same. Look for something you'll
feel comfortable wearing. Allow for room to grow.
Erma Bombeck
- The Japanese have a word for it.
It's Judo -- the art of conquering by yielding.
The Western equivalent of judo is, 'Yes, dear.'
J. P. McEvoy
- Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
Mae West
- One advantage of marriage it seems to me is that when you fall out of love
with him or he falls out of love with you it keeps you together until maybe
you fall in again.
Judith Viorst
- Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly
understood that they are on the same side.
Zig Ziglar
- Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her
sorry to see him leave.
Martin Luther
- 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
- A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
Andre Maurois (1885 - 1967)
- 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 (1918 - 2002)
- 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
- I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options.
That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course,
you have to be someone more. Candice Bergen (1946 - )
- All marriages are mixed marriages.
Chantal Saperstein
- There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what
it is I'll get married again.
Clint Eastwood (1930 - )
- A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is
when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.
Dave Meurer, "Daze of Our Wives"
- Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and
guides them to the future.
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Our Wedding, 1992
- Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.
Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Antigone
- Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.
Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Alcestis, 438 B.C.
- One man's folly is another man's wife.
Helen Rowland (1876 - 1950)
- Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that
almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care
in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable
mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.
J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973), Letter to Michael Tolkien, March 1941
- I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject
of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down
that they have not yet seen the right person.
Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
- Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper
from the state. Kathleen Norris
- If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life
could compensate for it.
Lawana Blackwell, The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, 1998
- Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution
yet.
Mae West (1892 - 1980)
- Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work
out, you haven't wasted a whole day.
Mickey Rooney (1920 - )
- A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with
the same person. Mignon McLaughlin
- My toughest fight was with my first wife.
Muhammad Ali (1942 - )
- We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married
for four and a half years.
Nick Faldo
- If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.
Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD)
- 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.
Paul Tournier
- A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the
individuals and in the way they express their love.
Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973)
- I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you
want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Rita Rudner
- In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.
Rita Rudner
- When I meet a man I ask myself, 'Is this the man I want my children to
spend their weekends with?'
Rita Rudner
- Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to
find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't
part of the equation. Survival was.
Robin Green, Northern Exposure, Burning Down the House, 1992
- Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange
meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances,
reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to
divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when
they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together.
They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before
concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with
cruelty.
Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), Rasselas
- 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 (1709 - 1784), Rambler #18
- Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
Billy Sunday
- Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
- The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.
Henny Youngman
- I know you've been married to the same woman for 69 years. That is
marvelous. It must be very inexpensive.
Johnny Carson
- Without thinking highly either of men or matrimony, marriage had always
been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated
young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness,
must be their pleasantest preservative from want.
Pride and Prejudice (1813) ch. 22
- MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a
master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.
The Devil’s Dictionary (1911) p. 213
Ambrose Bierce
- Love and marriage, love and marriage,
Go together like a horse and carriage,
This I tell ya, brother,
Ya can’t have one without the other.
Love and Marriage (1955 song; music by James Van Heusen)
Sammy Cahn
- Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with
the maximum of opportunity.
Man and Superman (1903) 'Maxims: Marriage'
George Bernard Shaw
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