Explore Quotes on Marriage

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.

Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

It was only long after the ceremony that we learned why we got married in the first place.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Find an independent woman-who loves you for you and will be your best friend. I got it right the first time and was very, very lucky.

For 50 percent of Americans marriage is forever, for the rest of us there is another adventure.

Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

At least it's better to be married than to be dead.

I never grew up dreaming about a wedding - I don't think about things like that. I don't know how to explain it. All I care about is to be happy.

Above all never forget that a marriage is in one way very much like a newspaper. It has to be made fresh every damn day of every damn year.

The idea that you're completing someone else in a marriage to me is death. That to me is a false start and most of us are usually taught that ... you've got to stand on your own. Then you can build something extraordinary.

In my parents I saw a model where they were really always communicating, doing things together. They were really kind of a team. I wanted some of that magic myself.

Marital happiness is far more important than anything else in determining personal well-being.

Part of the impetus for my writing is the pain I've seen my friends experience both in their marriage and in their dreams.