Quotes About Marriage (Page 2)

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


Marriage is one long conversation checkered by disputes.  ~ Robert Louis Stevenson


To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.  ~ G.K. Chesterton


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


Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.  ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.  ~ Pearl S. Buck


The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.  ~ Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez


Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level.  ~ Oscar Wilde


Before I got married I had six theories about raising children; now, I have six children and no theories.  ~ John Wilmot


I never knew what real happiness was until I got married. And by then it was too late.  ~ Max Kauffman


What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.  ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne


Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.  ~ Albert Einstein


It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.  ~ Rita Rudner


The highest happiness on earth is marriage.  ~ William Lyon Phelps


An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.  ~ Agatha Christie


Many marriages would be better if the husband and wife clearly understood that they're on the same side.  ~ Zig Ziglar


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


Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere.  ~ Groucho Marx


One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry.  ~ Oscar Wilde


It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.  ~ Friedrich Nietzsche


The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through eternity.  ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.  ~ Benjamin Franklin


I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.  ~ Groucho Marx


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


Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.  ~ Marilyn Monroe


Love is a fever which marriage puts to bed and cures.  ~ Richard J. Needham


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


There is no such cozy combination as man and wife.  ~ Menander


To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.  ~ G.K. Chesterton


Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it.  ~ Friedrich Nietzsche


Marriage is a great institution, and no family should be without it.  ~ Channing Pollock


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