Marriage Quotes - page 2

Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them. (Ogden Nash)
Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner. View quote
John Updike
Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty. View quote
Ron Paul
You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse. View quote
Omar Khayyám
Before marriage, a man will lie awake thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it. View quote
Helen Rowland
Bring home a wife to your house when you are of the right age, while you are not far short of thirty years nor much above; this is the right age for marriage. View quote
Hesiod
We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage. View quote
Robin Morgan
I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading. View quote
Vera Brittain
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery. View quote
Erma Bombeck
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. View quote
Ann Landers
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)
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes in between them. View quote
Sydney Smith
A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love. View quote
Pearl S. Buck
The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults. View quote
Peter De Vries
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution? View quote
Groucho Marx
That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds. View quote
John Updike
The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop. View quote
John Updike
Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others! View quote
William Hazlitt
Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest. View quote
George Eliot
Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it. (W. Somerset Maugham)
Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder. View quote
Thornton Wilder
Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease, like caries and many other ailments, is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse. View quote
P. G. Wodehouse