Marriage Quotes, Quotations and sayings
Marriages are made in heaven.
Proverb
A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he’s finished.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one a failure.
Herbert Samuel
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
Michel de Montaigne
Marriage is nothing but a civil contract.
John Selde
Love is a flower which turns into fruit at marriage.
Finnish Proverb
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Mignon McLaughlin
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
Samuel Johnson
Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse-pond.
Thomas Love Peacock
In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.
Gerald Brenan
Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.
Beverley Nichols
In the opinion of the world, marriage ends all, as it does in a comedy. The truth is precisely the opposite: it begins all.
Anne Sophie Swetchine
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.
Judith Viorst
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate.
Barnett R. Brickner
My definition of marriage:….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.
Sydney Smith
A bachelor lives like a king and dies like a beggar.
L. S. Lowry
Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
English Proverb
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can’t sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can’t sleep with the window open.
George Bernard Shaw
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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.
Marnie Reed Crowell
Marry in Lent, and you’ll live to repent.
Proverb
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Voltaire
Marriage is a step so grave and decisive that it attracts light-headed, variable men by its very awfulness.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Marriage is like life in this – that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses.
Robert Louis Stevenson
What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Never marry for money. Ye’ll borrow it cheaper.
Scottish Proverb
A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time.
Jean Rostand
The more you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes.
Amy Grant
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years.
Simone Signoret
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