Marriage Quotes

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day. (André Maurois)
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. View quote
Mignon McLaughlin
Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil. View quote
Menander
There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded. View quote
Diana, Princess of Wales
Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain. View quote
Euripides
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
There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again. View quote
Clint Eastwood
Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret. View quote
Henny Youngman
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. View quote
Jane Austen
Of all serious things, marriage is the most ludicrous. (Pierre Beaumarchais)
Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution. View quote
Mae West
A happy marriage is a long conversation that always seems too short. View quote
André Maurois
A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after. View quote
Gloria Steinem
Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history. View quote
Nicolas Chamfort
A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. View quote
John Steinbeck
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. View quote
Marilyn Monroe
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
There are four stages to marriage. First there's the affair, then there's the marriage, then children, and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce. View quote
Norman Mailer
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. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises. (André Maurois)
Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation. View quote
Samuel Richardson
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
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