Marriage Quotes
Marriage quotes refer to the commitment between two people in love. Vows can vary, but the intention of couples getting married is to live together, happily ever after. It is a legal and moral commitment. Do things always work out that way?
Read more...Of course not, but that does not mean most of us have given up on the idea. Statistics show married people live longer, healthier lives. Are they happier? It depends on the couple. According to Nietzsche, “It is not lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.” Maybe we should change the traditional vows to read: Love, cherish and be best friends. What do you think? (Read less)
To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
Susan B. Anthony
Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
Amy Bloom
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day to day basis.
Margaret Bonnano
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.
Robert Browning
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
You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets.
Nora Ephron
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Germaine Greer
Marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
Samuel Johnson
Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
Jean Kerr
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
Ellen Key
A happy marriage is a long conversation that always seems too short.
Andre Maurois
Family life is full of major and minor crises- the ups and downs of health, success and failure in career, marriage, and divorce-and all kinds of characters. It is tied to places and events and histories. With all of these felt details, life etches itself into memory and personality. It's difficult to imagine anything more nourishing to the soul.
Thomas Moore
Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
Iris Murdoch
It is not lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; those who are on the inside wish to get out.
Arabian Proverb
If you want happiness for an hour – take a nap. If you want happiness for a day – go fishing. If you want happiness for a month – get married. If you want happiness for a year – inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime – help others.
Chinese Proverb
I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Although there are many trial marriages... there is no such thing as a trial child.
Gail Sheehy
I would say that the surest measure of a man’s or woman’s maturity is the harmony, style, joy and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.
Benjamin Spock
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
Barbra Streisand
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Oscar Wilde
Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.
Joanne Woodward
For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end.
Catherine Zeta-Jones
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