Marriage Quotes

MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN:
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

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


Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.  ~H.L. Mencken, A Book of Burlesques, 1916


The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.  ~Peter De Vries


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


Marriage, n.  A community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all two.  ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911


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


Newlyweds become oldyweds, and oldyweds are the reasons that families work.  ~Author Unknown


Chains do not hold a marriage together.  It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years.  ~Simone Signoret


Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate.  ~Barnett R. Brickner


A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.  ~Anne Taylor Fleming


Never get married in the morning, because you never know who you'll meet that night.  ~Paul Hornung