Marriage Quotes

SOCRATES:

My advice to you is to get married. If you find a good wife, you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.

TOM MULLEN:
Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they blossom when we love the ones we marry.

W. H. AUDEN:
Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.


WILL ROGERS:
Elections are a good deal like marriages. There's no accounting for anyone's taste. Every time we see a bridegroom we wonder why she ever picked him, and it's the same with public officials.


WILL STANTON:
Getting a dog is like getting married. It teaches you to be less self-centered, to accept sudden, surprising outbursts of affection, and not to be upset by a few scratches on your car.


More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse. ~Doug Larson

Divorce: The past tense of marriage. ~Author Unknown


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


Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. ~Katherine Hepburn


A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage. ~Robert Anderson, Solitaire & Double Solitaire


The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through eternity. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


NANETTE NEWMAN:
A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.


OGDEN NASH:


To keep your marriage brimming,
With love in the loving cup,
Whenever you're wrong admit it;
Whenever you're right shut up.