“Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.” - Benjamin Franklin |
“Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply
purgatory.”
- Abraham Lincoln |
“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 |
“A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt
every day.”
- Andre Maurois |
“By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become
happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.”
- Socrates |
“Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if
a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.”
- Elbert Hubbard |
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that
makes unhappy marriages.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche |
“My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to
persuade my wife to marry me.”
- Winston Churchill |
“Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let
him make her sorry to see him leave.”
- Martin Luther |
“A good husband makes a good wife.”
- John Florio |
“A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf
husband.”
- Michel de Montaigne |
“A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems
too short.”
- Andre Maurois |
“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 |
“Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest
that God can't help but smile on it.”
- Josh Billings |
“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.”
- Marilyn Monroe |
“Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a
bicycle repair kit.”
- Billy Connolly |
“The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.” - Henny Youngman |
“It is a full time job being honest one moment at a time,
remembering to love, to honor, to respect. It is a practice, a discipline,
worthy of every moment.”
- Jasmine Guy |
“One should always be in love. That is the reason one
should never marry.”
- Oscar Wilde |
“Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other
claps.”
- Joe Murray |
“There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a
married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.”
- Oscar Wilde |
“Marriage, a market which has nothing
free but the entrance.”
- Michel de Montaigne |
“Married men live longer than single men. But married men
are a lot more willing to die.”
- Johnny Carson |
“Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never
remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.”
- Ogden Nash |
“Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live
in an institution?”
- Groucho Marx |
“Marriage is not about age; it's about finding the right
person.”
- Sophia Bush |
“When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're
sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.”
- Joseph Campbell |
“In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the
climate, the husband the landscape.”
- Gerald Brenan |
“Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about
marriage: the wife is in charge.”
- Bill Cosby |
“Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a
woman I don't like and give her a house.”
- Lewis Grizzard |
“Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut
afterwards.”
- Benjamin Franklin |
“When I get married, it'll be no secret.”
- Elvis Presley |
“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 |
“I enjoy being single, but I
loved being married.”
- Stephanie Mills |
“Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they
didn't they'd be married too.”
- H. L. Mencken |
“When you have a baby, love is automatic, when you get
married, love is earned.”
- Marie Osmond |
“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times,
always with the same person.”
- Mignon McLaughlin |
“Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.”
- Gilbert K. Chesterton |
“Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand
furniture.”
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr. |
“When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a
new car or a new wife.”
- Prince Philip |
