Marriage quotes

Adams Henry Brooks 1838-1918

The Education of Henry Adams

Accident counts for much in companionship as in marriage.

Anonymous

If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.

Anonymous

(pamphlet from Chinese Family Planning Centre)

Marriage is not a finished affair. No matter to what age you live, love must be continuously consolidated. Being considerate, thoughtful and respectful without ulterior motives is the key to a satisfactory marriage.

Auden W.H. 1907-1973

Any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting and significant than any romance, however pasionate.

Austen Jane 1775-1817

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

Bagehot Walter 1826-1877

The English Constitution

Women - one half of the human race at least-care fifty times more for a marriage than a ministry.

Barth Joseph

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Brenan Gerald 1894-1987

Thoughts in a Dry Season

In a happy marriage, it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.

Byron Lord 1788-1824

Don Juan

´Tis melancholy, and a fearful sign
Of human frailty, folly, also crime,
That love and marriage rarely can combine,
Although they both are born in the same clime;
Marriage from love, like vinegar from wine -
A sad, sour, sober beverage - by time
Is sharpened from its high celestial flavour,
Down to a very homely household savour.

Coleridge Samuel Taylor 1772-1834

The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

Corey Professor Irwin

Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.

Daley Cass

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

De Vries Peter 1910-1993

Who of us in mature enough for offspring before the offspringthemselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

Diana Princess of Wales 1961-1997

There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.

Emerson RalpWaldo 1803-1882

Representative Men

Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out; and such as are out wish to get in.

Farquhar George 1678-1707

The Recruiting Officer

Hanging and marriage, you know, go by Destiny.

Fielding Henry 1707-1754

His designs were strictly honourable, as the phrase is: that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.

Franklin Benjamin 1706-1790

Poor Richard's Almanac

Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Gay John 1685-1732

The Beggar's Opera

I am ready, my dear Lucy, to give you satisfaction - if you think there is any in marriage?

Gibbons Stella 1902-1989

Cold Comfort Farm

By god, D.H. Lawrence was right when he had said there must be a dumb, dark, dull, bitter belly-tension between a man and a woman, and how else could this be achieved save in the long monotony of marriage?

Goethe Johann von 1749-1832

Love is the ideal thing, marriage the real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

Goldsmith Sir James 1933-1997

The custom is that if you divorce you abandon your wife. That is pure moral turpitude. I do not agree with it and I never have. For me, marriage is having children, not a piece of paper.

Graham James 1612-1650

Love is blind and marriage is the institution of the blind.

Hoffer Eric 1902-1983

There is a radicalism in all getting, and a conservatism in all keeping. Lovemaking is radical, while marriage is conservative.

Johnson Samuel 1709-1784

Rasselas

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

Jung Carl 1875-1961

Seldom, or perhaps never, does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises; there is no coming to consciousness without pain.

Keble John 1792-1866

„Holy Matrimony"

The voice that breathed o'er Eden,
That earliest weddind-day,
The primal marriage blessing,
It hath not passed away.

Key Ellen 1849-1926

The Morality of Women and Other Essays

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Lincoln Abraham 1809-1865

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell; it is simply purgatory.

Lyly John c.1554-1606

Marriage are made in heaven and consummated on earth.

Martin Dean 1917-1995

Marriage is not a word but a sentence.

Marx Groucho 1895-1977

The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his chequebook open.

Marx Groucho 1895-1977

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Miller Harlan

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Mitchell Langdon

Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins.

Moliére 1622-1673

Les Femmes savantes

Reading and marriage don't go well together.

Montaigne Michel de 1533-1592

Essays

It [marriage] is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

Musselman M.M.

One of the best things about marriage is that it gets young people to bed at a decent hour.

Needham Richard J.

Love is a fever which marriage puts to bed and cures.

Norris Kathleen

Marriage; a job. Happiness or unhappiness has nothing to do with it.

Pasternak Boris 1890-1960

Doctor Zhivago

Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.

Peacock Thomas Love 1785-1866

Melincourt

Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond.

Pollock Channing

Marriage is a great institution, and no family should be without it.

Rowland Helen 1875-1950

The Wit of Women

Before marriage, a man will lie awake thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.

Ruskin John 1819-1900

It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit; divorced from it they remain barren.

Samuel Lord 1870-1963

Book of Quotations

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Selden John 1584-1654

Table Talk „Marriage"

Marriage is nothing but a civil contract.

Shakespeare William 1564-1616

Othello

O curse of marriage!
That we can call these delicate creatures ours,
And not their appetites. I had rather be a toad,
And live upon the vapour of a dungeon,
Than keep a corner in the thing I love
For others' uses.

Shakespeare William 1564-1616

Twelfth Night

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

Shakespeare William 1564-1616

Sonnet 116

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O,no! it is an ever-fixèd mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken.

Shaw George Bernard 1856-1950

Man and Superman „Maxims: Marriage"