Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.



A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.



A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude.



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?



I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.



The goal in marriage is not to think alike, but to think together.



Marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.



Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. That is what makes a marriage last --more than passion or even sex!



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.



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



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.



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.



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.



"Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway. "



"Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature. "



"Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed. "



"Inertia accounts for two-thirds of marriages. But love accounts for the other third."



"A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it. "



"A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came back with another." "



"Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves. "



"All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult. "



"He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job. "



"Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want, then when you see what the other fellow has, you wish you had ordered that."--



"It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man. "



"Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter. "



"Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. "



"Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... "



"Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like what you are getting. "



"Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. "



"Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings. "



"Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy. "



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



"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. "



"Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success."--



"My husband and I didn't sign a pre-nuptial agreement. We signed a mutual suicide pact."--


"Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. "



"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. "



"Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery."--


"I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up. "



"All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage."--



"In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved. "



"People marry through a variety of other reasons, and with varying results; but to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy. "



"When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship. "



"When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity. "



"If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam. "



"If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry. "



"Marriage is an adventure, like going to war. "



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


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



"I never married because I have three pets at home that answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog that growls every morning, a parrot that swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night. "--



"I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again. "



"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. "



"My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met. "--



"I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year. "



"Marriage is an institution and that's where a couple finish up. "--


"Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness. "



"Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight."--



I have always considered marriage as the most interesting event of one's life, the foundation of happiness or misery.


Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.


Marriage is for woman the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.



Getting married is like permanently grafting your hand to the cookie jar. No matter how sweet those cookies may taste, you can't help but wonder what would have happened if you'd chosen some other dessert--brownies, for instance ... or frozen yogurt ... or maybe chocolate strudel.


Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State- and Church-begotten weed, marriage?


Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.


To make a happy fire-side clime
To weans and wife,
That's the true pathos and sublime
Of human life.


Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart.


Those marriages generally abound most with love and constancy that are preceded by a long courtship.


A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.


A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then it's too late.


Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.


Marriage, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.


Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?


I always compare marriage to communism. They're both institutions that don't conform to human nature, so you're going to end up with lying and hypocrisy.


I never did, nor do I believe I ever shall, give advice to a woman who is setting out on a matrimonial voyage; first, because I never could advise one to marry without her own consent; and, secondly, I know it is to no purpose to advise her to refrain when she has obtained it. A woman very rarely asks an opinion or requires advice on such an occasion, till her resolution is formed; and then it is with the hope and expectation of obtaining a sanction, not that she means to be governed by your disapprobation, that she applies.


I'm never going to get married again. Three strikes you're out. I think if I would try to get married again in California I have to go to prison don't I? I think you only get three.



The present relationship existing between husband and wife, where one claims a command over the actions of the other, is nothing more than a remnant of the old leaven of slavery. It is necessarily destructive of refined love; for how can a man continue to regard as his type of the ideal a being whom he has, be denying an equality of privilege with himself, degraded to something below himself?



If men were wise they would see that the affection that God has implanted in us is amply sufficient, when not weakened by artificial aid, to ensure permanence of union; and if they would have more faith in this all would go well. To tie together by human law what God has tied together by passion, is about as wise as it would be to chain the moon to the earth lest the natural attraction existing between them should not be sufficient to prevent them flying asunder.



Courtship to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull Play.



Marriage is like life in this - that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses.



Hail wedded love, mysterious law, true source
Of human offspring, sole propriety,
In Paradise of all things common else.



It's terribly hard to be married ... harder than anything else. I think you have to be an angel.



Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious. Both are disappointed.



The sincerest love is the love of food.



Arguments are unsafe with wives, because they examine them; but they do not examine compliments. One can pass upon a wife a compliment that is three-fourths base metal; she will not even bite it to see if it is good; all she notices is the size of it, not the quality.