Marriage Quotes

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

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.”
Winston Churchill

I didn't marry you because you were perfect. I didn't even marry you because I loved you. I married you because you gave me a promise. That promise made up for your faults. And the promise I gave you made up for mine. Two imperfect people got married and it was the promise that made the marriage. And when our children were growing up, it wasn't a house that protected them; and it wasn't our love that protected them - it was that promise.
Thornton Wilder

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

Get Married
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What a concept.
The Snipe

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

Love is what you've been through with somebody.
James Thurber

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
Phyllis Diller

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

When asked his secret of love, being married fifty-four years to the same person, he said, "Ruth and I are happily incompatible."
Billy Graham

Love is a flower which turns into fruit at marriage.
Proverb

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

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

I think a man and a woman should choose each other for life, for the simple reason that a long life with all its accidents is barely enough time for a man and a woman to understand each other and. . . to understand - is to love."
William Butler Yeats

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

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.
Oscar Wilde

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
Lord Byron

Love seems the swiftest but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.
Mark Twain

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

Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without.
Dr. James C. Dobson

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in shade.
Leo Buscaglia

The highest happiness on earth is marriage.
William Lyon Phelps

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

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

The reason for much matrimony is patrimony.
Ogden Nash