Marriage Quotes

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

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

When I meet a man I ask myself, 'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.

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

No man should have a secret from his wife; she invariably finds out.

A man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.

She is not perfect. You are not perfect. The question is whether or not you are perfect for each other.