Marriage Quotes

• 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.

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

• Don't marry a man to reform him - that's what reform schools are for.

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

• Honeymoon: a short period of doting between dating and debating.

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

• I never knew what real happiness was until I got married, and by then it was too late.

• I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back.

• Ah, yes, divorce...from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet.

• I'm not upset about my divorce. I'm only upset I'm not a widow.

• Whenever you want to marry someone, go have lunch with his ex-wife.

• The whole purpose of a husband and wife is that when hard times knock at the door you should be able to embrace each other.

• Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

• It is not the lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

• My toughest fight was with my first wife.

• Ultimately the bond of all companionship, wheather in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.

• Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

• My wife is as handsome as when she was a girl, and I...fell in love with her; and what is more, I have never fallen out.

• Remember if you 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.

• Remember if you 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.

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