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Quotes About Relationships

People marry for a variety of reasons and with varying results. But to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.
~ James Branch Cabell
I talk marriage; they talk weddings!
~ Robert Farrar Capon
I doubt if there is one married person on earth who can be objective about divorce. It is always a threat, admittedly or not, and such a dire threat that it is almost a dirty word.
~ Unknown
So they were married-to be the more together- And found they were never again so much together, Divided by the morning tea, By the evening paper, By children and tradesmen's bills
~ Louis MacNeice
Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them.
~ Ogden Nash
A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it
~ Israel Zangwill
It was so cold I almost got married
~ Unknown
Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage
~ Benjamin Franklin
Whoever said Marriage is a 50-50 proposition laid the foundation for more divorce fees than any other short sentence in our language.
~ Unknown
Marriage is a custom brought about by women who then proceed to live off men and destroy them, completely enveloping the man in a destructive cocoon or eating him away like a poisonous fungus on a tree
~ Richard Harris
Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result of being that they get on each other's nerves and regularly erupt into vicious emotional shouting.
~ Dave Barry
Marriage, if truth be told (of this be sure), An evil is - but one we must endure
~ Menander of Athens
This is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible beings who do not run away from life
~ Paul Tournier
Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.
~ Thomas Love Peacock
I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.
~ Gloria Swanson
I'm probably not going to get married unless I live with somebody for 10 or 20 years. But these people (Romeo and Juliet) took a chance and they did it. We don't have the balls that Romeo did.
~ Leonardo DiCaprio
Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.
~ Joseph Priestley
I've been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out.
~ Lee Grant
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
~ Zsa Zsa Gabor
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
~ George Bernard Shaw
There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead.
~ Greta Garbo
If you marry a man who cheats on his wife, you'll be married to a man who cheats on his wife.
~ Ann Landers
It seemed to me that the desire to get married - which, I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again
~ Nora Ephron
If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother.
~ Sam Levenson