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Quotes About Marriage

'Tis melancholy, and a fearful sign Of human frailty, folly, also crime, That love and marriage rarely can combine, Although they both are born in the same clime; Marriage from love, like vinegar from wine - A sad, sour, sober beverage - by time Is s
~ Lord Byron
There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.
~ Clint Eastwood
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'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
I've been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out.
~ Lee Grant
A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
~ John Steinbeck
Arthur Miller wouldn't have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
~ Zsa Zsa Gabor
When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place
~ Helen Gahagan Douglas
People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.
~ Paul Newman
In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.
~ Earl Warren
When a man makes a woman his wife, it's the highest compliment he can pay her, and it's usually the last.
~ Helen Rowland
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.
~ Elbert Hubbard
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
It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
~ Honore de Balzac
If you marry a man who cheats on his wife, you'll be married to a man who cheats on his wife.
~ Ann Landers
Marriage for her was to be a condition of bondage, maternity a condition of suffering and anguish, and in silence and subjection, she was to play the role of a dependent on man's bounty for all her material wants, and for all the information she mig
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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
The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother.
~ Sam Levenson