Quotes About Marriage

Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.

Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.

It was a perfect marriage. She didn't want to and he couldn't.

Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes in between them.

Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love

Marriage is like a fort, those who are in want out, those who are out want in.

The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last.

Marriage is not just spiritual communion and passionate embraces; marriage is also three meals a day, sharing the workload and remembering to carry out the trash

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.

Most women have a good deal of pity for some other woman's husband

Success in marriage is much more than finding the right person; it is a matter of being the right person

I am marrying her because I love her.

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.

Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

The ritual of marriage is not simply a social event; it is a crossing of threads in the fabric of fate. Many strands bring the couple and their families together and spin their lives into a fabric that is woven on their children.

Take care of him. And make him feel important. And if you can do that, you'll have a happy and wonderful marriage. Like two out of every ten couples.

Marriage is like a beleaguered fortress: those who are outside want to get in, and those inside want to get out

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.

The heart of marriage is memories; and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns, then your marriage is a gift from the gods.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.