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Quotes About Marriage

In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage.
~ Robert Anderson
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.
~ Peter De Vries
If you want to marry wisely, marry your equal
~ Spanish proverb
They asked her (Ruth Graham) did she ever think about divorce and she said, 'No, I've never thought of divorce in all these 35 years of marriage, but,' she said, 'I did think of murder a few times
~ Billy Graham
Marriage is a great institution. No family should be without it.
~ Mae West
Any woman who still thinks marriage is a fifty-fifty proposition is only proving that she doesn't understand either men or percentages
~ Unknown
Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
~ William Somerset Maugham
There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.
~ Oscar Wilde
Get married, but never to a man who is home all day
~ George Bernard Shaw
All men should freely use those seven words which have the power to make any marriage run smoothly: You know dear, you may be right
~ Bill Cosby
That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle that the Vatican has overlooked
~ Bill Cosby
Marry in haste, and repent at leisure.
~ Hasidic Proverb
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
~ Michel de Montaigne
If we must lose wife or husband when we live to our highest right, we lose an unhappy marriage as well, and we gain ourselves. But if a marriage is born between two already self-discovered, what a lovely adventure begins, hurricanes and all.
~ Richard Bach
Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway.
~ Marvin Gaye
Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking.
~ Marvin Gaye
Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.
~ Harlan Miller
Do not choose your wife at a dance, but in the field among the harvesters
~ Czech Proverb
Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty
~ Helen Rowland
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...and that is a good thing for any man.
~ Socrates
Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
I know some good marriages - marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other
~ Erica Jong
To marry a woman who you love and who loves you is to lay a wager with her as to who will stop loving the other first
~ Albert Camus