Marriage Quotes: Inspiring Words on Love and Commitment

"There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place"

Helen Gahagan, Actress

"Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?"

Groucho Marx, Comedian

"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person"

Mignon McLaughlin, Journalist

"The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop"

John Updike, Novelist

"Marriage is the death of hope"

Woody Allen, Director

"Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory"

Abraham Lincoln, President

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

Thornton Wilder, Writer

"I think the Mother is gradually revealing itself to me and taking over. But it is not the Mother alone. It is the Mother and the Father, the male and the female, sort of gradually having their marriage"

Bede Griffiths, Clergyman

"Marriage is an adventure, like going to war"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

"Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes"

J.B. Priestley, Writer

"As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent"

Socrates, Philosopher

"There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them"

C. S. Lewis, Author

"The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day, but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife"

Barbara de Angelis, Writer

"Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day"

Barbara de Angelis, Writer

"An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know"

Bette Davis, Actress

"Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night"

St. Jerome, Saint

"No person connected with me by blood or marriage will be appointed to office"

Rutherford B. Hayes, President

"A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one"

Queen Victoria, Royalty

"All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership"

Ann Landers, Journalist

"Marriage is overdone. As long as there are people, people are going to find it interesting"

Augusten Burroughs, Writer

"I think it's best if there's an amendment that goes on the ballot where the people can weigh in. Every time this issue has gone on the ballot, the people have voted to retain the traditional definition of marriage as recently as California in 2008"

Michele Bachmann, Politician

"When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient"

Voltaire, Writer

"Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce"

Voltaire, Writer

"Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation"

Mark Twain, Author

"Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"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, Dramatist

"Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage"

Sydney J. Harris, Journalist

"Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

"Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love"

Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher

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