Marriage Quotes

• The secret to having a good marriage is to understand that marriage must be total, it must be permanent, and it must be equal.- Frank Pittman

• A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.- Mignon McLaughlin

• Marriage, ultimately, is the practice of becoming passionate friends.- Harville Hendrix

• As for his secret to staying married: “My wife tells me that if I ever decide to leave, she is coming with me.”  Jon BonJovi

• There is nothing more admirable than two people who see eye-to-eye keeping house as man and wife, confounding their enemies, and delighting their friends.- Homer, 9th century BC

• To get the full value of joy, you must have someone to divide it with- Mark Twain

• One of the nicest things you can say to your partner, “If I had it to do over again, I’d choose you. Again.”- Unknowns

• We heard this at a wedding: ‘If you are going to argue, argue naked.’ – Peg and Harry Williams, Nashville, TN

• When there is love in a marriage, there is harmony in the home; when there is harmony in the home, there is contentment in the community; when there is contentment in the community, there is prosperity in the nation; when there is prosperity in the nation, there is peace in the world.- Chinese proverb frequently quoted by David and Vera Mace

• Isn’t it time some real financial support was made available for the growth anddevelopment of truly healthy and happy marriages? – David Mace, 1982

• You need only do three things in this country to avoid poverty – finish high school, marry before having a child, and marry after the age of 20. Only 8 percent of the families who do this are poor; 79 percent of those who fail to do this are poor.- William Galston, Clinton White House

• You can’t be value free when it comes to marriage.- Al Gore, June, 2001

• I didn’t marry you because you were perfect. I didn’t even marry you because I loved you. I married you because you gave me a promise. That promise made up for your faults. And the promise I gave you made up for mine. Two imperfect people got married and it was the promise that made the marriage. And when our children were growing up, it wasn’t a house that protected them; and it wasn’t our love that protected them – it was that promise. Thornton Wilder

• When asked his secret of love, being married fifty-four years to the same person, he said, “Ruth and I are happily incompatible.”- Billy Graham

• We just say: the divorce didn’t work out. -Joe, who remarried his wife after they divorced

• Marriage, like a submarine, is only safe if you get all the way inside.- Frank Pittman

• People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.- Paul Newman

• I think a man and a woman should choose each other for life, for the simple reason that a long life with all its accidents is barely enough time for a man and a woman to understand each other and. . . to understand – is to love.”- William Butler Yeats

• Even with all its problems, I will support marriage as an institution until something better comes along.- David Blankenhorn,

• Marriage is a public good, not just a private relationship. We have a public stake in healthy marriages and two-parent families. Our society suffers with the collapse of the relationship of the couple who brings a child into the world.- Bill Doherty

• The First Bond of Society is Marriage.- Cicero

• There is a saying in social research, ‘A mother is a mother all of your life,but a father is a father only when he has a wife,’ – Leah Ward Sears, chief justice of the Georgia Supreme Court

Marriage orients men and women toward the future, asking them not just to commit to each other but to plan, to earn, to save, and to devote themselves to advancing their children’s prospects.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan

• It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

• Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up. – Joseph Barth

• The first duty of love is to listen.- Paul Tillich

• My dad told me on the day of my wedding, ‘Never go in a place that you wouldn’t take your wife.’David Gibbs, Mt. Juliet, TN, married 51 years

• Married life teaches one invaluable lesson: to think of things far enough ahead not to say them. – Jefferson Machamer

• I have always considered marriage as the most interesting event of one’s life, the foundation of happiness or misery. – George Washington
• A man doesn’t know what happiness is until he’s married. By then it’s too late. Frank Sinatra

• I always compare marriage to communism. They’re both institutions that don’t conform to human nature, so you’re going to end up with lying and hypocrisy.- Bill Maher

When a man marries a woman, they become one–the trouble starts when they try to decide which one.Croft M. Pentz

• Marriage is like life in this – that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses. Robert Louis Stevenson

• Though women are angels, yet wedlock’s the devil.- Lord Byron

• Marriage has some thorns, but celibacy has no roses. – Vernon K.Mclellan

• It’s terribly hard to be married … harder than anything else. I think you have to be an angel.- August Stringberg

• Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious. Both are disappointed. Oscar Wilder

• Marriage is a land mine. A really intimate land mine. Adultery to kitchen fires. Never a dull [moment]. Nora Roberts

• Marriage is commonly a meal wherein the soup is better than the desert. Austin O’Malley

• Marriage is the agreement to let a family happen. Betty Jane Wylie

• Never marry but for love; but see that thou lov’st what is lovely. Willian Penn

• Marriage does not unite two people; it entangles them. Abraham Miller

• Marriage is more than just finding a man that you like the looks of or that you don’t mind being touched by. Marriage is for a mighty long time and unless you figure it that way, there’s no sense in going into it to begin with. Marriage calls for a lot of thought.- Cheyenne Bodie

What do you think engagement rings are? Just proof that a man can pay for his bride… Marriage is not romance. It’s a contract with the state. It’s an investment in your future. I’m not making it about money, it just is. Chloe Daniels

• A marriage is like a salad: the man has to know how to keep his tomatoes on the top. J. R. Ewing

• You want to know the advantages of marriage? Fine… There’s… Uh… OK! Here! Got it! You know when you fall asleep and you stop breathing? When you’re married, there’s always somebody there to nudge you back to life… Ray Barone

• Marriage is a very complicated machine. When it breaks down, you can’t fix it with one screw. Yvonne

• We’re talking about marriage, it’s a bottomless well. True “south” doesn’t exist when it comes to marriage. Tommy Gavin

• Ain’t much difference between kidnapping and marriage. You get snatched from your parents. But in marriage, nobody offers a reward. Pop Tolliver

Marriage is a beautiful mistake which two people make together. Mariette Colet

• Marriage isn’t just an act of love, it’s an act of will. Marjorie Dubois