Marriage Quotes
Marriage. Marriage can be the most beautiful thing in the world. Two souls becoming one, their love for each other being allowed to reach new heights as they embark on a new adventure together, the adventure of life. Either that... or you could end up with Dante's nine levels of hell... ;-p These marriage quotes explore these extremes and everything in between, enjoy!
Marriage Quotes"Marriage--a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters written in prose."
"Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too."
"A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendships, all the enjoyment of sense and reason - and indeed all the sweets of life."
“I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.”
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“My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.”
"I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make my marriage vows mean what they say. I show up. I listen. I try to laugh."
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"I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her."
"When you make a sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship."
"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person."
"There is nothing half so sweet in life
As love's young dream."
“Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?”
"Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house."
"Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner."
“All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.”
"To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up."
"There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends."
"When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her."
"Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat."
"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."
"Love: a temporary insanity, curable by marriage."
"If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam."
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"Marriage is one of the few institutions that allow a man to do as his wife pleases."
“Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.”
"Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination."
"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."
"In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice that still continues."
"Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation."
"The Three Ages of Marriage: Twenty is when you watch the TV after. Forty is when you watch the TV during. Sixty is when you watch the TV instead."
"It is not uncommon for slight acquaintances to get married, but a couple really have to know each other to get divorced."
"Our wedding was many years ago. The celebration continues to this day."
"Men think monogamy is something you make dining tables out of."
“Three rings of marriage are the engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering.”
"I've been in love with the same woman for 49 years. If my wife every finds out, she'll kill me!"
"For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end."
I hope you enjoyed this collection of marriage quotes. I think they exhibited the ups and down of the institution. May you NOT find yourself in one of the nine levels of Dante's hell! ;-p
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