Famous Marriage Quotes in English with Images

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul- mate is the one you are actually married to.

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then.  You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation.  Survival was.

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Such is the common process of marriage.  A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another.  Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together.  They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

- Samuel Johnson Quotes

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

My toughest fight was with my first wife.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

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I know nothing about sex because I was always married.

I love being married.  It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

When I meet a man I ask myself, 'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy.  If you get a bad one, you'll became a philosopher.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

A successful marriage requires failing in love many times, always with the same person.

Always get married early in the morning.  That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.

Marriage.  It's like a cultural hand-rail.  It links folks to the past and guides them to the fature.

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If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together.  It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

We were happily married for eight mouths.  Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

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 principle of equal partnership.

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options.  That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

I Wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

I pay very little regard… to what any young person says on the subject of marriage.  If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.