Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there. Andrew Jackson
To marry a second time represents the triumph of hope over experience. Samuel Johnson
The true index of a man’s character is the health of his wife. Cyril Connolly
I have always considered marriage as the most interesting event of one’s life, the foundation of happiness or misery. George Washington
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war. G K Chesterton
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. Isadora Duncan
Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman. Herbert Spencer
The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so. Thornton Wilder
Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them. Ogden Nash
Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it. Helen Rowland
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage Martin Luther.
To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties. Arthur Schopenhauer
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them. Sydney Smith
When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one. Helen Rowland
A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it. Zsa Zsa Gabor
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. Alan Patrick Herbert
I married beneath me. All women do. Lady Nancy Astor
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. Honore de Balzac
He was happily married – but his wife wasn’t. Victor Borge
Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery. Erma Bombeck
Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit. Billy Connolly
Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it. Boris Pasternak
I was married for 30 years. Isn’t that enough? I’ve had my share of dirty underwear on the floor. Martha Stewart
Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred. William Orville Douglas
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. Jane Austen
A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love. Pearl S Buck
We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations – we’re doing everything we can to keep our marriage together. Rodney Dangerfield
One was never married, and that’s his hell; another is, and that’s his plague. Robert Burton
The joys of marriage are the heaven on earth,
Life’s paradise, great princess, the soul’s quiet,
Sinews of concord, earthly immortality,
Eternity of pleasures.
John Ford
Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family – a domestic church. Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla)
People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked. Paul Newman
In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk. Rita Rudner
I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. Rita Rudner
This is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible beings who do not run away from life. Paul Tournier
One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of love with him, or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you maybe fall in again. Judith Viorst
My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never. Jack Benny
A married guy is responsible for everything, no matter what. Women, thanks to their having been oppressed all these years, are blameless, free as birds, and all the dirt they do is the result of premenstrual syndrome or postmenstrual stress or menopause or emotional disempowerment by their fathers or low expectations by their teachers or latent unspoken sexual harassment in the workplace, or some other airy excuse. The guy alone is responsible for every day of marriage that is less than marvelous and meaningful. Garrison Keillor
For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end. Catherine Zeta Jones
Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn’t, they’d be married too. H L Mencken
The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married. Cyril Connolly
Marriage is a desperate thing. John Selden
Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. Benjamin Franklin
A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished. Zsa Zsa Gabor
A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him. Elbert G Hubbard
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day. Andre Maurois
A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short. Andre Maurois
The heart of marriage is memories; and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns, then your marriage is a gift from the gods. Bill Cosby
The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time. A P Herbert
Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world. Erica Jong
It is a maxim that man and wife should never have it in their power to hang one another. George Farquhar
The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character. Peter de Vries
More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse. Doug Larson
There are four stages in a marriage. First there’s the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce. Norman Mailer
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. Mignon McLaughlin
It was a perfect marriage. She didn’t want to and he couldn’t. Spike Milligan
In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way. Iris Murdoch