Marriage Quotes

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for granted relationship.
- Iris Murdoch

A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I figure that the degree of difficulty in combining two lives ranks somewhere between rerouting a hurricane and finding a parking place in downtown Manhattan.
- Claire Cloninger

Love is a flower which turns into fruit at marriage.
- Finnish Proverb

Valentine's Day is when a lot of married men are reminded what a poor shot Cupid really is.
- Anonymous Author

Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.
- Beverley Nichols

Matrimony is a process by which a grocer acquired an account the florist had.
- Francis Rodman

If two stand shoulder to shoulder against the gods,Happy together, the gods themselves are helplessAgainst them while they stand so.
- Maxwell Anderson

A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
- Somerset Maugham

If you made a list of the reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.
- Mignon McLaughlin