Quotes

Newlyweds become oldyweds, and oldyweds are the reasons that families work.
-Anonymous Author

Never get married in the morning, because you never know who you'll meet that night.
-Paul Hornung

Divorce: The past tense of marriage.
-Anonymous Author

All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.
-Raymond Hull

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
-Phyllis Diller

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

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

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

Love seems the swiftest but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.
-Mark Twain

A first-rate marriage is like a first-rate hotel: expensive, but worth it.
-Mignon McLaughlin

I don't like defining myself. I just am.
-Britney Spears

In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage.
-Robert Anderson

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years.
-Simone Signoret

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.
-H.L. Mencken

English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation.
-Anonymous Author

There is no such cozy combination as man and wife.
-Menander

In the opinion of the world, marriage ends all, as it does in a comedy. The truth is precisely the opposite: it begins all.
-Anne Sophie Swetchine

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

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

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

Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.
-Jean Rostand

Our wedding was many years ago. The celebration continues to this day.
-Gene Perret

One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.
-Judith Viorst

Marriage, n. A community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all two.
-Ambrose Bierce

Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate.
-Barnett R. Brickner

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

A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
-Paul Sweeney

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
-Benjamin Disraeli

In a time when nothing is more certain than change, the commitment of two people to one another has become difficult and rare. Yet, by its scarcity, the beauty and value of this exchange have only been enhanced.
-Robert Sexton

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

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

Three rings of marriage are the engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering.
-Anonymous Author

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.
-Isadora Duncan

Here's to matrimony, the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented!
-Heinrich Heine

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
-Katherine Hepburn

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
-George Bernard Shaw

A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
-Anne Taylor Fleming

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.
-Doug Larson

A dress that zips up the back will bring a husband and wife together.
-James H. Boren

The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through eternity.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
-Pliny the Younger, Letters

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

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

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
-Socrates

Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it.
-Friedrich Nietzsche

The reason for much matrimony is patrimony.
-Ogden Nash