Marriage sayings
There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.
Clint EastwoodI wasn't looking for another marriage. I had been married before. He is a nice man - a geologist, an Ernest Hemingway type. But Paul and I married because of convention.
Linda McCartneyA gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died; it was the triumph of hope over experience.
Samuel JohnsonA successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
Andre MauroisIn Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.
Rita RudnerA successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Mignon McLaughlinSuch 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 JohnsonMarriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
VoltaireThat 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.
Paul TournierAll 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.
Ann LandersA simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.
Anne Morrow LindberghMarriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.
Mae WestNever say that marriage has more of joy than pain.
EuripidesI 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.
Candice BergenA great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.
Dave MeurerMy wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked.
Sir Winston ChurchillThe most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeWhen you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
Joseph CampbellThe poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead.
Ann LandersWhat counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.
Leo TolstoyOne should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
Honore de BalzacLove in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.
Alphonse KarrA happy marriage is the world's best bargain.
O. A. BattistaA married man with a family will do anything for money.
Charles De TalleyrandIf marriage is your object,You'd better start loving your subject.
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