Quotes and Sayings about Marriage

It's the way it works: Love plus time minus distance equals hate.

A happy marriage doesn't mean you have a perfect spouse or a perfect marriage. It simply means you've chosen to look beyond the imperfections in both.

Lucy, every marriage is a dance; complicated at times, lovely at times, most the time very uneventful. But with Mickey, there will be times when your dance will be on broken glass. There will be pain. And you will either flee that pain or hold tighter and dance through it to the next smooth place.

Ideally, couples need three lives; one for him, one for her, and one for them together.

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

Marriage is like a coffin and each kid is another nail.

Insurance is like marriage. You pay and pay, and never get anything back!

Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.

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 principles of equal partnership.

Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

The "no more surprises"-thing is the best part of being married.

In a good marriage each is the other's better half.

Marriage is like a coffin and each kid is another nail.

Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.

The man is the head, but the woman is the neck, and she can turn the head any way she wants.

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

Wedding rings - the world's smallest handcuffs.

To the three rings of marriage: the engagement ring, the wedding ring and the suffering.

According to the experts, marriage is like art. It requires great patience.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.

I have loved her even when I hated her... only married couples'll understand that one.

Rings make marriages,
And rings make chains aswell.

"Actually, you've fallen out of love with your husband. And yet, you are going to stay in the same house under the same roof for the sake of the child."
"But that's called marriage!"

My wife and I were happy for 20 years. Then we met.

Psychologists believe that emotional connection is the key to long-termin marital success, not physical attraction.

He hasn't found happiness. He's found marriage, the very opposite of happiness.

Marriage. It's the ultimate happiness for a girl.

War is war, but killing a man at a wedding... horrid. As if men need more reasons to fear marriage.

The truth is that: We are unhappy married and unmarried we're unhappy. In marriage you must first endure, pity and then embrace.

Santanico Pandemonium : "Welcome to slavery."
Seth : "No, thanks. I've already had a wife."

Life is short, but marriage is long, so drink up, and it will make it go a hell of a lot faster.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

Marriage is about the most expensive way for the average man to get laundry done.

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

To keep your marriage brimming, whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.

I think long-lasting, healthy relationships are more important than the idea of marriage. At the root of every successful marriage is a strong partnership.

When I'm weak, you can be strong; when I'm strong, you can be weak. That's what I believe marriage is.

I think one reason for a successful marriage is laughter. I think laughter gets you through the rough moments in a marriage.

In terms of my marriage, you know, falling in love with my husband was by far the best thing that's ever happened to me.

They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.

Marriage is like a game of chess. Except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Girlfriend is such a stupid word. I couldn't stand calling her that. So, we had to get married, so I could call her "wife".

Finding someone you love and who loves you back is a wonderful, wonderful feeling. But finding a true soul mate is an even better feeling. A soul mate is someone who understands you like no other, loves you like no other, will be there for you forever, no matter what. They say that nothing lasts forever, but I am a firm believer in the fact that for some, love lives on even after we're gone.

It takes much more courage to be in love than it does for war.

I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.

To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems!