"Famous Quotes By Topic"
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
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day. Andre Maurois (1885 - 1967)
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 principle of equal partnership. Ann Landers (1918 - 2002)
A 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 Lindbergh
I 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 Bergen
All marriages are mixed marriages. Chantal Saperstein
There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again. Famous quotes, Clint Eastwood
A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences. Dave Meurer, "Daze of Our Wives"
Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future. Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Our Wedding, 1992
I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie. Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)
Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife. Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Antigone
Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain. Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Alcestis, 438 B.C.
One man's folly is another man's wife. Helen Rowland (1876 - 1950)
Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to. J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973), Letter to Michael Tolkien, March 1941
I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person. Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state. Kathleen Norris
If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it. Lawana Blackwell, The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, 1998
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet. Mae West (1892 - 1980)
Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day. Mickey Rooney
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. Mignon McLaughlin
My toughest fight was with my first wife. Muhammad Ali
We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years. Nick Faldo
If you would marry suitably, marry your equal. Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD)
That 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 Tournier
A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love. Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973)
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
In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk. Rita Rudner
When I meet a man I ask myself, 'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?' Rita Rudner
Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was. Robin Green, Northern Exposure, Burning Down the House, 1992
Such 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 Johnson (1709 - 1784), Rasselas
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