Quotes about marriage

"When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part."

Shaw, George Bernard on marriage
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"'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion."

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley on marriage   

"Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. That is what makes a marriage last --more than passion or even sex!"

Signoret, Simone on marriage   

"All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner."

Skelton, Red on marriage   

"If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions."

Smalley, Gary on marriage
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"Marrying into money was not a good thing for me."

Smith, Anna Nicole on marriage   

"It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them."

Smith, Sydney on marriage   

"Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them."

Smith, Sydney on marriage   

"By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher."

Socrates on marriage
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"The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy"

Sondheim, Stephen on marriage   

"Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman."

Spencer, Herbert on marriage   

"The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life."

Steele, Sir Richard on marriage   

"Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on marriage
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"Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on marriage
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"Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him."

Stimson, Henry Lewis on marriage   

"We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are."

Stoddard, Richard Henry on marriage   

"Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing."

Stopes, Marie Carmichael on marriage   

"A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou."

Storr, Anthony on marriage
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"Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?"

Streisand, Barbara on marriage
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"Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first."

Sunday, Billy on marriage
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"Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener."

Thomason, Pauline on marriage
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"Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: The one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it."

Twain, Mark on marriage
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"Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married."

Unknown, Source on marriage   

"Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?"

Unknown, Source on marriage   

"A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it."

Unknown, Source on marriage   

"A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day."

Unknown, Source on marriage
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"Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings."

Unknown, Source on marriage   

"Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot."

Unknown, Source on marriage
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"Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it."

Unknown, Source on marriage   

"Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way."

Unknown, Source on marriage   

"He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job."

Unknown, Source on marriage   

"If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers."

Unknown, Source on marriage   

"Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases."

Unknown, Source on marriage   

"Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering."

Unknown, Source on marriage
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"The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage."

Unknown, Source on marriage   

"No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes."

Unknown, Source on marriage   

"The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him."

Unknown, Source on marriage   

"Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence."

Unknown, Source on marriage   

"One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage."

Unknown, Source on marriage   

"Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner."

Updike, John on marriage