marriage quotes

• A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short. (Andre Maurois) [marriage/conversation]
• A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day. (Andre Maurois) [marriage/day]
• Marriage and hanging go by destiny; matches are made in heaven. (Robert Burton) [marriage]
• Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him. (Marilyn Monroe) [marriage/love/marriage/love]
• That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds. (John Updike) [marriage/start]
• Marriage is the death of hope. (Woody Allen) [marriage/death]
• If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam. (Johnny Carson) [life/marriage/spam]
• There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear. (Thomas Chatterton) [time/marriage]
• Marriage is an adventure, like going to war. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [marriage/war]
• The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population. (Denis Diderot) [divorce/marriage/duties/help]
• Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. (Isadora Duncan) [marriage/contract]
• Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest. (George Eliot) [marriage]
• Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in? (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [marriage/question/wish/wish]
• His designs were strictly honorable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage. (Henry Fielding) [lady/fortune/marriage]
• Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards. (Benjamin Franklin) [eyes/marriage]
• Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. (Benjamin Franklin) [marriage/love/willpower/love]
• I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage. (Mahatma Gandhi) [marriage]
• Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [love/thing/marriage/thing]
• Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock. (Ernest Hemingway) [marriage/remember/marriage/]
• Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three. (Washington Irving) [marriage]
• When we of the so-called better classes are scared as men were never scared in history at material ugliness and hardship; when we put off marriage until our house can be artistic, and quake at the thought of having a child without a bank-account and doomed to manual labor, it is time for thinking men to protest against so unmanly and irreligious a state of opinion. (William James) [men/marriage/child/time]
• Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage. (Samuel Johnson) [marriage/state/marriage]
• Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures. (Samuel Johnson) [marriage]
• There is nothing so much seduces reason from vigilance as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman in marriage. (Samuel Johnson) [life/marriage]
• Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable. (Soren Kierkegaard) [marriage/connection/tradition/customs]
• Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset. (Ann Landers) [marriage]
• Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory. (Abraham Lincoln) [marriage]
• There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage. (Martin Luther) [more/company/marriage]
• A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day. (Andre Maurois) [marriage/day]
• A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises. (Andre Maurois) [marriage/nation]
• A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short. (Andre Maurois) [marriage/conversation]

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