Marriage Quotes And Sayings

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“how lacking in intuition men could be in persuading themselves that mending some stranger’s socks, and attending to his comfort, could content a woman…”
– Daphne du Maurier

“A great marriage is not when the ‘perfect couple’ comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.”
– Dave Meurer

“Marriage is like a well-built porch. If one of the two posts leans too much, the porch collapses. So each must be strong enough to stand on its own.”
– Deb Caletti

“A good marriage is good because one or both of them have learned to overlook the other’s faults, to love the other as they are and to not attempt to change them or bring them to repentance.”
– Debi Pearl

“a real partnership in which all parties help all others to be more fully themselves”
– Derrick Jensen

“Every wedding must be an occasion of joy that human beings can do such great things, that they have been given such immense freedom and power to take the helm in their life’s journey…”
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity.”
– Dorothy L. Sayers

“More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.”
– Doug Larson

“A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.”
– Eddie Cantor

“Never get married in college; it’s hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you’ve already made one mistake.”
– Elbert Hubbard

“Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.”
– Elizabeth Peters

“Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.”
– Ellen Key

“On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable.”
– Emma Goldman

“Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery.”
– Erma Bombeck

“It’s not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.”
– Euripides

“Marriage is the gold standard of all relationships. It’s the currency by which everything is valued.”
– Frank Delaney

“Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.”
– Franz Schubert

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“Many married women who have deliberately spurned the “hour” of childbearing are unhappy and frustrated. They never discovered the joys of marriage because they refused to surrender to the obligation of their state. In saving themselves, they lost themselves!”
– Fulton J. Sheen

“Find a woman who makes you feel more alive. She won’t make life perfect but she’ll make it infinitely more interesting. And then love her with all that’s in you.”
– Gayle G. Roper

“Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can’t sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can’t sleep with the window open.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can’t sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can’t sleep with the window open.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.”
– George Eliot

“Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.”
– Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?”
– Groucho Marx

“Maybe love, unfathomable love, was too much for people, so they had traded it for something easier.”
– Gwenn Wright

“Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn’t they’d be married too.”
– H. L. Mencken

“Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.”
– H. L. Mencken

“Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?”
– H.L. Mencken

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