Some Famous Quotes

• If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.

• The most happy marriage I can picture would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

• Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

• Woman inspires us to great things, and prevents us from achieving them.

• The great question... which I have not been able to answer... is, "What does a woman want?

• Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

• Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

• Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

• You don't marry someone you can live with, you marry the person who you cannot live without.

• Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.

• The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

• There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

• Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

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

• For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe... Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

• "One man's folly is another man's wife."

• A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

• "Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly." -

• Marriage -a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters written in prose

• Marriage requires a person to prepare 4 types of "Rings": Engagement Ring Wedding Ring, Suffering, Enduring

• You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince

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

• Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings

• Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did

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

• To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world

• Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end

• Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they blossom when we love the ones we marry

• When you meet someone who can cook and do housework - don't hesitate a minute - marry him

• I was the best man at the wedding. If I'm the best man, why is she marrying him?

• Marriages are made in heaven. But, again, so are thunder, lightning, tornado and hail

• Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle

• Marriage -- as its veterans know well -- is the continuous process of getting used to things you hadn't expected

• A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence

• We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise

• In marriage, each partner is to be an encourager rather than a critic, a forgiver rather than a collector of hurts, an enabler rather than a reformer

• The cure for love is marriage, and the cure for marriage is love again

• Every man should get married some time; after all, happiness is not the only thing in life!

• It's not true that married men live longer than single men. It only seems longer

• Men have a better time than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier

• When a newly married couple smiles, everyone knows why. When a ten-year married couple smiles, everyone wonders why

• One advantage of marriage It seems to me Is that when you fall out of love with him Or he falls out of love with you It keeps you together until maybe you fall in again

• The more you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes

• "By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher."

• Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins.

• The middle years of marriage are the most crucial. In the early years, spouses want each other and in late years, they need each other

• Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others

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