“Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.” – Louis K. Anspacher
“Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation…” – Oscar Wilde
“Some women pick men to marry–and others pick them to pieces.” – Mae West
“Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they blossom when we love the ones we marry.” – Tom Mullen
“The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding” – Oscar Wilde
“God’s great cosmic joke on the human race was requiring that men and women live together in marriage” – Mark Twain
“To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you’re wrong, admit it; Whenever you’re right, shut up” – Ogden Nash
“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person” – Mignon McLaughlin
“I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They’ve experienced pain and bought jewelry.” – Rita Rudner
“More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.” – Doug Larson
“I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.” – Groucho Marx
“Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.” – Leonardo da Vinci
“The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It’s a choice you make / not …
“Marriage is not a simple love affair, it’s an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have …
“Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.” – G. K. Chesterton
“Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage” – Zig Ziglar
“Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. So each is inevitably disappointed.” – Albert Einstein
“Don’t marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can’t live without.” – Dr. James C. Dobson
“Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins.” – Lao Tzu
“The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.” – Oscar Wilde
“People who love only once in their lives are. . . shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the …
“Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Marriage is not a noun; it’s a verb. It isn’t something you get. It’s something you do. It’s the way you love your partner every …
“Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree” – Oscar Wilde
“To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must …
“They asked her (Ruth Graham) did she ever think about divorce and she said, ‘No, I’ve never thought of divorce in all these 35 years …
“If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.” – Michel de Montaigne