Quotes and Sayings About Marriage
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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Husband, when you tell your wife to go for counseling alone (because you think going to see a counselor is a sign you have failed) is like having a car you love overheat and deciding it's not manly to take it to the mechanic. You can keep on driving it but eventually you will ruin the engine.
-- Adam Hamilton -
There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first.
-- Adela Rogers St. Johns -
Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.
-- Aeschylus -
I suggest that there is a splendid way out of the difficulty of marriage, and that is my way - stay out.
-- Agnes Macphail -
you can't be value free when it comes to marriage
-- Al Gore -
Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.
-- Alan King -
If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books.
-- Alan King -
Banks have a new image. Now you have 'a friend,' your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens?
-- Alan King -
Old married people look so much alike that they have the same number of hairs in their ears.
-- Albert Camus -
... unhappiness is like marriage. We believe we chose it, but then it is choosing us. That is how it is, we can do nothing about it.
-- Albert Camus -
Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.
-- Albert Einstein -
There are few who would not rather be taken in adultery than in provocation.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Marriage changes things because there's a lot more at stake. You can't get too toxic because you have to live together. No one can reach for the nuclear button too quickly.
-- Alec Baldwin -
Marriage with love is entering heaven with one's eyes shut, but marriage without love is entering hell with them open.
-- Alec-Tweedie -
All other goods by Fortune's hands are given; A wife is the peculiar gift of heaven.
-- Alexander Pope -
Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.
-- Alexander Pope -
They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
-- Alexander Pope -
It was Mrs. Campbell, for instance, who, on a celebrated occasion, threw her companion into a flurry by describing her recent marriage as "the deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-longue."
-- Alexander Woollcott -
The chains of marriage are so heavy that it takes two to bear them, sometimes three.
-- Alexandre Dumas-fils -
When I hear that a friend has fallen into matrimony, I feel the same sorrow as if I had heard of his lapsing into theism.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
I can think of no habit, kept up through the years, that binds a married couple more than that of reading good books together. Domestic problems and personal problems are for the time forgotten, and an intellectual intimacy is established that can be maintained in few other ways.
-- Alice Hegan Rice -
Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.
-- Alphonse Karr -
Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
A bad marriage is like an electrical thrilling machine: it makes you dance, but you can't let go.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom