Marriage Quotes

  • "Behind every great man there is a surprised woman." -- Maryon Pearson 
  •  "Before marriage a man will lay awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage he'll fall asleep before you have finished saying it." -- Helen Rowland  
  • "An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her." -- Agatha Christie 
  •  "Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her." -- Agatha Christie
  • "Marriage is the perfection of what love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson  
  • "Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters written in prose." -- Beverly Nichols 
  • "To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the wedding cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up." --Ogden Nash 
  • "Whatever souls are made of, his and mine are the same." -- Emily Bronte  
  • "The critical period in matrimony is breakfast-time." -- Sir Alan Patrick Herbet  
  • "Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose." -- F.M. Knowles  
  • "Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death." -- Anonymous  
  • "If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love." -- Michele de Montaigne  
  • "There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved." -- George Sand  
  • "Love me tender, love me sweet, never let me go." -- Elvis Presley  
  • "For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof; the work for which all other work is but preparation." --Rainer Maria Rilke  
  • "To love another person is to see the face of God." – Les Miserables  
  • "Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition." -- Alexander Smith  
  • "There is no remedy for love but to love more." -- Henry David Thoreau 
  • I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love. -- Henry Ward Beecher  
  • "You call it madness, but I call it love." -- Don Byas  
  • "A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. -- Ingrid Bergman 
  •  "He who is devoid of the power to forgive, is devoid of the power to love." -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  
  • "Music is love in search of a word." -- Anonymous  
  • "Life has taught us that love does not consist of gazing at each other, but looking outward in the same direction." -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery  
  • "Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up." -- Joseph Barth  
  • "A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person." -- Germaine Greer  
  • "This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess." -- Rainer Maria Rilke  
  • "Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes  
  • "Love is space and time measured by the heart." -- Marcel Proust (1871-1922)  
  • "You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love." -- Henry Drummond 
  •  "Where there is great love, there are always miracles." --Willa Cather