Marriage and Loving Quotes

"This day I will marry my friend, the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love."

~Anonymous~

Quote for Wedding

"What is there in the vale of life
Half so delightful as a wife,
When friendship, love and peace combine
To stamp the marriage bond divine?"

~William Cowper
"A happy man marries the girl he loves; a happier man loves the girl he
marries." - anonymous quote
I think men who have a pierced ear are better
prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.

- Rita Rudner

"A woman might as well propose: her husband will claim she did." - Edgar Watson Howe

"It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination." - Samuel Johnson
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
- Michel de Montaigne

There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.
- Clint Eastwood

"No man is truly married until he understands every word his wife is NOT saying." - unknown quote

"We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities." - Jacques Maritain

"I should like to see any kind of a man, distinguishable from a gorilla, that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

"Marriage is one of the few institutions that allow a man to do as his wife pleases." - Milton Berle

"I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry." - Rita Rudner

"I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's eighth husband on her wedding night: I know what I'm supposed to do...I just have to figure out a way to make it interesting." - many attributions for this quote

"Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures."
Samuel Johnson

"Marriage is the only war where you sleep with the enemy."
- Gary Busey

Marriage (n) - A great way to destroy a good sex life.
- Unknown quote from a married man.

A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' come together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.
- Dave Meurer

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.
- Euripedes Antigone

"An old man who marries a young wife grows younger - but she grows older." - folk saying

"It is not uncommon for slight acquaintances to get married, but a couple really have to know each other to get divorced." - anonymous quote

"Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant." - John Updike

"Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing." - Goethe

"The people people have for friends
Your common sense appall
But the people people marry
Are the queerest folk of all."
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

"Do not marry a man to reform him. That is what reform schools are for." - Mae West

"A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possibility that the other may be right, though neither believes it." - Don Fraser
Marriage is like a pair of shears Oft times working in opposite directions, but punishing anyone that comes between them.

- Sydney Smith

"I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make my marriage vows mean what they say. I show up. I listen. I try to laugh." - Anna Quindlen, A Short Guide to a Happy Life

"Men marry what they need. I marry you." - John Ciardi

"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

"Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat." - Joanne Woodward

"For I've been born and I've been wed. All of man's peril comes of bed." - C.H. Webb, Dum Vivimus Vigilemus

"You don't need to be on the save wavelength to succeed in marriage. You just need to be able to ride each other's waves." - Toni Sciarra Poynter, From This Day Forward: Meditations on the First Years of Marriage

"I love being married. It's so great to find one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life." - Rita Rudner

"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy, you must have somebody to divide it with." - Mark Twain
Getting married for sex is like buying a 747 for
the free peanuts

- Jeff Foxworthy