Marriage Quotes - Getting Married

Some pray to marry the man they love, my prayer will somewhat vary: I humbly pray to heaven above that I love the man I marry.
Anouk Aimee

No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
Robert Schuller

A man without a wife is like a vase without flowers.
Proverb

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.
Lyndon B. Johnson

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. Successful marriage demands a certain death to self.
Jerry McCant



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

If I ever marry, it will be on a sudden impulse - as a man shoots himself.
H.L. Mencken

Women seem to be all right on bargains till it comes to picking out a husband.
Kin Hubbard

Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld

He who marries for love without money has good nights and sorry days.

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
Katherine Hepburn

After a few years of marriage, a man can look right at a woman without seeing her - and a woman can see right through a man without looking at him.
Helen Rowland

The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.
Henny Youngman

God created sex. Priests created marriage.
Voltaire

In the early years, you fight because you don't understand each other. In the later years, you fight because you do.
Joan Didion

Bigamy is having one husband or wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
Oscar Wilde

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
Benjamin Disraeli

One should never know too precisely whom one has married.
Friedrich Nietzsche

A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
W. Somerset Maugham

My husband and I have never considered divorce... murder sometimes, but never divorce.
Joyce Brothers