Marriage Quotes.

Collection of famous and positive marriage quotes.

Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love. - French Proverb

The tragedy of modern marriage is that married couples no longer enjoy the support of society, although marriage, difficult at anytime, requires every social sanction. - Cyril Connolly

The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation. - Pope John Paul II

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 become one - Joseph Campbell

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up. - Joseph Barth

When entering into a marriage one ought to ask oneself; do you believe you are going to enjoy talking with this woman up into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory, but most of the time you are together will be devoted to conversation. - Friedrich Nietzsche

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance. - Brian Tracy

A happy marriage is a long conversation that always seems too short. - Andre Maurois

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship. - Joseph Campbell

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 day. - Barbara De Angelis

We only regard those unions as real examples of love and real marriages in which a fixed and unalterable decision has been taken. If men or women contemplate an escape, they do not collect all their powers for the task. In none of the serious and important tasks of life do we arrange such a "getaway." We cannot love and be limited. - Alfred Adler

Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash. - Joyce Brothers

Most married couples conduct themselves as if each party were afraid that the other one could see that it was the weaker. - Alfred Adler

Marriage is like a fort, those who are in want out, those who are out want in. - Arab Proverb

It is difficult for the average person to realize that friction with his spouse is based not so much upon minor contemporary provocation as upon the earlier frustrations and resentments of his childhood. - Dr. Karl Menninger

Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long. - Amy Grant

I see no marriages which sooner fail than those contracted on account of beauty and amorous desire. - Montaigne

The complaints which anyone voices against his mate indicate exactly the qualities which stimulated attraction before marriage. - Dr. Rudolf Dreikurs

The institution of marriage is just formalizing an emotion, an attempt to make it seem permanent. The emotion will last or it won't last; nothing can guarantee it. - Joyce Carol Oates

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crisis. - Andre Maurois

In a successful marriage, there is no such thing as one's way. There is only the way of both, only the bumpy, dusty, difficult, but always mutual path. - Phyllis McGinley

Just because a girl's married ain't no sign she hasn't loved and lost. - Kin Hubbard

In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving - instead of actually getting up and leaving. - Erica Jong

Marriage can bring fulfillment only inasmuch as it intensifies life. When it causes diminution it fails in its purpose. - Count Hermann Keyserling

The first ten years of a marriage are spent resolving differences of thoughts, habits, ways of doing things, likes and dislikes. - Source unknown

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to step back and see where the wife is wrong. - Archie Bunker

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. - John Lyly

I have now been married ten years. I am my husband's life as fully as he is mine. To talk to each other is but a more animated and an audible thinking. - Jane Eyre

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal. - Louis Anspacher

Though modern marriage is a tremendous laboratory, its members are often without preparation for the partnership function. How much agony and remorse and failure could have been avoided if there had been at least some rudimentary learning before they entered the partnership - Carl Rogers

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. - Friedrich Nietzsche

My husband tells me quite regularly that he is my biggest fan. I tell him often, "I adore you." There is so much power in words. You need to celebrate regularly the passion in your marriage. - Donna Krech

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way. - Iris Murdoch

For a marriage relationship to flourish, there must be intimacy. It takes an enormous amount of courage to say to your spouse, "This is me. I'm not proud of it -- in fact, I'm a little embarrassed by it - but this is who I am." - Bill Hybels

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid. - Harlan Miller

Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps. - Joe Murray

After a while in marriage, it doesn't work anymore. There is something missing, there is something wrong. There are few marriages that stay alive forever. We like something, and after a while, we hate what we used to love. - Monica Bellucci

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage. - Martin Luther

People say, "Oh, it's a piece of paper," but getting married gave us a kind of container as a family. - Julianne Moore

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. - Katherine Hepburn

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