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It should be a very happy marriage --- they are both so much in love with him.

Irene Thomas


In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner
US comedian


My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked.

Sir Winston Churchill
British politician (1874 - 1965)


A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck
US novelist in China (1892 - 1973)


The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open.

Groucho Marx
US comedian with Marx Brothers (1890 - 1977)


The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
English critic & poet (1772 - 1834)


My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked.

Sir Winston Churchill
British politician (1874 - 1965)


The only charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception necessary for both parties.

Oscar Wilde
Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900)


Even holligans marry, though they know that marriage is but for a little while. It is alimony that is forever.

Quentin Crisp


For the first year of marriage I had basically a bad attitude. I tended to place my wife underneath a pedestal

Woody Allen
US movie actor, comedian, & director (1935 - )


The days just prior to marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book.

Wilson Mizner
US screenwriter (1876 - 1933)


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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 - 1832)


You know, my Friends, with what a brave Carouse
I made a Second Marriage in my house;
Divorced old barren Reason from my Bed,
And took the Daughter of the Vine to Spouse.

For "Is" and "Is-not" though with Rule and Line
And "Up-and-down" by Logic I define,
Of all that one should care to fathom, I
Was never deep in anything but - Wine.

from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Translation by Edward Fitzgerald)


Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B.C.
Greek tragic dramatist (484 BC - 406 BC)


Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments: love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare, Sonnet cxvi
Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616)


All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Ann Landers
US advice columnist (1918 - 2002)


The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.

Oscar Wilde
Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900)


Choose in marriage only a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man.

Joubert


I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen
US television actress (1946 - )


That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier




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