Marriage Quotes

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 principles of equal partnership.

Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.

Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.

A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

But marriage goes in waves. You've got to be patient. People bail and give up on their marriages way too early. They just don't put the work and the effort into it. You've got to suck up your ego a lot of times, because that can be a big downfall.

I don't think my wife likes me very much, when I had a heart attack she wrote for an ambulance.

I might be celibate, but I appreciate the wonder of the sacrament of marriage.

The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.

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

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.

The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it.

I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make choices. If you want a good marriage, you must pay attention to that. If you want to be independent, go ahead. You can't have it all.

If I get married, I think I'd pick out a newspaperman rather than a millionaire. A newspaperman is a regular fellow.

It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.

Marriage is a difficult project. When seven years have passed and all your body's cells have been replaced, you're meant to experience that seven-year itch.