I have always considered marriage as the most interesting event of one's life, the foundation of happiness or misery.
-George Washington

Marriage is like life in this - that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses.
-Robert Louis Stevenson     

It is true that love is blind but marriage is definitely an eye-opener.
-Anonymous        

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.
-Friedrich Nietzsche

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character. -Peter de Vries

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
George Eliot

Marriage is the death of hope.
-Woody Allen

The most important marriage skill is listening to your partner in a way that they can't possibly doubt that you love them.
-Diane Sollee

The First Bond of Society is Marriage.
-Cicero     

A good marriage is the union of two good forgivers.
-Ruth Bell Graham

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
-Andre Maurois

Love is blind, marriage is the eye-opener.
-Pauline Thomason      

Marriage is a 3-ring circus - engagement ring, wedding ring and Suffering.
-Anonymous

The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret
-Henry Youngman

The most important marriage skill is listening to your partner in a way that they can't possibly doubt that you love them.
-Diane Sollee

Marriage, ultimately, is the practice of becoming passionate friends.
-Harville Hendrix

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

The more you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes.
-Amy Grant

Love is a flower which turns into fruit at marriage
-Finnish Proverb

A good marriage is the union of two good forgivers.
-Ruth Bell Graham   

Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.
-Alexis Dupuy              

I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man.
-Benjamin Disraeli      

Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-Benjamin Franklin      

I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-Will Rogers      

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.
-Herbert Samuel

God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if he finds her.
-Benjamin Tillett      

Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious. Both are disappointed.
-Oscar Wilde      

When asked his secret of love, being married fifty-four years to the same person, he said, "Ruth and I are happily incompatible".
-Billy Graham

One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of love with each other, it keeps you together until maybe
you fall in again.
- Judith Viorst

Marriage, like a submarine, is only safe if you get all the way inside.
-Frank Pittman     
 
Even with all its problems, I will support marriage as an institution until something better comes along.
-David Blankenhorn

The First Bond of Society is Marriage.
-Cicero

You can't be value free when it comes to marriage.
-Al Gore      

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

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered with disputes.
-Robert Louis Stevenson      

Bad marriages don't cause infidelity; infidelity causes bad marriages.
-Frank Pittman      

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.
-Zig Ziglar     

Marriage isn't supposed to make you happy - it's supposed to make you married.
-Frank Pittman

The development of a really good marriage is not a natural process. It is an achievement.
-David and Vera Mace     

No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.
-Mark Twain      

A good marriage is the union of two good forgivers.
-Ruth Bell Graham      

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

So many people have the will to have a strong marriage but don't have the skill.
-Kathy Beirne     

Love is a feeling, Marriage is a contract, and a Relationship is work.
-Lori Gordon      

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

Well-married, a man is winged: ill-matched, he is shackled.
-Henry Ward Beecher      

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
-Andr Maurois           

The secret to having a good marriage is to understand that marriage must be total, it must be permanent, and it must be equal.
-Frank Pittman

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.
-Leo Tolstoy

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
-Mignon McLaughlin

The goal in marriage is not to think alike, but to think together.
-Robert C. Dodds

A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude.
-Rainer Maria Rilke    

Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.
-Georg C. Lichtenberg      

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character
-Peter Devries      

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

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

The more you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes.
-Amy Grant

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
-Joseph Joubert     

Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins.
-Langdon Mitchell       

Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it
-Josh Billings      

Love seems the swiftest but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.
-Mark Twain      

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

It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer