902 Marriage Quotes to share with friends and relatives

If your husband and a lawyer were drowning and you had to choose, would you go to lunch or to a movie? – Author Unknown

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility. – George Levinger

Love-matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar. – Countess of Blessington

Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage. – Sydney J. Harris

That quiet mutual gaze of a trusting husband and wife is like the first moment of rest or refuge from a great weariness or a great danger. – George Eliot

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

Married life teaches one invaluable lesson: to think of things far enough ahead not to say them. – Jefferson Machamer

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. – HonorÃ© de Balzac, The Physiology of Marriage

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast. – Gabriel GarcÃa MÃ¡rquez

She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook. – Tommy Manville

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

Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses. – English Proverb

It was Mrs. Campbell, for instance, who, on a celebrated occasion, threw her companion into a flurry by describing her recent marriage as “the deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-longue.” – Alexander Woollcott, While Rome Burns

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him. – Marilyn Monroe

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again…. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring. – Enid Bagnold, Autobiography, 1969

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed. – Hoshang N. Akhtar

Two mothers-in-law. – Lord John Russell, on being asked what he would consider a proper punishment for

A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing. – Joey Adams

A question asked in a Surrey school exam went: “Why do cocks crow early every morning?” A twelve-year-old replied: “My dad says they have to make the most of it while the hens are asleep.” – Quoted in the Peterborough Daily Telegraph, 1983