The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship. – Jackie Kennedy
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity. – Honore de Balzac
A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted. – Helen Rowland
Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth. – Edwin Louis Cole
Marriage should be a duet – when one sings, the other claps. – Joe Murray
It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss volatile spirits prefer unhappiness. – George Santayana
Love is often the fruit of marriage. – Moliere
It is a full time job being honest one moment at a time, remembering to love, to honor, to respect. It is a practice, a discipline, worthy of every moment. – Jasmine Guy
Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them. – Ogden Nash
In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar – a practice which is still continued. – Helen Rowland
Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die. – Johnny Carson
Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands. – Jean Giraudoux
Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end. – Alphonse Karr
When you have a baby, love is automatic, when you get married, love is earned. – Marie Osmond
Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset. – Ann Landers
I enjoy being single, but I loved being married. – Stephanie Mills
In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape. – Gerald Brenan
Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate. – W. H. Auden
Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to brutally oppress people and thereby violated the laws of nature. – Jack Kingston
A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
