Marriage Quote

Amy Bloom: Love at first sight is easy to understand; it’s when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.

Ann Landers: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 Says Truth Is Stranger…, 1968

Booth Tarkington:An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.

Danny DeVito:There are two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone who won’t stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won’t go? The War of the Roses

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

Joyce Brothers:My husband and I have never considered divorce… murder sometimes, but never divorce.

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

Mark Twain:After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her. Adam, in Adam’s Diary

Mark Twain: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.

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

Nanette Newman:A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

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

Simone Signoret:Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. That is what makes a marriage last –more than passion or even sex!

Peter F. Drucker:Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans. ~

Barnett R. Brickner: Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate.