When people talk, others listen, especially when it comes an influential person or someone in a position of authority. Well, that’s no different when it comes to marriage quotes. Some pretty important people have had some pretty important things to say about dealing with marriage and we’ve put together a list of quotes for you to browse for some inspiration.
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What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility. ~George Levinger
In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage. ~Robert Anderson, Solitaire & Double Solitaire
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds – they mature slowly. ~Peter De Vries
A man without a wife is like a vase without flowers. ~African Proverb
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
I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. ~Rita Rudner
What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne
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
Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him. ~H.L. Mencken, A Book of Burlesques, 1916
Newlyweds become oldyweds, and oldyweds are the reasons that families work. ~Author Unknown
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. ~Simone Signoret
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate. ~Barnett R. Brickner
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time. ~Anne Taylor Fleming
Never get married in the morning, because you never know who you’ll meet that night. ~Paul Hornung
More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse. ~Doug Larson
Divorce: The past tense of marriage. ~Author Unknown
One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again. ~Judith Viorst
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. ~Katherine Hepburn
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966
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There is no such cozy combination as man and wife. ~Menander
It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being. ~Benjamin Disraeli
The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through eternity. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight. ~Phyllis Diller, Phyllis Diller’s Housekeeping Hints, 1966
In the opinion of the world, marriage ends all, as it does in a comedy. The truth is precisely the opposite: it begins all. ~Anne Sophie Swetchine
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