25 Quotes About Marriage

1. "What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow." (Nathaniel Hawthorne) Click to tweet

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2. "Married life teaches one invaluable lesson: to think of things far enough ahead not to say them." (Jefferson Machamer) Click to tweet

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3. "Woke up in bed with a gorgeous woman, who i’m going to have lunch and the rest of my life with." (Jason Barmer) Click to tweet

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4. "Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that god can’t help but smile on it." (Josh Billings) Click to tweet

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5. "There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first." (Adela Rogers St. Johns) Click to tweet

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6. "A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short." (Andre Maurois) Click to tweet

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7. "Matrimony—the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented." (Heinrich Heine) Click to tweet

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8. "A man’s wife has more power over him than the state has." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Click to tweet

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9. "Husbands are like fires. They go out when unattended." (Zsa Zsa Gabor) Click to tweet

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10. "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) Click to tweet

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11. "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) Click to tweet

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12. "The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep." (A.P. Herbert) Click to tweet

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13. "If two stand shoulder to shoulder against the gods, happy together, the gods themselves are helpless against them, while they stand so." (Maxwell Anderson) Click to tweet

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14. "When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible." (Nora Ephron) Click to tweet

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15. "Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid." (Harlan Miller) Click to tweet

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16. "To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the loving cup, whenever you’re wrong, admit it; whenever you’re right, shut up." (Ogden Nash) Click to tweet

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17. "There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage." (Martin Luther) Click to tweet

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18. "The older i get, the less time i want to spend with the part of the human race that didn’t marry me." (Robert Brault) Click to tweet

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19. "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) Click to tweet

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20. "If you made a list of the reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you’d have a hell of a lot of overlapping." (Mignon McLaughlin) Click to tweet

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21. "When the one man loves the one woman and the one woman loves the one man, the very angels desert heaven and come and sit in that house and sing for joy." (The Brahma Sutras) Click to tweet

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22. "To keep the fire burning brightly there’s one easy rule: keep the two logs together, near enough to keep each other warm and far enough apart — about a finger’s breadth — for breathing room. Good fire, good marriage, same rule." (Marnie Reed Crowell) Click to tweet

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23. "Wasn’t marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded. Wasn’t it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt." (Edna Ferber) Click to tweet

24. "What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life — to strengthen each other in all labour, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?" (George Eliot) Click to tweet

25. "Just as amy and jay had for decades slept nude together, inhaling each other’s odors, her hands familiar with the man’s body hair. Even her face creams and his night grunts would have entered into it. And shared cakes of soap and clothes closets and dinners — such a complex of intimacies." (Saul Bellow) Click to tweet