941 private quotes tagged marriage

“Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.” — George Eliot

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“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.” — Oscar Wilde

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“Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.” — Ann Landers

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“Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.” — Samuel Johnson

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“Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.” — Princess Diana

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“Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.” — Thomas Moore

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“When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity.” — Robert Anton Wilson

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“Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.” — Michel de Montaigne

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“Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.” — William Shakespeare

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“My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.” — Winston Churchill

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“If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.” — Michel de Montaigne

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“Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.” — Josh Billings

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“By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.” — Socrates

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“Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.” — Elbert Hubbard

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“Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.” — Woody Allen

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“Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.” — Ambrose Bierce

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“The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.” — Oscar Wilde

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“As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.” — Socrates

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“A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.” — Samuel Butler

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“Bachelors know more about women than married men if they didn't they'd be married too.” — H. L. Mencken

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“Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.” — Ambrose Bierce

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“Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.” — Jackie Kennedy

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