All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble. Raymond Hull on marriage
The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship. Jackie Kennedy on marriage
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity. Honore de Balzac on marriage
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being. Benjamin Disraeli on marriage
A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted. Helen Rowland on marriage
Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers. Alan King on marriage
Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth. Edwin Louis Cole on marriage
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. Isadora Duncan on marriage
Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray on marriage
It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss volatile spirits prefer unhappiness. George Santayana on marriage
Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit. Billy Connolly on marriage
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. Jane Austen on marriage
Love is often the fruit of marriage. Moliere on marriage
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 on marriage
Plant and your spouse plants with you weed and you weed alone. Jean-Jacques Rousseau on marriage
Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance. Michel de Montaigne on marriage
They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake. Alexander Pope on marriage
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly. Peter De Vries on marriage
Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman. Joseph Joubert on marriage
My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives. Rita Rudner on marriage