When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity. Joseph Campbell
When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship. Joseph Campbell
Oh! how many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring. Colley Cibber
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly. Peter DeVries
The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character. Peter DeVries
I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man. Benjamin Disraeli
The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three. Alexander Dumas
Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning. Alexis Dupuy
Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal. Louis Anspacher
It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband. Euripides
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
You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife? Benjamin Franklin
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards. Benjamin Franklin
Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. Benjamin Franklin
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and...the state in which you will find solid happiness. Benjamin Franklin
Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye. Thomas Fuller
More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed. Thomas Fuller
A man in love is incomplete until he has married- then he's finished. Zsa Zsa Gabor
The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible. Carolyn Heilbrun
Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things. Heraclitus