Marriage Quotes

[Niki]

SippinTea's topic (Happy Marriages) made me want to add some marriage quotes that I found online a few months ago.


"Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner, it feels limitless, not limited." -- Gloria Steinem

"In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing." -- Mignon McLaughlin

"A good marriage is the union of two good forgivers." -- Ruth Bell Graham


"We learned how to love each other by loving together good things wholly outside each other." -- Donald Hall


"Any fool can have a trophy wife. It takes a real man to have a trophy marriage." -- Diane Sollee


"What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility." -- Leo Tolstoy


"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother." -- Theodore Hesburgh


"A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' come together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences." -- Dave Meurer


"A first-rate marriage is like a first-rate hotel: expensive, but worth it." -- Mignon McLaughlin


"Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years." -- Simone Signoret


"The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly." -- Peter De Vries


"The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep." -- Alan Patrick Herbert


"Marriage is our society's most pro-child institution. If you want kids to do well, then you want marriage to do well." -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer


"There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage." -- Martin Luther King


"A happy wife equals a happy life."


"It takes a loose rein to keep a marriage tight." -- John Stevenson


"Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without." -- Lord Byron


"The secret to having a good marriage is to understand that marriage must be total, it must be permanent and it must be equal." -- Frank Sinatra


"More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse." -- Doug Larson


"Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side." -- Zig Ziglar


"Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favor of the Lord." -- Proverbs


"A psychiatrist is a person who will give you expensive answers that your wife will give you for free."

[MelodyB]

[The Purple Fuzzy]

Those are good!

[myhaloisintheshop]

May there be such a oneness between you in your marriage that when one of you weeps, the other will taste the salt " (Martin Buxbaum).

[SippinTea]

You've got some good stuff there, Niki!

My two favorites:

"Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years." -- Simone Signoret

Funny you posted this one. I read it recently, and thought it was great.

"Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without." -- Lord Byron

Heard this one for years. Always wondered if it were right or not. I'm beginning to think maybe it is. *Wooby ponders*

[BenJammin]

"A psychiatrist is a person who will give you expensive answers that your wife will give you for free."

How true!!!

[almondjoy]