Wedding Quotes, Sayings about Marriage - Page 2
Hark! The merry chimes are pealing, Soft and glad the music swells, Gaily in the night wind stealing, Sweetly sound the wedding bells.
- Eliza Cook
Come live with me and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands and crystal brooks, With silken lines and silver hooks.
- John Donne
We took our time [preparing for marriage], we looked forward to it; didn’t want to run into something and have nothing to count on but love.
- Aunt May
The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity.
- Johann Wolfgang
He is the half part of a blessed man Left to be finished by such as she: And she a fair divided excellence Whose fulness of perfection lies in him.
- William Shakespeare
They say it takes a village to raise a child. That may be the case, but the truth is that it takes a lot of solid, stable marriages to create a village.
- Diane Sollee
To have and to hold from this day forward, for better or worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish to death do us part.
- Book of Common Prayer
Happy and thrice happy are those who enjoy an uninterrupted union, and whose love, unbroken by any sour complaints, shall not dissolve until the last day of their existence.
- Horace
Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.
- Joseph Barth
Friends don’t let friends get divorced.
- Diane Sollee
Get Married Stay Married What a concept.
- The Snipe
Love: a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.
- Ambrose Bierce
Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.
- George C. Lichtenberg
An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.
- Booth Tarkington
I got gaps; you got gaps; we fill each other’s gaps.
- Rocky
Marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
- Samuel Johnson
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
- Oscar Wilde
All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
- John Berger
He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.
- Francis Bacon
Divorce is not healthy for children, or other living things.
- Diane Sollee
I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
- Mohandas K. Gandhi
Marriage, ultimately, is the practice of becoming passionate friends.
- Harville Hendrix
The goal in marriage is not to think alike, but to think together.
- Robert C. Dodds
When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.
- Karl Menninger
Any fool can have a trophy wife. It takes a real man to have a trophy marriage.
- Diane Sollee
Marriage, like a submarine, is only safe if you get all the way inside.
- Frank Pittman
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
- Anne Bradstreet
I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
- Gloria Steinem
Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.
- Joyce Brothers
My husband and I have never considered divorce… murder sometimes, but never divorce.
- Joyce Brothers
Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring and integrity, they think of you.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr
Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.
- Oscar Wilde
If the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, it’s because they take better care of it.
- Cecil Selig
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
- Katharine Hepburn
Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person, they are almost indistinguishable.
- David Augsburger
Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they blossom when we love the ones we marry.
- Tom Mullen
Research has shown a child who sees his mother mistreated is more damaged than if the child himself is abused.
- Steven Stosny
Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets.
- Ogden Nash
As for his secret to staying married: “My wife tells me that if I ever decide to leave, she is coming with me.”
- Jon BonJovi


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