Marriage Quotations

If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.

If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don't blame the women's movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based.


For two people in a marriage to live together day after day is unquestionably the one miracle the Vatican has overlooked.



There are two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone who won't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?



Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.


He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.



It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.


One of the first things a relationship therapist learns is that couples argue to burn up energy that could be used for something else. In fact, arguments often serve the purpose of using up energy, so that the couple do not have to take the courageous, creative leap into an unknown they fear. Arguing serves the function of being a zone of familiarity into which you can retreat when you are afraid of making a creative breakthrough.


Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.



I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.