(1547 quotes found)
“To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.”
Helen Rowland
“To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up”
Ogden Nash
“Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they blossom when we love the ones we marry.”
Tom Mullen
“Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one”
Joseph Campbell
“How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.”
Oscar Wilde
“I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.”
Rita Rudner
“More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.”
Doug Larson
“I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.”
Groucho Marx
“Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.”
G. K. Chesterton