" (Marriage) is not by any to be entered into unadvisedly or lightly; but reverently, discreetly, advisedly, soberly, and in the fear of God."

Solemnization of Matrimony

I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man.

Disraeli

"Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on earth."

Mother Bombie:

"Oh, how many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring!"

Colley Cibber

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

Martin Luther

"Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures."

Samuel Johnson

"I . . . chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as would wear well."

Oliver Goldsmith

"Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?"

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred."

William O. Douglas

"Marriage is like life in this—that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses."

Robert Louis Stevenson

"The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable metamorphosis, separated me from the day before."

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

"It took great courage to ask a beautiful young woman to marry me. Believe me, it is easier to play the whole Petrushka on the piano."

Artur Rubinstein

"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

"For years [my wedding ring] has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward."

Erma Bombeck

"My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me."

Winston Churchill

"I never married. Nobody ever asked me."

Mattie White, on her 100th birthday

"A lady of 47 who has been married 27 years and has 6 children knows what love really is and once described it for me like this: 'Love is what you've been through with somebody.'"

James Thurber

"I know you've been married to the same woman for 69 years. That is marvelous. It must be very inexpensive."

Johnny Carson

"With this ring I thee wed."

Solemnization of Matrimony

If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.

O' Henry

A man may woo where he will, but he will wed where his hap is.

Anon

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage and half-shut afterwards.

Thomas fuller

Marriages are made in heaven.

Tennyson

A young man married is, a young man that is marr'd.

Shakespeare

Marriage is the waste paper basket of emotions.

Sidney Webb

Needles and pins, needles and pins,when a man marries his problem begins

Anon

Marriage is the most expensive way of discovering your faults.

F.P.J

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon Mclaughlin

A happy marriage is the union of two forgivers

R.Q

A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness, it is based os sensible reticence.

Morris Ernst.

To marry once is a duty, twice a folly, thrice is madness.

Proverb

Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin

Marriage is the lottery in which men stake their liberty, and women their happiness.

Mme. de Rieux

The woman cries before the wedding; the man afterward.

Proverb

Men marry beacuse they are tired, women because they are curious: both are dissapointed.

O. Wilde

A good marriage is between a bilnd wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne