Quotes on marriage..

Here's some wisdom from those who have gone thru it...

A wise woman will always let her husband have her way.
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.
- Isaac Disraeli

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to step back and see where the wife was wrong.
- Archie Bunker

There is nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.
- Ivy Compton-Burnett

There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first.
- Adela Rogers St. John

When a man opens the car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.
- Prince Philip

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?
- Benjamin Franklin

Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing.
- Bible

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.
- Joseph Barth

As a general thing, people marry most happily with their own kind. The trouble lies in the fact that people usually marry at an age when they do not really know what their own kind is.
- Robertson Davies

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.
- Harlan Miller

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
- Samuel Johnson

Pains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. That's what makes a marriage last - more than passion or even sex.
- Simone Signoret

Marriage: a job. Happiness or unhappiness has nothing to do with it.
- Kathleen Norris

A man and a woman marry because both of them don't know what to do with themselves.
- Anton Chekhov

Marriage is one long conversation checkered by disputes.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

Husband and wife come to look alike at last.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

The young man who wants to marry happily should pick out a good mother and marry one of her daughters - any one will do.
- J. Ogden Armour

Only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other, to let her have it.
- Lyndon B. Johnson

No labourer in the world is expected to work for room, board, and love -except the housewife.
- Letty Cottin Pogrebin

A husband always prefers his wife's mother-in-law to his own.
- Anonymous

Married couples who love each other tell each other a thousand things without talking.
- Chinese proverb

Let there be spaces in your togetherness.
- Kahlil Gibran

Any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting and significant than any romance, however passionate.
- W. H. Auden

Marriage is a great institution, and no family should be without it.
- Channing Pollock

Any married man should forget his mistakes - no use two people remembering the same thing.
- Duane Dewel

Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins.
- Langdon Mitchell

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.
- Groucho Marx

A good husband should always bore his wife.
- Fred Jacob

Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
- Anonymous

It is better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
- Arab proverb

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
- Honore de Balzac

A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple.
- Danish proverb

There is a French saying: "Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love."
- De Finod

Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
- Benjamin Franklin

Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage; and half shut afterward.
- Thomas Fuller

Matrimony, - the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.
- Heinrich Heine

Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.
- Andrew Jackson

The woman cries before the wedding; the man afterward.
- Polish proverb

Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
- Oscar Wilde