Marriage

It's such happiness when good people get together - and they always do.
Emma, Jane Austen

He wasn't afraid of me.
Hillary Rodham Clinton on what first attracted her to Bill

Never marry a man who hates his mother.
Beth Clements

In a perfect union the man and woman are like a strung bow. Who is to say whether the string bends the bow, or the bow tightens the string?
Cyril Connolly (1903-1974), critic/editor

Courtship to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
William Congreve (1670-1729), dramatist

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.
Peter DeVries

Marriages that flourish are friendships that are characterized by the daily decision to take delight in and give grace to one's spouse.
Stever Garber

If I marry: he must be so tall that when he is on his knees, he reaches all the way to heaven. His shoulders must be broad enough to bear the burden of a family. His lips must be strong enough to smile, firm enough to say no, and tender enough to kiss.
Ruth Bell Graham at seventeen, when she intended to never marry

What's the difference between a boyfriend and a husband? About 30 pounds.
Cindy Gardner

There is nothing nobler or more admirable then when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
Homer

Look for a sweet person. Forget rich.
Estée Lauder

Don't marry the one you can live with; marry the one you can't live without!
Kylie Minogue

Marriage is one of the most profound passages of life a person experiences. This is because it includes three significant states, simultaneously incorporating an ending, a merging, and a beginning.
Sydney Barbara Metrick

All I'm saying is that somewhere out there is the man you are supposed to marry. And if you don't get him first, somebody else will, and you'll spend the rest of your life knowing that somebody else is married to your husband.
"When Harry Met Sally"

All tragedies are ended by a death;
All comedies are ended by a marriage.
attributed to Byron in "Victoria and Albert"

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.
Will Rogers (1879-1935)

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Rita Rudner

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.
Rita Rudner

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.
Sydney Smith

Being married is like having someone permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
Gloria Steinem

Marry yourself first. Promise to never leave you.
SARK

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.
Mark Twain

I dreamed of a wedding of elaborate elegance...
A church filled with flowers, and friends, and beautiful music...
I asked him what kind of wedding he wished for...
He said one that would make me his wife.

God did not take Eve from Adam's head, to be above him,
or from his feet, to be below him,
but from his rib, to be near his heart and walk beside him.

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Voltaire (1694-1778)

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
Mae West

I ask you to pass through life at my side - to be my second self and best earthly companion.
Mr. Rochester in Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë