Quotes of Matrimony - somelinesforyou

“ All marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems. ”

- Shelley Winters

“ Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented. ”

- Heinrich Heine

“ When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into — matrimony. ”

- George Farquhar

“ Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder. ”

- Thornton Wilder

“ Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough. ”

- Ingrid Bergman

“ There is a French saying: "Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.". ”

- De Finod

“ In Hollywood, all marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes problems. ”

- Shelley Winters

“ As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take the course he will. He will be sure to repent. ”

- Socrates

“ Love is blind — marriage is the eye-opener. ”

- Pauline Thomason

“ After a few years of marriage a man can look right at a woman without seeing her and a woman can see right through a man without looking at him. ”

- Helen Rowland

“ Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom. ”

- Karl Kraus

“ I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book. ”

- Gloria Swanson

“ We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are. ”

- Richard Henry Stoddard

“ Marriage is grand. Divorce is twenty grand. ”

- Jay Leno

“ Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. ”

- John Lyly

“ Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humbug. ”

- Max Frisch

“ Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet. ”

- Mae West

“ All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble. ”

- Raymond Hull

“ O curse of marriage that we can call these delicate creatures ours and not their appetites! ”

- William Shakespeare

“ France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are "made in America.". ”

- Helen Rowland

“ In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems. ”

- Shelley Winters

“ Accident counts for much in companionship, as in marriage. ”

- Henry Adams

“ A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. ”

- Helen Rowland

“ My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage. ”

- Patrick White

“ The marriage didn't work out but the separation is great. ”

- Liz Smith

“ More things belong to marriage than four bare legs in a bed. ”

- John Heywood

“ Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it. ”

- Elbert Hubbard

“ I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up. ”

- Barbara Bush

“ When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on. ”

- Henry Fielding
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