Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such who are in the institution wish to get out and such as are out wish to get in. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

I know some good marriages -- marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other. (Erica Jong)

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty. (George Eliot)

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. (Johann von Goethe)

Wayne Garth, marriage is punishment for shoplifting in some countries. (Wayne's World)

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

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership. (Ann Landers)

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state. (Kathleen Norris)

Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards. (Benjamin Franklin)

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

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul. (Honore' de Balzac)

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything familiarity. (Honore' de Balzac)

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain. (Euripides)

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so jointed that they cannot be separated often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them. (Logan Pearsall Smith)

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

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse. (Doug Larson)

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to. (J. R. R. Tolkien)

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults. (Peter De Vries)

Accident counts for much in companionship, as in marriage. (Henry Adams)

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed. (Hoshang N. Akhtar)

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal. (Louis K. Anspacher)

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person. (Jane Austen)

It marriage happens as with cages the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to getting out. (D. A. Battista)

Marriage always demands the finest arts of insincerity possible between two human beings. (Vicki Baum)