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Favorite Quotes & Verses about
Love & Marriage
By Megan Mercer
Last Update:
October 16, 2006
So many people, famous and otherwise,
have written and spoken about love and marriage. Some
speak of it fondly
and others with spite. Some are comedic and some are
cynical. Nevertheless, here are some of
our favorite quotes about love & marriage...
A good marriage is
like a casserole, only those responsible for it
really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous
A successful man is one who
makes more money than his wife can spend. A
successful woman is one who can find such a man.
--
Lana Turner
A successful marriage requires falling in love many
times, always with the same person.
--Mignon McLaughlin
By all means
marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy,
and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates
Happiness is not having what you
want, but wanting what you have.
--Rabbi H. Schachtel
I think
men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for
marriage.
They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
--Rita Rudner
If it
weren't for marriage, men and women would have to
fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous
Immature love
says: "I love you because I need you." Mature
love says: "I
need you because I love you."
--Erich Fromm
Love begins with a smile, grows
with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous
Love is blind -- marriage is
the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason
Love
is patient, Love is kind.
It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered,
It keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects always trusts, always hopes, always preserves.
-- I Corinthians 13
Love does not consist in gazing
at each other, but in looking outward together in
the same direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Marriage is
a give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll
take it anyway.
--Joey Adams
Marriage is a matter of give
and take, but so far I haven't been able to find
anybody who'll take what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley
Marriage should be a duet--when
one sings, the other claps.
--Joe Murray
To love is to receive a glimpse
of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde
To keep your
marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup,
whenever you
are wrong, admit it; whenever you are right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash
There is no more lovely, friendly,
and charming relationship,
communion or company than a good marriage.
-- Martin Luther
Two
are better than one, because they have a good return
for their toil.
For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow; but
woe to him who is alone when
he falls and has not another to lift him up.
Again,
if two lie together,
they are warm; but how can one be warm alone?
And
though a man
might prevail against one who is alone, two will
withstand him.
-- Ecclesiastes 4:9-12