Amy Bloom
Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.
Booth Tarkington
An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.
Friedrich Nietzsche
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.
John Berger
All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
Mignon McLaughlin
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Jim Backus
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
Samuel Butler
In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
Chekhov
If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
Benjamin Franklin
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
Thomas Fuller
Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
Michel de Montaigne
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.
Amy Grant
The more you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes.
Leo Tolstoy
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.
Aeschylus
Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.
William Penn
In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.
Rainer Maria Rilke
A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude.
Peter De Vries
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.
Menander
There is no such cozy combination as man and wife.
Socrates
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
