Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
Robert Louis Stevenson

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Marriage is a great institution.
Elizabeth Taylor

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.
Dick Gregory

What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.
Alain de Botton

I'm also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage - which no previous society has ever believed.
Alain de Botton

My second marriage had a lot to do with alcohol.
Mercedes McCambridge

I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more.
Marc Chagall

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.
William Penn

I know that the odds are against a marriage lasting 60 years.
Darrell Royal

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Honore de Balzac

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
Honore de Balzac

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

Well, my wife and I were married in a toilet - it was a marriage of convenience!
Tommy Cooper

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Mignon McLaughlin

Sometimes I bust out and do things so permanent. Like tattoos and marriage.
Drew Barrymore