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Marriage Quotes Part One

Love and marriage, go together like a horse and carriage…so goes the old Frank Sinatra song! But Old Blue Eyes isn’t the only one to come up with some words of wisdom on the subject. Read through The Wedding Directory’s collection of quotes about weddings and marriage…

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Germaine Greer, Australian writer and academic (Born 1939)

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
Lord Byron, English poet (1788-1824)

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.
Martin Luther King, American clergyman and political activist (1929-1968)

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you’re wrong, admit it; whenever you’re right, shut up.
Ogden Nash, American poet (1902-1971)

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
Homer, Ancient Greek poet (9^th Century BC)

The proper basis for a marriage is mutual misunderstanding
Oscar Wilde, Irish writer and poet (1854-1900)

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage
Mohandas Gandhi, political and spiritual leader of India (1869-1948)

Our wedding was many years ago. The celebration continues to this day
Gene Perret, American writer and producer

In all of the wedding cake, hope is the sweetest of plums
Douglas Jerrold, English dramatist and writer (1803-1857)

Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they blossom when we love the ones we marry
Tom Mullen, writer and musician

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
Honore de Balzac, French novelist and playwright (1799-1850)

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.
Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (1844-1900)