In today's world of self-obsession, marriage remains a sacrosanct and unequivocal expression of commitment. Marriage is not just a union of two people. It is a confluence of values, culture, and traditions. And this is especially true when the two people getting married hail from diverse backgrounds. Marriage can work only when the couple in love is fully aware of the differences and is willing to work around them.

Joseph Barth
Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

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

W. H. Auden
Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Amy Bloom
Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.

Samuel Johnson
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

Oscar Wilde
Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
The first bond of society is marriage.

Benjamin Franklin
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and the state in which you will find solid happiness.

Jeremy Taylor
Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it.

Ruth Bell Graham
A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.

Mrs Patrick Campbell
Wedlock is the deep, deep peace of the double bed after the hurly burly of the chaise lounge.

William Lyon Phelps
The highest happiness on earth is marriage.

Harry Emerson Fosdick
It is not marriage that fails; it is people that fail. All that marriage does is to show people up.

George Jessel
Marriage is a mistake every man should make.