Quotations About Marriage
Related: Anniversaries, Engagement, Weddings
It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it's separating himself from all the others.
Helen Rowland
Violets and Vinegar
Violets and Vinegar
The marriage state, with or without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.
Richard Steele
The Spectator
The Spectator
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Mignon McLaughlin
The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
A first-rate marriage is like a first-rate hotel: expensive, but worth it.
Mignon McLaughlin
The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
A virtuous wife is a man's best treasure.
Muhammad
The Sayings of Muhammad, 418
The Sayings of Muhammad, 418
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
Honore de Balzac
The Physiology of Marriage
The Physiology of Marriage
If you made a list of the reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.
Mignon McLaughlin
The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Bride, n. A woman with a fine prospect behind her.
Ambrose Bierce
The Devil's Dictionary, 1911
The Devil's Dictionary, 1911
Marriage, n. A community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all two.
Ambrose Bierce
The Devil's Dictionary, 1911
The Devil's Dictionary, 1911
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
Ambrose Bierce
The Devil's Dictionary
The Devil's Dictionary
In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage.
Robert Anderson
Solitaire & Double Solitaire
Solitaire & Double Solitaire
Women hope men will change after marriage but they don't; men hope women won't change but they do.
Bettina Arndt
Private Lives, 1986
Private Lives, 1986
Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
Phyllis Diller
Phyllis Diller's Housekeeping Hints, 1966
Phyllis Diller's Housekeeping Hints, 1966
For two people in a marriage to live together day after day is unquestionably the one miracle the Vatican has overlooked.
Bill Cosby
Love and Marriage
Love and Marriage
Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
Stephen Leacock
Literary Lapses, 1910
Literary Lapses, 1910
Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.
Jean Rostand
Le Mariage, 1927
Le Mariage, 1927
A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Journals
Journals
Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.
Lord Byron
Hours of Idleness
Hours of Idleness
There will be a world of water shed Upon the parting of your wives and you.
William Shakespeare
Glendower, in Henry IV
Glendower, in Henry IV
But married once, a man is stak'd or pown'd, and cannot graze beyond his own hedge.
Philip Massinger
Fatal Dowry, 1632
Fatal Dowry, 1632
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
Sacha Guitry
Elles et toi, 1948
Elles et toi, 1948
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
Paul
Colossians, 3:19
Colossians, 3:19
If they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
Paul
1 Corinthians 7:9
1 Corinthians 7:9
Well-married, a man is winged; ill-matched, he is shackled.
Henry Ward Beecher
Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
English Proverb
Happy are your wives! Happy are these your servants, who continually attend you and hear your wisdom!
1 Kings 10:8
Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots.
Hoosier Farmer
The highest happiness on earth is marriage.
William Lyon Phelps
Bride, n. A Woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
Ambrose Bierce
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.
Peter De Vries
Are we not like two volumes of one book?
Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.
Robert Burton
Saw a wedding in the church; and strange to say what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.
Samuel Pepys
Dogs should not chase chickens, and men should not fight with their wives.
Chinese Proverb
Spouse: someone who'll stand by you through all the trouble you wouldn't have had if you'd stayed single.
Unknown
A happy marriage is a long conversation that always seems too short.
Andre Maurois
The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.
Cyril Connolly
Never strike your wife - even with a flower.
Hindu Proverb
Wedlock is a padlock.
John Ray
Counsel men to discipline their children, but not to divorce their wives.
Chinese Proverb
It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Rita Rudner
True love stories never have endings.
Richard Bach
The ideal that marriage aims at is that of spiritual union through the physical. The human love that it incarnates is intended to serve as a stepping stone to divine or universal love.
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
George Bernard Shaw
Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.
Joseph Barth
Marriage, n: The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
Ambrose Bierce
No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
Abraham Lincoln
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
Ellen Key
My dear, my better half.
Sir Philip Sidney
A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.
Irish Proverb
Thrift, thrift, Horatio, the funeral baked meats Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.
William Shakespeare
The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.
Peter Devries
Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.
Brendan Francis
A retired husband is often a wife's full-time job.
Ella Harris
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.
Martin Luther
Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
Scottish Proverb
If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.
Thomas Fuller
What is he for a fool that betroths himself to unquietness?
William Shakespeare
Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
Unknown
Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
Marlene Dietrich
When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she became a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.
Susan B. Anthony
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on earth.
John Lyly
The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.
English Proverb
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
Paul Sweeney
She would love still, but she would never again be tender till her daughter should have repudiated her base,--her monstrous engagement.
Anthony Trollope
Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
Michael Leunig
I married beneath me--all women do.
Nancy Astor