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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.

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.

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

A first-rate marriage is like a first-rate hotel: expensive, but worth it.

A virtuous wife is a man's best treasure.

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.

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.

Bride, n. A woman with a fine prospect behind her.

Marriage, n. A community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all two.

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

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.

Women hope men will change after marriage but they don't; men hope women won't change but they do.

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.

For two people in a marriage to live together day after day is unquestionably the one miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.

A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

There will be a world of water shed Upon the parting of your wives and you.

But married once, a man is stak'd or pown'd, and cannot graze beyond his own hedge.

When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.

Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

If they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

Well-married, a man is winged; ill-matched, he is shackled.

Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.

Happy are your wives! Happy are these your servants, who continually attend you and hear your wisdom!

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.

The highest happiness on earth is marriage.

Bride, n. A Woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.

Are we not like two volumes of one book?

One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.

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.

Dogs should not chase chickens, and men should not fight with their wives.

Spouse: someone who'll stand by you through all the trouble you wouldn't have had if you'd stayed single.

A happy marriage is a long conversation that always seems too short.

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Never strike your wife - even with a flower.

Wedlock is a padlock.

Counsel men to discipline their children, but not to divorce their wives.

It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

True love stories never have endings.

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.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Marriage, n: The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

My dear, my better half.

A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.

Thrift, thrift, Horatio, the funeral baked meats Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.

A retired husband is often a wife's full-time job.

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

What is he for a fool that betroths himself to unquietness?

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.

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.

When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she became a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on earth.

The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.

A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.

She would love still, but she would never again be tender till her daughter should have repudiated her base,--her monstrous engagement.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

I married beneath me--all women do.