Marriage Quotes
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
Abraham Lincoln
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friedrich Nietzsche
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne
I’d marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he’d be dead within a year.
Bette Davis
Bette Davis
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Winston Churchill
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
Benjamin Franklin
There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.
Oscar Wilde
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
Oscar Wilde
When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Mae West
Marriage is a great institution, but I’m not ready for an institution.
He’s the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.
Mae West
By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
Socrates
Politics doesn’t make strange bedfellows – marriage does.
Groucho Marx
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
Groucho Marx
Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
Henry Ward Beecher
Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn’t they’d be married too.
H. L. Mencken
Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
H. L. Mencken
Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
Ambrose Bierce
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
Ambrose Bierce
If I get married, I want to be very married.
Audrey Hepburn
He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.
Jeremy Taylor
When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you’re sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
Joseph Campbell
It’s tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won’t drink from my glass.
Rodney Dangerfield
Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
Martin Luther
Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
Samuel Johnson
Honore de Balzac
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
Honore de Balzac
When I get married, it’ll be no secret.
Elvis Presley
Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.
Ogden Nash
To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you’re wrong, admit it; Whenever you’re right, shut up.
Ogden Nash
The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.
Jackie Kennedy
I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?
Jackie Kennedy
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.
W. H. Auden
When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.
Warren Farrell
Perhaps my problem in marriage – and it is the problem of many women – was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage.
Hedy Lamarr
Marriage is a gamble, let’s be honest.
Yoko Ono
Marriage is a difficult project. When seven years have passed and all your body’s cells have been replaced, you’re meant to experience that seven-year itch.
Yoko Ono
A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
John Steinbeck
On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable.
Emma Goldman
Husbands are like fires – they go out when they’re left unattended.
Cher
Marriage is a great institution.
Elizabeth Taylor
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
A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he’s finished.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Getting divorced just because you don’t love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
Barbara Bush
Instead of getting married again, I’m going to find a woman I don’t like and give her a house.
Lewis Grizzard
Marriage is not about age; it’s about finding the right person.
Sophia Bush
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
Herbert Spencer
There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.
Princess Diana
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Mignon McLaughlin