Marriage Quotes

Aeschylus

Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.

Anspacher, Louis

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

Bacon, Francis

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

Barrymore, John

You never realize how short a month is until you pay alimony.

Barth, Joseph

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Harriet Ward

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

Bierce, Ambrose

Marriage: a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves - making in all two.

Byron, Lord

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Cabell, James Branch

People marry through a variety of other reasons, and with varying results; but to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.

Campbell, Joseph

When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.

Campbell, Joseph

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

Campbell, Joseph

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

Cibber, Colley

Oh! how many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring.

DeVries, Peter

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

DeVries, Peter

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man.

Dumas, Alexander

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three.

Dupuy, Alexis

Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Euripides

It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.

Ferber, Edna

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Franklin, Benjamin

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Fuller, Thomas

More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.

Fuller, Thomas

Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

A man in love is incomplete until he has married- then he's finished.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.

Heraclitus

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

Homer

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.

Howe, Edgar Watson

For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone.

Irving, Washington

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Johnson, Samuel

It is so far from being natural for a man and woman to live in a state of marriage, that we find all the motives which they have for remaining in that connection, and the restraints which civilised society imposes to prevent separation, are hardly sufficient to keep them together.

Kerr, Jean

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

La Rochefoucauld, François

There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.

Landers, Ann

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest- never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Luther, Martin

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

Maurois, André

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt everyday.

Mitchell, Langdon

Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins.

Moore, Thomas

Marriage is an Athenic weaving together of families, of two souls with their individual fates and destinies, of time and eternity - everyday life married to the timeless mysteries of the soul.

Moore, Thomas

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

When marrying, one should ask oneself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this woman into your old age?

Ovid

What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.

Penn, William

Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.

Penn, William

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

Plath, Syliva

This seemed a dreary and wasted life for a girl with fifteen years of straight A's, but I knew that's what marriage was like, because cook and clean and wash was just what Buddy Willard's mother did from morning till night, and she was the wife of a university professor and had been a private school teacher herself.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude. Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole and against a wide sky.

Rogers, Will

I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.

Rowland, Helen

A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.

Russell, Bertrand

Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.

Samuel, Herbert

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make ita failure.

Shakespeare, William

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

Smith, Syndey

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.

Socrates

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.

Spanish Proverb

Woe to the house where the hen crows and the rooster keeps still.

Steinem, Gloria

I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.

Swift, Jonathan

Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.

Tillett, Benjamin

God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if he finds her.

Twain, Mark

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

Warner, Charles Dudley

There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own mind, and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications of her own.

Wilde, Oscar

When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.

Wilde, Oscar

Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious. Both are disappointed.

Wilde, Oscar

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

Wood, Jessica

Marriage is just legalized prostitution. Any man who says he hasn't paid for sex, has never been married!