Marriage Quotes

The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!

We get along real well actually [with my husband Karl Tomas Din]. We give each other space and he's not in the business and he doesn't want to be. I'm interested in his world, he's interested in mine, but we have our own things that we do together.

My wife is so fat that the last time I saw something that big it was grazing.

It was as if they had leapt over the arduous cavalry of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love. They were together in silence like an old married couple wary of life, beyond the pitfalls of passion, beyond the brutal mockery of hope and the phantoms of disillusion: beyond love. For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.

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

This woman goes into a gun shop and says, 'I want to buy a gun for my husband.' The clerk says, 'Did he tell you what kind of gun?' 'No,' she replied. 'He doesn't even know I'm going to shoot him.

Here is a relationship booster that is guaranteed to work: Every time your spouse or lover says something stupid make your eyes light up as if you just heard something brilliant.

My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head.

In marriage, if you're a guy, learn two phrases. One is "yes, dear" and the other is "honey, you're right." Be patient. Be good friends first. And stick together. You gotta work at it. It's not all a honeymoon, it's not all flowers and roses, but if you're friends and partners and committed, you'll be okay. And everybody's got advice for you - don't listen.

I'm not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day.

When a wife has a good husband, it is easily seen on her face.

"Well, well!" said my aunt. "I only ask. I don't depreciate her. Poor little couple! And so you think you were formed for one another, and are to go through a party-supper-table kind of life, like two pretty pieces of confectionery, do you, Trot?"

Let still woman take An elder than herself: so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart, For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, More longing, wavering, sooner to be lost and warn, Than women's are.

I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about short and cheap?

Not to sink under being man and wife,But get some color and music out of life?

In marriage a little licence, a little independence there must be between people living together day in and day out in the same house.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

The greatest day of my life was the day I married Mrs. Ford.

I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman.

No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.

my wifes cooking is so bad the flys fix our screens

My wife and I were happy for 20 years. Then we met.

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

Marriage is an institution very safely guarded.

Men and women -- even man and wife are foreigners. Each has reserves that the other cannot enter into, nor understand. These have the effect of frontiers.

I consider a country-dance as an emblem of marriage. Fidelity and complaisance are the principle duties of both; and those men who do not choose to dance or to marry them selves, have no business with the partners or wives of the neighbors.

People shop for a bathing suit with more care than they do a husband or wife. The rules are the same. Look for something you'll feel comfortable wearing. Allow for room to grow.

If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.

There are guys who grow up thinking they'll settle down some distant time in the future, and there are guys who are ready for marriage as soon as they meet the right person. The former bore me, mainly because they're pathetic; and the latter, frankly are hard to find.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.

Heroine: Girl in a book who is saved from drowning by a hero and marries him next week, but if it was to be over again ten years later it is likely she would rather have a life-belt and he would rather have her have it. Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it.

The confusing of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.

Marrying, founding a family, accepting all the children that come, supporting them in this insecure world, and perhaps even guiding them a little, is, I am convinced, the utmost a human being can succeed in doing at all.

Marriage is like a temple resting on two pillars. If they come too close to each other the temple will collapse.

A marriage...makes of two fractional lives a whole; it gives to two purposeless lives a work, and doubles the strength of each to perform it; it gives to two questioning natures a reason for living, and something to live for; it will give a new gladness to the sunshine, a new fragrance to the flowers, a new beauty to the earth, and a new mystery to life.

Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.

I will do anything, Nerissa, ere I'll be married to a sponge.

An exhaustive study of police records shows that no woman has ever shot her husband while he was doing the dishes.

A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness.

I love you, Gabby, more than you'll ever know. You're everything I've ever wanted in a wife. You're every hope and every dream I've ever had, and you've made me happier than any man could possibly be. I don't ever want to give that up. I can't.

Marriage? I ain't got time for a husband or child. All my life I've looked after myself as if I was my own child.

It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

If every man was as true to his country as he was to his wife, we'd be in a lot of trouble.

If husbands could realize what large returns of profit may be gotten out of a wife by a small word of praise paid over the counter when the market is just right, they would bring matters around the way they wish them much oftener than they usually do. Arguments are unsafe with wives, because they examine them; but they do not examine compliments. One can pass upon a wife a compliment that is three-fourths base

Marry an orphan: you'll never have to spend boring holidays with the in-laws.

I've known and respected your husband for many years, and what's good enough for him is good enough for me

In the early days of the New England colonies, no more embarrassing or hampering condition, no greater temporal ill, could befall any adult Puritan than to be unmarried.

The first bond of society is marriage.

So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball

My mother married a very good man ... and she is not at all keen on my doing the same.

The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

It is sometimes essential for a husband and a wife to quarrel - they get to know each other better.

I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman's skillet and the man's ax-helve.

It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.

I just got to feel that whoever I marry has some real regard for me.

Marriage is indeed a maneuvering business.

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.