Marriage Quotes

Oh, Mama was a smart woman. It takes a smart woman to fall in love with a good man.

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that's called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country.

You could talk about same-sex marriage, but people who have been married (say) 'It's the same sex all the time.'

To be in love involves the most irresistible conviction that one will go on being in love until one dies, and that possession of the beloved will confer, not merely frequent ecstasies, but settled, fruitful, deep-rooted, lifelong happiness.

A married philosopher is a comic character.

Mrs. Jennings was a widow, with an ample jointure. She had only two daughters, both of whom she had lived to see respectably married, and she had now therefore nothing to do but to marry all the rest of the world.

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.

Get married, but never to a man who is home all day.

Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

He that has not got a wife is not yet a complete man.

Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and say 'Father, as it please me.

What is marriage but the renunciation of unchastity? The savage does not marry. Man marries because he renounces.

Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.

If marriage were only bed, we could have made it.

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing

I'm going to marry you one day, you know." "Is that a promise?" "If you want it to be.

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

Finally we promised to limit the birth rate. And this you really didn't believe; you smiled scornfully. Well, even in this things have gone well. The fact is that we have grown by over seventy millions in ten years, but it's also true that we have grown less than many other countries, including the countries of Europe.

A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle class unit.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure.

No married woman ever trusts her husband absolutely, nor does she ever act as if she did trust him. Her utmost confidence is as wary as an American pickpocket's confidence that the policeman on the beat will stay bought.

Marrying means, to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find out an eel out of an assembly of snakes.

I wouldn't be the man I am today without the woman who agreed to marry me 20 years ago

I met my wife on a ferry boat, and when we landed she gave me the slip

The nation needs to return to the colonial way of life, when a wife was judged by the amount of wood she could split.

Don't marry a man to reform him - that's what reform schools are for.

Between husband and wife friendship seems to exist by nature, for man is naturally disposed to pairing.

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

Poor Desdemona! I am glad thy father's dead.Thy match was mortal to him, and pure griefShore his old thread in twain.

A light wife doth make a heavy husband.

Get thee a good husband, and use him as he uses thee.

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

We have an epidemic of fatherlessness here, and that's what I agree with the president [Barack Obama] on, and we should be doing more to promote and protect marriage as between a man and a women for the needs of our children.

Listen, first of all, my wife is my best friend. My love for her is deeper than anything. The reality is, I'm not involved, I wasn't involved and I'm not going to be involved. Am I concerned for both of them Sure there's concern from me. I'm more worried about them than me. I'm like you guys, I'm trying to figure it all out.

My wife a great driver, she once hit a deer. It was in a zoo. There is a pair of shoes on the dashboard. They belong to the last guy she hit

There's villainous news abroad.

People are always making a fuss over my $15-20-million salaries. Believe me, the amount is meaningless once my wife, Maria, finds out about it. She's already spent half of my salary from Terminator 7!

If we women were particular about men's characters, we should never get married at all.

Three things are men most likely to be cheated in, a horse, a wig, and a wife.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

There is no more precious experience in life than friendship. And I am not forgetting love and marriage as I write this; the lovers, or the man and wife, who are not friends are but weakly joined together. One enlarges his circle of friends through contact with many people. One who limits those contacts narrows the circle and frequently his own point of view as well.

There is no greater stupidity than for people...to marry and so surrender themselves to the small miseries of domestic and private life.

The quality of a marriage is proven by its ability to tolerate an occasional "exception.

Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper,Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee,And for thy maintenance commits his bodyTo painful labour both by sea and land,To watch the night in storms, the day in cold,Whilst thou liest warm at home, secure and safe;And craves no other tribute at thy handsBut love, fair looks and true obedience;Too little payment for so great a debt.

You are my true and honourable wife;As dear to me as the ruddy dropsThat visit my sad heart.

Political elections are a good deal like marriages, there's no accounting for anyone's taste.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

The prerequisite for a good marriage ... is the license to be unfaithful.

So I took an interest in politics, but I don't know whether I enjoyed it! It was a wife's duty to be interested in whatever interested her husband, whether it was politics, books, or a particular dish for dinner.

Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.

It's easy to get married, but hard to stay that way.

Marry or marry not, in any either case you'll regret it

If married couples did not live together, happy marriages would be more frequent.