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Quotes about Marriage

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Alan Patrick HerbertThe conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
Allan James Morton
(1962 - )
Marriage, Mortgage and Children....Lifes Full Catastrophe!
Ambrose BierceLove, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
AnonymousLosing a husband can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible.
Benjamin Franklin
(1706 - 1790)
Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
Benjamin Franklin
(1706 - 1790)
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
Bill CosbyWives don't want to hear what husbands think. Wives want to hear what they themselves think, but in a deeper voice.
Chantal SapersteinAll marriages are mixed marriages.
Christopher MorleyThe trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.
Clint EastwoodThere's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.
Dennis MillerNever ever discount the idea of marriage. Sure, someone might tell you that marriage is just a piece of paper. Well, so is money, and what's more life-affirming than cold, hard cash?
Dr. Samuel Johnson
(1707 - 1784)
It is commonly a weak man who marries for love.
Dr. Samuel Johnson
(1707 - 1784)
I believe marriages would in general be as happy, and often more so, if they were all made by the Lord Chancellor, upon a due consideration of characters and circumstances, without the parties having any choice in the matter.
Dr. Samuel Johnson
(1707 - 1784)
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
Dr. Samuel Johnson
(1707 - 1784)
The triumph of hope over experience.
Edward Abbey
(1927 - 1989)
Married couples who quarrel bitterly every day may really need each other as deeply as those who appear to be desperately in love.
Eric Smith
(1961 - )
Are you kidding me? I'm not stupid!.....anymore.
George Bernard Shaw
(1856 - 1950)
When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.
George Bernard ShawMarriage is popular because ir combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
GodLoved the wedding -- now invite me to the marriage.
Groucho Marx
(1890 - 1977)
I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
H. L. MenckenHe marries best who puts it off until it is too late.
Helen Rowland
(1876 - 1950)
One man's folly is another man's wife.
Helen RowlandMarriage: a souvenir of love.
Honore' de Balzac
(1799 - 1850)
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
Horace WalpoleThe only lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, seperation.
Jack Benny
(1894 - 1974)
My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.
Jean Rostand
(1894 - 1977)
Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.
Joan RiversTrust your husband, adore your husband, and get as much as you can in your own name.
Joey Adams
(1911 - 1999)
Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway.
Johann kaspar LavaterHow many women would laugh at the funeral of their husbands if it were not the custom to weep?
Joseph HellerI couldn't see tying myself down to a middle-aged woman with four children, even though the woman was my wife and the children were my own.
Lord ByronAll tragedies are finished by death; all comedies are ended by marriage.
Mae West
(1892 - 1980)
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.
Marie CorelliI never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home that serve the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog that growls every morning, a parrot that swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.
Mohammad AliMy toughest fight was with my first wife.
MontaigneA good marriage would be between a deaf husband and a blind wife.
Nick FaldoWe were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.
Oscar LevantMairrage is a triumph of habit over hate.
Oscar Wilde
(1854 - 1900)
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
Ray BandyHoneymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeThe most happy marriage I can picture . . . would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
Stephen Millich
(1941 - )
If a second marriage is a triumph of hope over experience, anyone trying a third should not be allowed to escape through death.
Stephen Millich
(1941 - )
If a second marriage is a triumph of hope over experience, anyone involved in a third should not be allowed to escape through death.
Walt HaskinsTo many, the marriage vows are only a series of trick questions to be answer later, maybe.
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Walt HaskinsWomen who mar for money are just hookers with higher prices and more patience.
- (Author- Comments USA)
Walt HaskinsWomen who marry for money are merely hookers with higher prices and more patience
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Wilson MiznerThe days just prior to marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book.
Zsa Zsa GaborI know what to do, but I'm not sure how to make it interesting.
Zsa Zsa GaborGetting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
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