“ Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson”
“ Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious. Both are disappointed.
~ Oscar Wilde”
“ I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
~ Mahatma Gandhi”
“ Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
~ George Bernard Shaw”
“ My advice to you is get married, if you find a good wife you'll be happy, if not, you'll become a philosopher.
~ George Bernard Shaw”
“ Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
~ George Bernard Shaw”
“ A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.
~ Zsa Zsa Gabor”
“ A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
~ William Somerset Maugham”
“ Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.
~ Washington Irving”
“ However often marriage is dissolved, it remains indissoluble. Real divorce, the divorce of heart and nerve and fiber, does not exist, since there is no divorce from memory.
~ Virgilia Peterson”
“ She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook.
~ Tommy Manville”
“ 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.
~ Sydney Smith”
“ Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.
~ Sydney J Harris”
“ The homegrown tomato is best .
~ Ross Lockridge”
“ I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
~ Rita Rudner”
“ I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
~ Rita Rudner”
“ All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.
~ Raymond Hull”
“ When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.
~ Prince Philip”
“ The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.
~ Peter De Vries”
“ Never get married in the morning - you never know who you might meet that night.
~ Paul Hornung”
“ A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.
~ Nanette Newman”
“ I never knew what real happiness was until I got married. And by then it was too late.
~ Max Kauffman”
“ Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.
~ Marilyn Monroe”
“ He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.
~ Mae West”
“ I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all..
~ Lord Byron”
“ One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.
~ Judith Viorst”
“ One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of love with him, or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you maybe fall in again.
~ Judith Viorst”
“ Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
~ Josh Billings”
“ Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.
~ Joseph Barth”
“ A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
~ Joey Adams”
“ Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps.
~ Joe Murray”
“ Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.
~ Joanne Woodward”
“ Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.
~ Jean Rostand”
“ A dress that zips up the back will bring a husband and wife together.
~ James H Boren”
“ A good marriage is like a good trade: Each thinks he got the better deal.
~ Ivern Ball”
“ Marriage: A word which should be pronounced 'mirage';.
~ Herbert Spencer”
“ It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.
~ Herbert Samuel”
“ The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.
~ Henry Youngman ”
“ Well-married, a man is winged: ill-matched, he is shackled.
~ Henry Ward Beecher ”
“ A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.
~ Helen Rowland”
“ Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.
~ Helen Rowland”
“ Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.
~ Halen”
“ If I ever marry, it will be on a sudden impulse - as a man shoots himself.
~ H L Mencken”
“ Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.
~ H L Mencken”
“ The only way a woman can ever reform her husband is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.
~ Gloria Swanson”
“ Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
~ Gloria Swanson”
“ I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.
~ Gloria Swanson”
“ What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.
~ George Levinger”
“ Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
~ George Jessel”
“ If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.
~ Gary Smalley”
“ Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
~ F M Knowles”
“ It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.
~ Euripides”
“ More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.
~ Doug Larson”
“ Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
~ Billy Connolly”
“ A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
~ Bill Cosby”
“ Lasting harmony with a woman (was) an undertaking in which I twice failed rather disgracefully.
~ Bill Cosby”
“ The heart of marriage is memories.
~ Bill Cosby”
“ Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
~ Beverley Nichols”
“ I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man.
~ Benjamin Disraeli”
“ It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
~ Benjamin Disraeli”
“ Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
~ Barbra Streisand”
“ Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.
~ Andrew Jackson”
“ A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
~ Andre Maurois”
“ 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”
“ 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.
~ Warner, Charles Dudley”
“ 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.
~ Twain, Mark”
“ God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if he finds her.
~ Tillett, Benjamin”
“ Woe to the house where the hen crows and the rooster keeps still.
~ Spanish Proverb”
“ Marriage: a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves - making in all two.
~ Bierce, Ambrose”
“ As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
~ Socrates”
“ 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.
~ Smith, Syndey”
“ 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.
~ Shakespeare, William”
“ 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.
~ Rilke, Rainer Maria”
“ Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.
~ Penn, William”
“ The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.
~ Nietzsche, Friedrich”
“ 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.
~ Moore, Thomas”
“ Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins.
~ Mitchell. Langdon”
“ A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt everyday.
~ Maurois, Andr”
“ Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.
~ Aeschylus”
“ There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.
~ Luther, Martin”
“ Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.
~ Barth, Joseph”
“ 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.
~ Landers, Ann”
“ 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.
~ Kerr, Jean”
“ 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.
~ Johnson, Samuel”
“ Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
~ Bacon, Francis”
“ 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”
“ Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.
~ Heraclitus”
“ Marriage is the most natural state of man, and...the state in which you will find solid happiness.
~ Franklin, Benjamin”
“ It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.
~ Euripides”
“ Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.
~ Anspacher, Louis”
“ Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.
~ Dupuy, Alexis”
“ 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.
~ DeVries, Peter”
“ When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
~ 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”
“ People marry through a variety of other reasons, and with varying results; but to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.
~ Cabell, James Branch”
“ I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
~ Byron, Lord”
“ Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.
~ Alexis Dupuy”