Marriage Quotes

The good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.
Finley Peter Dunne

The secret of a happy and successful marriage remains secret.
Henny Youngman

The secret of a successful marriage isn't to be at home too much.
Colin Chapman

The true index of a husband's character is the health of his wife.
Cyril Connolly

There is a time for all things - except marriage, my dear.
Thomas Chatterton

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.
Oscar Wilde

There is nothing 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

There's nothing like a good cheating song to make me want to run home to be with my wife.
Steven Curtis Chapman

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
Alexander Pope

Well married a person which has wings, poorly married shackles.
Henry Ward Beecher

When a man opens a car's door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.
Prince Philip

When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
Sacha Guitry

When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place.
Helen Gahagan

When I get married, it'll be no secret.
Elvis Presley

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.
Friedrich Nietzsche

When you have a baby, love is automatic, when you get married, love is earned.
Marie Osmond

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

Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.
Hesiod

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

Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, while married men have done most of the fighting and market work?
Gary Becker

A dress that zips up the back will bring both a husband and wife together.
James H. Boren

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne

A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.
Helen Rowland

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
John Steinbeck

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.
W. Somerset Maugham

A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Mignon McLaughlin

A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.
Eddie Cantor

All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.
Raymond Hull

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.
Red Skelton

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

An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
Sacha Guitry

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.
Isadora Duncan

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
Samuel Johnson

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.
H. L. Mencken

Basically my wife was immature. I'd be in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.
Woody Allen

Before marriage, the 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

Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.
Jean Kerr

But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?
Mary Astell