Marriage Quotes

50. Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can’t help but smile on it.

^{Josh Billings}

51. Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die.

^{Johnny Carson}

52. Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above; this is the right time for marriage.

^Hesiod

53. If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

^{Katharine Hepburn}

54. Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth.

^{Edwin Louis Cole}

55. Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery.

^{Erma Bombeck}

56. Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

^{George Jessel}

57. Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.

^{Herbert Spencer}

58. Love is often the fruit of marriage.

^Moliere

59. Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

^{Jean de la Bruyere}

60. Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn’t work out, you haven’t wasted the whole day.

^{Mickey Rooney}

61. They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

^{Alexander Pope}

62. For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end.

^{Catherine Zeta-Jones}

63. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

^{Jane Austen}

64. Marriage has made me a lot happier and I’m deeply in love with my wife, and I thank God for her every day.

^{Harry Connick, Jr.}

65. Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

^{Ellen Key}

66. My husband and I are best of friends first and foremost. We fight like cats and dogs, but never stay mad for long. I was lucky to find him, he is in every way, my soulmate.

^{Carnie Wilson}

67. No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

^{Benjamin Disraeli}

68. Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

^{Henry Ward Beecher}

69. In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar – a practice which is still continued.

^{Helen Rowland}

70. I’ve had an exciting time; I married for love and got a little money along with it.

^{Rose Kennedy}

71. My wife is my soul mate. I can’t imagine being without her.

^{Matt Damon}

72. Perhaps my problem in marriage – and it is the problem of many women – was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to amarriage.

^{Hedy Lamarr}

73. It is a full time job being honest one moment at a time, remembering to love, to honor, to respect. It is a practice, a discipline, worthy of every moment.

^{Jasmine Guy}

74. In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.

^{Gerald Brenan}

75. It’s not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.

^Euripides

76. The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they’re too old to do it.

^{Ann Bancroft}

77. Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.

^{Jean Rostand}

78. Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.

^{Samuel Richardson}

79. One was never married, and that’s his hell; another is, and that’s his plague.

^{Robert Burton}

80. Marriage is a gamble, let’s be honest.

^{Yoko Ono}

81. Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.

^{Jean Giraudoux}

82. All marriages are happy. It’s the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.

^{Raymond Hull}

83. Marriage – a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.

^{Beverley Nichols}

84. Marriage is a financial contract; I have enough contracts already.

^{Linda Fiorentino}

85. When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.

^{Warren Farrell}

86. A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

^{Michel de Montaigne}

87. All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.

^{Oliver Goldsmith}

88. If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother.

^{Sam Levenson}

89. 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}

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

^{Helen Rowland}

91. If love means never having to say you’re sorry, then marriage means always having to say everything twice.

^{Estelle Getty}

92. Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage – they’ve experienced pain and bought jewelry.

^{Rita Rudner}

93. Getting divorced just because you don’t love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.

^{Zsa Zsa Gabor}

94. A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

^{Honore de Balzac}

95. Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she’s a householder.

^{Thornton Wilder}

96. I like getting married, but I don’t like being married.

^{Don Adams}

97. He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.

^{Jeremy Taylor}

98. A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

^{Andre Maurois}

99. I enjoy being single, but I loved being married.

^{Stephanie Mills}

100. Here in Hollywood you can actually get a marriage license printed on an Etch-A-Sketch.

^{Dennis Miller}

Marriage Quotes 101 – 200

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

^{Alphonse Karr}

102. Marriage is an exercise in torture.

^{Frances Conroy}