Marriage quotes

Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution. Mae West
Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest. George Eliot

Marriage quotes by Francois Voltaire

Also about
Inspiration, Humour, Wife, Husband, Surprise, Ambiguity, Relationships, Divorce, Absurd, Friendship
The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself. Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient. Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake. Elbert Hubbard
(also about
Humour, Advice)
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory. Abraham Linkoln
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
(also about
Sex)
Success in marriage depends on being able, when you get over being in love, to really love. Eleanor Roosevelt
(also about
Love)
Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip. John Lennon
I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage. Mahatma Gandhi

Marriage quotes by George Gordon Byron

Also about
Love, Feelings, Death, Comedy, Drama, Women
I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all. I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness. All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage. Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Marriage quotes by Woody Allen

Also about
Absurd, Humour, Atheism
Marriage is the death of hope. It's a match made in heaven...by a retarded angel. I did not marry the first girl that I fell in love with, because there was a tremendous religious conflict, at the time.
She was an atheist, and I was an agnostic.

Marriage quotes by Martin Luther

Also about
Wife, Husband
Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave. There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.
If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he married. Kirk Douglas
(also about
Men)
When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married. William Shakespeare
(also about
Death)
So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me... everyday. Nicholas Sparks
(also about
Love, Relationships)
I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men. Nikola Tesla
(also about
Science, Inventions, Scientists)
I haven't yet seen a husband who didn't want to become a bachelor just for an hour... Yuri Nikulin
(also about
Humour, Bachelorhood)
In my marriages, I'd lost parts of who I was because I was trying to mold myself into what I thought a man wanted me to be. Jane Fonda
(also about
Integrity)

Marriage quotes by Faina Ranevskaya

Also about
Humour, Age, Men & Women, Happiness, Fairytale, Delusion
A real man is the one who remembers the lady's birthday, but never knows how old she is.
A man who never remembers her birthday, but knows exactly how old she is, - is her husband. ...when you get married, then you'll undersrand what happiness is. But it will be too late. A fairytale is when you marry a frog and it turns out to be a princess. Reality is vice versa.

Marriage quotes by Carla Bruni

Also about
Independence, Fidelity, President, Public Opinion
Marriage is another trap. If you are someone who likes independence, it's another stamp against that. And you have to swear to fidelity. I hoped that, you know, France wouldn't mind about, you know, the wife of their president to having a job.
I suffered, I really suffered, with all three of my husbands. And I tried damn hard with all three, starting each marriage certain that it was going to last until the end of my life. Yet none of them lasted more than a year or two. Ava Gardner
(also about
Relationships, Memories)

Marriage quotes by Benjamin Franklin

Also about
Advice, Happiness, Relationships, Love
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards. Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness. Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
I was married to someone who wanted me to change. Become more adult, more responsible. I began not to like myself, not like what I do. I lost my identity. Everything began collapsing around me. Marilyn Manson
(also about
Personality, Integrity, Identity, Individuality)
After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate. Mel Gibson
(also about
Women)
A loving wife hears even what goes unsaid. Adriano Celentano
(also about
Love, Understanding, Wife)

Marriage quotes by Simone de Beauvoir

Also about
Relationships, Men & Women, Love, Life, Selfishness, Sexism, Men
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job. Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen. A man attaches himself to woman - not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.

Marriage quotes by Rod Stewart

Also about
Relationships, Humour, Family, Age, Parenthood, Love, Women, Experience
Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house. I can definitely say the older I've got the better I've become at being a dad and a husband. I think I was always looking for that perfect woman, who obviously doesn't exist. I wanted to be married. I wanted more kids. I'm a family man, at heart. "I shouldn't have got married". My dad told me.
I was 35 and I got married.
He said, "You're too young to be married".
"What? I'm 35".
Said, "You're far too young. You haven't lived yet".
He was right, bless him, thanks, Dad.
I want just to be happy and peaceful. And that's not always the case when you're married. Olivier Martinez
(also about
Happiness, Peace)
Ah! How annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts. Moliere
(also about
Humour, Law, Women)
My toughest fight was with my first wife. Muhammad Ali
(also about
Relationships, Humour, Wife)

Marriage quotes by Francis Bacon

Also about
Wife, Family, Work, Success, Achievements, Children
Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men. He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage. Stendhal
(also about
Love, Relationships, Boredom)
Nowadays it is seen as a shame, to marry a girl who is a mother, who has never been married. I want to get rid of that prejudice. Frederick the Great
(also about
Prejudice)
Were such the wife had fallen to my part, I'd break her spirit, or I'd break her heart. Robert Burns
(also about
Wife)
Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife. Franz Schubert
(also about
Friendship, Happiness, Relationships, Wife)

Marriage quotes by Muriel Spark

Also about
Waste, Relationships
Saving and pinching to get married, you're losing the best time of your life. There was altogether too much candor in married life; it was an indelicate modern idea, and frequently led to upsets in a household, if not divorce...
I wanna stay an eternal girlfriend. I want to have my boyfriend's children, but I don't think we need a piece of paper to regulate the game, and we don't have to go through the whole stress of a wedding and suffering to throw a good party. Shakira
(also about
Relationships, Family)
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility. Leo Tolstoy
(also about
Relationships)
Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other. Ian Fleming
(also about
Relationships)

Marriage quotes by Charles Bukowski

Also about
Solitude, Bachelorhood, Prejudice, Loneliness
I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life. If you get married they think you're finished.
And if you are without a woman they think you're incomplete.

Marriage quotes by Jane Austen

Also about
Fortune, Men, Women, Contentment, Poverty, Bachelorhood, Love, Relationships, Men & Women, Foolishness
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done. Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony. Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then. It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. Men of sense, whatever you may choose to say, do not want silly wives.
Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms. Franz Kafka
(also about
Life, Women, Consensus)
A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. John Steinbeck
(also about
Life, Control, Delusion)
I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots William Butler Yeats
(also about
Men, Self-Destruction)
She was as sated with him as he was tired of her. Emma had rediscovered in adultery all the banality of marriage. Gustave Flaubert
(also about
Adultery)

Marriage quotes by Honoré de Balzac

Also about
Relationships, Husband, Humour, Women, Love, Selfishness, Belief, Immortality, Men & Women, Sexism
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning. No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way. It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time. One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed. Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.

Marriage quotes by George Bernard Shaw

Also about
Humour, Conflict, Men & Women, Character
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. If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.