Top 40 Marriage Quotations
“Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves. “– Anonymous“All marriages are happy. It’s living together afterwards that is difficult. “– Anonymous“Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want, then when you see what the other fellow has, you wish you had ordered that.”– Anonymous“It’s not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She’s not marrying the best man. “– Anonymous“Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter. “– Anonymous“Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.”– Jim Backus“Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner. “– Amy Bloom“Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery.”– Erma Bombeck“I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up. “– Barbara Bush“All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.”– Lord Byron“If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam. “– Johnny Carson“If you are afraid of loneliness, don’t marry. “– Chekhov“Marriage is an adventure, like going to war. “– G. K. Chesterton“The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. “– S. T. Coleridge“I never married because I have three pets at home that answer 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. “– Marie Corelli“I’d marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he’d be dead within a year. “– Bette Davis“Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness. “– Madame de Rieux“Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.”– Phyllis Diller“There’s only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I’ll get married again.”– Clint Eastwood“Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invaribly they are both disappointed.”– Albert Einstein“A man’s wife has more power over him than the state has.”– Ralph Waldo Emerson“Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards. “– Benjamin Franklin“A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished. “– Zsa Zsa Gabor“I’m an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house. “– Zsa Zsa Gabor“I don’t think I’ll get married again. I’ll just find a woman I don’t like and give her a house. “– Lewis Grizzard“If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. “– Katharine Hepburn“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. “– Jean Kerr“I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury. “– Groucho Marx“Politics doesn’t make strange bedfellows, marriage does. “– Groucho Marx“Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe. “– Jackie Mason“Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins. “– Langdon Mitchell“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“When marrying, one should ask oneself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this woman into your old age? “– Friedrich Nietzsche“Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he’ll fall asleep before you finish saying it. “– Helen Roland“By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll be happy. If you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.”– Socrates“Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry. “– Gloria Steinem“I’ve yet to be on a campus where most women weren’t worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I’ve yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing. “– Gloria Steinem“Loves 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. “– Mark Twain“Marriage is a great institution, but I’m not ready for an institution. “– Mae West“Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious. Both are disappointed.”– Oscar Wilde
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