Marriage Quotes

166 quotations about Marriage
Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.
John Updike · Marriage
I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.
Susan Vass · Marriage
A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
Queen Victoria · Marriage
Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.
Queen Victoria · Marriage
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Voltaire · Marriage
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.
Peter De Vries · Marriage
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.
Peter De Vries · Marriage
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
Mae West · Marriage
It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.
Mae West · Marriage
They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.
Oscar Wilde · Marriage
Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.
Oscar Wilde · Marriage
The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.
Thornton Wilder · Marriage
Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder.
Thornton Wilder · Marriage
I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.
Shelley Winters · Marriage
Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.
Sir P(elham) G(renville) Wodehouse · Marriage
Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.
Brigham Young · Marriage

Authors on Marriage

Joseph Addison Aeschylus Hoshang N. Akhtar Woody Allen Henri Frederic Amiel Lady Nancy Astor Jane Austen Francis Bacon Honore De Balzac Joseph Barth Baskins Henry Ward Beecher Jill Bennett Bible Ambrose Bierce Josh Billings Pat Boone Dr. Joyce Brothers Jean De La Bruyere Peg Bundy