Marriage Quotes

166 quotations about Marriage
It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination.
Samuel Johnson · Marriage
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
Samuel Johnson · Marriage
Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.
Erica Jong · Marriage
I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.
Max Kauffman · Marriage
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
Ellen Key · Marriage
I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
Sam Kinison · Marriage
Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
F. M. Knowles · Marriage
Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.
Karl Kraus · Marriage
Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
Stephen B. Leacock · Marriage
Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.
John Lennon · Marriage
There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
C. S. Lewis · Marriage
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
Abraham Lincoln · Marriage
Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
Martin Luther · Marriage
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
John Lyly · Marriage
One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.
Groucho Marx · Marriage
Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
Jackie Mason · Marriage
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
Andre Maurois · Marriage
A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
Andre Maurois · Marriage
A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
Andre Maurois · Marriage
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Mignon McLaughlin · Marriage
I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.
Margaret Mead · Marriage
If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.
H. L. Mencken · Marriage
We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.
Moliere · Marriage
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
Moliere · Marriage
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne · 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