Explore Quotes on Marriage

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

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.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.

Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

It was only long after the ceremony that we learned why we got married in the first place.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Find an independent woman-who loves you for you and will be your best friend. I got it right the first time and was very, very lucky.

For 50 percent of Americans marriage is forever, for the rest of us there is another adventure.

Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

At least it's better to be married than to be dead.

I never grew up dreaming about a wedding - I don't think about things like that. I don't know how to explain it. All I care about is to be happy.