Quotes About Marriage

I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. – Rita Rudner

What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him. – H.L. Mencken

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds – they mature slowly. – Peter De Vries

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. – George Bernard Shaw

Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There’s too much fraternizing with the enemy. – Henry Kissinger Quote

Newlyweds become oldyweds, and oldyweds are the reasons that families work. – Author Unknown

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. – Simone Signoret

Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate. – Barnett R. Brickner

A married couple that plays cards together is just a fight that hasn’t started yet. – George Burns, Gracie a Love Story

A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time. – Anne Taylor Fleming

Never get married in the morning, because you never know who you’ll meet that night. – Paul Hornung

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse. – Doug Larson

Divorce: The past tense of marriage. – Author Unknown

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. – Mignon McLaughlin, The second neurotic’s notebook

In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage. – Robert Anderson, Solitaire/Double Solitaire

There is no such cozy combination as man and wife. – Menander

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight. – Phyllis Diller, Phyllis Diller’s Housekeeping Hints

In the opinion of the world, marriage ends all, as it does in a comedy. The truth is precisely the opposite: it begins all. – Anne Sophie Swetchine

If you made a list of the reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you’d have a hell of a lot of overlapping. – Mignon McLaughlin

If two stand shoulder to shoulder against the gods,
Happy together, the gods themselves are helpless
Against them while they stand so.
– Maxwell Anderson

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for granted relationship. – Iris Murdoch

English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. – Author Unknown

A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year. – Paul Sweeney

Matrimony is a process by which a grocer acquired an account the florist had. – Francis Rodman

Love is a flower which turns into fruit at marriage. – Finnish Proverb

A dress that zips up the back will bring a husband and wife together. – James H. Boren

One of the good things that come of a true marriage is, that there is one face on which changes come without your seeing them; or rather there is one face which you can still see the same, through all the shadows which years have gathered upon it. – George MacDonald

Love 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. – More Mark Twain Quotes

Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you. – Jean Rostand

Our wedding was many years ago. The celebration continues to this day. – Gene Perret

I figure that the degree of difficulty in combining two lives ranks somewhere between rerouting a hurricane and finding a parking place in downtown Manhattan. – Claire Cloninger, When the Glass Slipper Doesn’t Fit and the Silver Spoon Is in Someone Else’s Mouth

A man’s wife has more power over him than the state has. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married. And by then it was too late. – Max Kauffman

Don’t smother each other. No one can grow in shade. – Leo Buscaglia

Don’t marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can’t live without. – Dr. James C. Dobson

We have the greatest pre-nuptial agreement in the world. It’s called love. – Gene Perret

It takes a loose rein to keep a marriage tight. – John Stevenson

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being. – Oscar Wilde

Our marriage has always been a 50-50 proposition – with the possible exception of closet space. – Gene Perret

There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first. – Adela Rogers St. Johns

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast. – Marlene Dietrich

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman. – Joseph Joubert

Never strike your wife – even with a flower. – Hindu Proverb