Marriage Quotes

Few things in life are more embarrassing than the necessity of having to inform an old friend that you have just got engaged to his fiancee.

The poet marries the language, and out of this marriage the poem is born.

Unless you learn to play a duet in the same key, to the same rhythm, a slow process of disengagement will wedge you apart, first secretly, psychologically, and then openly and miserably.

There are just so many more laws and rules that apply with marriage that do not come with domestic partnership and also to me it's the commitment.

A man who does not ask to much become the promise of his land. His marriage married to his place, he waits and does not stray.

I'm going to get married again because I'm more mature now, and I need some kitchen stuff.

Even the God of Calvin never judged anyone as harshly as married couples judge each other.

A good marriage is like an incredible retirement fund. You put everything you have into it during your productive life, and over the years it turns from silver to gold to platinum.

Though marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves 'em still two fools.

Marriage indeed may qualify the fury of his passion, but it very rarely mends a man's manners.

Marriage is honourable, as you say; and if so, wherefore should Cuckoldom be a Discredit, being deriv'd from so honourable a Root?

What sweet delight a quiet life affords.

Whether it's marriage of business, patience is the first rule of success.

Marriage is a fine and sacred thing if you make it so.

They that Marry for Money cannot have the true Satisfaction of Marriage; the requisite Means being wanting.

[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

Marriage is a matter of more worth Than to be dealt in by attorneyship.

The fittest time to corrupt a man's wife is when she's fallen out with her husband.

If men could be contented to be what they are, there were no fear in marriage.

Thou art sad; get thee a wife, get thee a wife!

I have thrust myself into this maze, Haply to wive and thrive as best I may.

Lord, I could not endure a husband with a beard on his face! I had rather lie in the woolen.

Honor, riches, marriage-blessing Long continuance, and increasing, Hourly joys be still upon you!

As a walled town is more worthier than a village, so is the forehead of a married man more honorable than the bare brow of a bachelor.

Nay, we must think men are not gods, Nor of them look for such observancy As fits the bridal.

Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine, Whose weakness, married to thy stronger state, Makes me with thy strength to communicate.

I always felt as though, 'If nothing else, I have a successful marriage.'

I think there is some credibility to the notion that marriage is an institution. It meant something very different hundreds of years ago when it became the norm for people to go off and pair.

Shutting one's eyes is an art, my dear. I suppose there's no use trying to make you see that - but that's the only way one can stay married.

If everybody was so reverent of the institute of marriage, how did all the adultery get committed?

The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.

Most women have low standards. All they strive for is a highly paid man.

Darling, I would follow you through the blackest midnight—just not without my trousers!

Such a mad marriage never was before.

A successful marriage was a balancing act-that was a thing everyone knew. A successful marriage was also dependent on a high tolerance for irritation.

One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry.

Our life has been joined, not by man, but by God. That union can only be severed by a crime, and a crime of that nature brings its own chastisement.

Women may fall when there's no strength in men.Act II

They say all marriages are made in heaven, but so are thunder and lightning.

If [God] send me no husband, for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening ...

…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.

Education is not merely meant for you to write and pass exams, get a good job and a good spouse, and settle down for survival.

Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.

LADY BRACKNELLTo speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.

For marriage is like life in this—that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses.

It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man'sto keep unmarried as long as he can.

Were kisses all the joys in bed, /One woman would another wed.

I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence?

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think youcontrol it.

Marrying means to halve one's rights and double one's duties