What Is Marriage Quotes

My wife and I had words - but I never got to use mine.

I'm an extinct volcano.

A husband is what is left of a lover after the nerve has been extracted.

A rich widow weeps with one eye and signals with the other.

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Conrad Hilton was very generous to me in the divorce settlement. He gave me 5 000 Gideon Bibles.

In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me for she never speaks well of me herself nor suffers anybody else to rail at me.

Married women are kept women and they are beginning to find it out.

The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to step back and see where the wife was wrong.

There is nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.

When a man opens the car door for his wife it's either a new car or a new wife.

Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing.

Marriage is our last best chance to grow up.

As a general thing people marry most happily with their own kind. The trouble lies in the fact that people usually marry at an age when they do not really know what their own kind is.

Marriage is the deep deep peace of the double bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise longue.

Marriage: a job. Happiness or unhappiness has nothing to do with it.

A wife encourages her husband's egoism in order to exercise her own.

A man and a woman marry because both of them don't know what to do with themselves.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant of a teacher and a learner.

Husband and wife come to look alike at last.

There is a radicalism in all getting and a conservatism in all keeping. Lovemaking is radical while marriage is conservative.

His designs were strictly honourable as the phrase is: that is to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.

If thee marries for money thee surely will earn it.

A simple enough pleasure surely to have breakfast alone with one's husband but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as if she weren't.

No labourer in the world is expected to work for room board and love -except the housewife.

A husband always prefers his wife's mother-in-law to his own.

Woe to the house where the hen crows and the rooster keeps still.

Married couples who love each other tell each other a thousand things without talking.

Seldom or perhaps never does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises there is no coming to consciousness without pain.

Let there be spaces in your togetherness.

Any marriage happy or unhappy is infinitely more interesting and significant than any romance however passionate.

One of the best things about marriage is that it gets young people to bed at a decent hour.

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

Marriage is a great institution and no family should be without it.

Any married man should forget his mistakes - no use two people remembering the same thing.

I married beneath me - all women do.

A good husband should always bore his wife.

Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.

It is better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.

With this ring I thee wed with my body I thee worship and with all my worldly goods I thee endow.

Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure Marry'd in hast we may repent at leisure.

To marry once is a duty twice a folly thrice is madness.

There is a French saying: "Love is the dawn of marriage and marriage is the sunset of love."

Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage and half shut afterward.

It is not good that the man should be alone.

Bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh.

Weeping bride laughing wife laughing bride weeping wife.

Matrimony - the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.