Famous Marriage Quotes

"A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband"

Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher

"Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?"

Groucho Marx, Comedian

"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person"

Mignon McLaughlin, Journalist

"If I love you, what business is it of yours?"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder"

Thornton Wilder, Writer

"For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward"

Erma Bombeck, Journalist

"All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner"

Red Skelton, Comedian

"Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats"

Woody Allen, Director

"Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage"

Sydney J. Harris, Journalist

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

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

"Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

"A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love"

Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher

"Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone"

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Philosopher

"Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him"

Marilyn Monroe, Actress

"One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again"

Judith Viorst, Author

"Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it"

Josh Billings, Comedian

"If you made a list of 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, Journalist

"A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it"

John Steinbeck, Author

"Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them"

Sydney Smith, Clergyman

"But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?"

Mary Astell, Writer

"There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends"

Homer, Poet

"Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then"

Katharine Hepburn, Actress

"If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married"

Katharine Hepburn, Actress

"Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage""

Herbert Spencer, Philosopher

"Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman"

Joseph Joubert, Writer

"Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands"

Jean Giraudoux, Dramatist

"Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences"

Isadora Duncan, Dancer

"She's been married so many times she has rice marks on her face"

Henny Youngman, Comedian

"Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means"

Henny Youngman, Comedian