Marriage Quotes

"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"

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

"Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps"

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

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

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

"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"

"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"

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

"Married couples who work together to build and maintain a business assume broad responsibilities. Not only is their work important to our local and national economies, but their success is central to the well-being of their families"

"There's nothing like a good cheating song to make me want to run home to be with my wife"

"Marriage is a financial contract; I have enough contracts already"

"Protecting the institution of marriage safeguards, I believe, the American family"

"By our Heavenly Father and only because of God, only because of God. We're like other couples. We do not get along perfectly; we do not go without arguments and, as I call them, fights, and heartache and pain and hurting each other. But a marriage is three of us"

"Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!"

"Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without"

"Daddy was real gentle with kids. That's why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant"

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

"Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest"

"I've had two proposals since I've been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a lot of money"

"The secret of a successful marriage is not to be at home too much"

"If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books"

"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"

"Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left"

"Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do"

"A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished"

"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"

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

"A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing"

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