Marriage Quotes: Inspiring Words on Love and Commitment

"There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place"

Helen Gahagan, Actress

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

Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher

"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, Dramatist

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

Mignon McLaughlin, Journalist

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

Groucho Marx, Comedian

"The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop"

John Updike, Novelist

"Marriage is the death of hope"

Woody Allen, Director

"Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory"

Abraham Lincoln, President

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

Thornton Wilder, Writer

"My own personal, moral, spiritual, religious, etc. beliefs don't oppose same-gender marriage"

Ed Case, Politician

"I think the Mother is gradually revealing itself to me and taking over. But it is not the Mother alone. It is the Mother and the Father, the male and the female, sort of gradually having their marriage"

Bede Griffiths, Clergyman

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

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"Marriage is an adventure, like going to war"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

"Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes"

J.B. Priestley, Writer

"There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them"

C. S. Lewis, Author

"As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent"

Socrates, Philosopher

"In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self"

William Penn, Leader

"Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night"

St. Jerome, Saint

"Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three"

Washington Irving, Writer

"Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry"

Rita Rudner, Comedian

"An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know"

Bette Davis, Actress

"The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day, but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife"

Barbara de Angelis, Writer

"Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day"

Barbara de Angelis, Writer

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

Joseph Joubert, Writer

"No person connected with me by blood or marriage will be appointed to office"

Rutherford B. Hayes, President

"A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one"

Queen Victoria, Royalty

"All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership"

Ann Landers, Journalist

"Marriage is overdone. As long as there are people, people are going to find it interesting"

Augusten Burroughs, Writer

"I think it's best if there's an amendment that goes on the ballot where the people can weigh in. Every time this issue has gone on the ballot, the people have voted to retain the traditional definition of marriage as recently as California in 2008"

Michele Bachmann, Politician

"Of all actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all actions of our life tis most meddled with by other people"

John Selden, Statesman

"When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient"

Voltaire, Writer

"Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce"

Voltaire, Writer

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