Famous Marriage Quotes

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

H. L. Mencken, Writer

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

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

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

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, 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

"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

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

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

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

Thornton Wilder, Writer

"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

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

Groucho Marx, Comedian

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

Jean Giraudoux, Dramatist

"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

"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

"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

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

John Steinbeck, Author

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

Herbert Spencer, Philosopher

"Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives"

Samuel Johnson, Author

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

Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher

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

Red Skelton, Comedian

"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

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

Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher

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

Joe Murray, Artist

"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

"In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring"

Enid Bagnold, Author

"In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage"

Robert Anderson, Soldier

"Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose"

Beverley Nichols, Writer

"Marriage is a mistake every man should make"

George Jessel, Judge

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

Ruth Rendell, Writer

"The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married"

Finley Peter Dunne, Journalist

"Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive"

Antisthenes, Philosopher

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

James C. Dobson, Psychologist

"Caesar might have married Cleopatra, but he had a wife at home. There's always something"

Will Cuppy, Writer

"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"

Barbara Mandrell, Musician

"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"

Loretta Lynn, Musician

"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

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

Patrice Leconte, Director

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

Mignon McLaughlin, Journalist

"A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers"

Eddie Cantor, 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

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