Marriage Quotes

"To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties."

"Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives."

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

"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."

"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."

"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."

"It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being."

"It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness."

"Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage."

"Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner."

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

"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."

"Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them."

"No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married."

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

"They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake."

"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."

"Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage."

"Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. So each is inevitably disappointed."

"I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage."