Marriage Quotes

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
Abigail Adams

Men, Power, Remember

The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
A. P. Herbert

Anniversary, Together, Two

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

Men, Pain, Prepared

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
Honore de Balzac

Trying, Play, Majority

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
Michel de Montaigne

Desperate, Inside, Outside

The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.
Cyril Connolly

Health, Character, True

A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.
Eddie Cantor

Wedding, Flowers, Smell

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

Married, Until, House

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

Success, Great, Enough

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

Love, Getting, Married

Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.
Thornton Wilder

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
Andre Maurois

Happy, Long, Short

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

Wedding, Real, May

All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.
Raymond Hull

Happy, Together, Living

The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.
Jackie Kennedy

Love, Time, Money

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
Honore de Balzac

Everything, Monster, Contend

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

Human, Same, Nerves

A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.
Helen Rowland

Husband, After, Left

Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.
Alan King

Nature, Fighting, Strangers

Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth.
Edwin Louis Cole

May, Hell, Earth

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

Woman, Goes, Contract

Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps.
Joe Murray

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

Patience, Takes, Appreciate

Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
Billy Connolly

Wonderful, Again, Bicycle

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
Jane Austen

Happiness, Matter, Chance

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