Famous Quotes, Quotation and Sayings

A great poet has seldom sung of lawfully wedded happiness, but of free and secret love; and in this respect, too the time is coming when there will no longer be one standard of morality for poetry and another for life. To anyone tender of conscience, the ties formed by a free connection are stronger than the legal ones. ☞ Ellen Key, quoted by Sprading in

Any married man should forget his mistakes – no use two people remembering the same thing. ☞ Duane Dewel

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

Then marriage may be said to be past in all quietnesse, when the wife is blind, and the husband deafe. ☞ Thomas Heywood

Come, let’s be a comfortable couple and take care of each other! How glad we shall be, that we have somebody we are fond of always, to talk to and sit with. ☞ Charles Dickens

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. ☞ Michel de Montaigne,

Getting married is a lot like getting into a tub of hot water. After you get used to it, it ain’t so hot. ☞ Minnie Pearl

Love is grand; divorce a hundred grand. ☞ Author Unknown

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time. ☞ Balzac,

A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors. ☞ Benjamin Franklin

And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living! ☞ Tertullian

The surest way to be alone is to get married. ☞ Gloria Steinem

[W]hen you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. ☞ Nora Ephron,

It’s a funny thing that when a man hasn’t anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married. ☞ Robert Frost

I never even believed in divorce until after I got married. ☞ Diane Ford

Adultery is the application of democracy to love. ☞ Henry Louis Mencken, "Sententiae,"

A dog is much like a married man, obeying his master’s voice for the sake of his master’s touch. ☞ Robert Brault

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

Marriage: A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other for ninety-nine years, or until death do them join. ☞ Elbert Hubbard

In the early years, you fight because you don’t understand each other. In the later years, you fight because you do. ☞ Joan Didion

Marriage isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be. Let me tell you, honestly. Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce. ☞ Larry Gelbart,

When a girl marries she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one. ☞ Helen Rowland

In the long run wives are to be paid in a peculiar coin – consideration for their feelings. As it usually turns out this is an enormous, unthinkable inflation few men will remit, or if they will, only with a sense of being overcharged. ☞ Elizabeth Hardwick,

Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won’t even lay down his newspaper to talk to you. ☞ Helen Rowland

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. ☞ Jean Kerr,

Marriage changes passion – suddenly you’re in bed with a relative. ☞ Author Unknown

It is not marriage that fails; it is people that fail. All that marriage does is to show people up. ☞ Harry Emerson Fosdick

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

One of the good things that come of a true marriage is, that there is one face on which changes come without your seeing them; or rather there is one face which you can still see the same, through all the shadows which years have gathered upon it. ☞ George MacDonald

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

Love seems the swiftest but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century. ☞ Mark Twain

Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you. ☞ Jean Rostand,

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

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part. ☞ G.B. Shaw,

A first-rate marriage is like a first-rate hotel: expensive, but worth it. ☞ Mignon McLaughlin,

Our wedding was many years ago. The celebration continues to this day. ☞ Gene Perret

Here’s to matrimony, the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented! ☞ Heinrich Heine

The reason for much matrimony is patrimony. ☞ Ogden Nash

I figure that the degree of difficulty in combining two lives ranks somewhere between rerouting a hurricane and finding a parking place in downtown Manhattan. ☞ Claire Cloninger

A man’s wife has more power over him than the state has. ☞ Ralph Waldo Emerson,

Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it. ☞ Friedrich Nietzsche

Three rings of marriage are the engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering. ☞ Author Unknown

Though marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves ‘em still two fools. ☞ William Congreve

Marriage ceremony: an incredible metaphysical sham of watching God and the law being dragged into the affairs of your family. ☞ O.C. Ogilvie

A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he’s finished. ☞ Zsa Zsa Gabor

One should never know too precisely whom one has married. ☞ Friedrich Nietzsche

Bigamy is having one husband or wife too many. Monogamy is the same. ☞ Oscar Wilde

Spouse: someone who’ll stand by you through all the trouble you wouldn’t have had if you’d stayed single. ☞ Author Unknown

Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. ☞ Author Unknown

Like good wine, marriage gets better with age – once you learn to keep a cork in it. ☞ Gene Perret

Marriage is a great institution, but I’m not ready for an institution. ☞ Mae West

My wife says I never listen to her. At least I think that’s what she said. ☞ Author Unknown

A wedding is just like a funeral except that you get to smell your own flowers. ☞ Grace Hansen

The view that a peptic ulcer may be the hole in a man’s stomach through which he crawls to escape from his wife has fairly wide acceptance. ☞ John Allan Dalrymple Anderson

Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner. ☞ Charles Caleb Colton

I’ve been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out. ☞ Lee Grant

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid. ☞ Harlan Miller

The man who never in his life Has washed the dishes with his wife Or polished up the silver plate - He still is largely celibate. ☞ Christopher Morley,

A love that lasts for twenty years may be better than love, but it isn’t love. ☞ Mignon McLaughlin,

God created sex. Priests created marriage. ☞ Voltaire

To avoid mistakes and regrets, always consult your wife before engaging in a flirtation. ☞ E.W. Howe

The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret. ☞ Henny Youngman

Marriage is a mistake every man should make. ☞ George Jessel

I guess walking slow getting married is because it gives you time to maybe change your mind. ☞ Virginia Cary Hudson,

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

My husband and I divorced over religious differences. He thought he was God, and I didn’t. ☞ Author Unknown

Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them. ☞ Ogden Nash