Quotes about marriage

"A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes."

Addison, Joseph on marriage   

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"When a match has equal partners then I fear not."

Aeschylus on marriage
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"Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed."

Akhtar, Hoshang N. on marriage   

"When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!"

Alexander, Shana on marriage   

"If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path."

Allen, Marty on marriage   

"The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep.."

Allen, Woody on marriage
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"Marriage is the death of hope."

Allen, Woody on marriage
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"To marry unequally is to suffer equally."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on marriage   

"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."

Angelis, Barbara De on marriage
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"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."

Angelis, Barbara De on marriage
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"Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal."

Anspacher, Louis K. on marriage
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"To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone."

Asquith, Margot on marriage   

"I married beneath me. All women do."

Astor, Lady Nancy on marriage   

"Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate."

Auden, W. H. on marriage
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"It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage."

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

Austen, Jane on marriage
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"Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."

Bacon, Francis on marriage   

"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."

Bagnold, Enid on marriage
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"A woman must be a genius to create a good husband."

Balzac, Honore De on marriage   

"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, Honore De on marriage
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"I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom."

Barrymore, John on marriage   

"Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up."

Barth, Joseph on marriage
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"Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it."

Baskins on marriage   

"Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings."

Baum, Vicki on marriage   

"The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence."

Beauvoir, Simone De on marriage
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"How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering."

Beecher, Catharine Esther on marriage   

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

Beecher, Henry Ward on marriage   

"Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you."

Bennett, Jill on marriage
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"Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]"

Bible on marriage
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"Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]"

Bible on marriage
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"For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]"

Bible on marriage   

"Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord."

Bible on marriage   

"Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]"

Bible on marriage   

"Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination."

Bierce, Ambrose on marriage   

"The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity."

Bierce, Ambrose on marriage   

"Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two."

Bierce, Ambrose on marriage   

"As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them."

Billings, Josh on marriage   

"The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day."

Bolitho, William on marriage   

"When you get married you forget about kissing other women."

Boone, Pat on marriage
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"Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash."

Brothers, Dr. Joyce on marriage
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