Quotes about marriage

"Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank."

Bruyere, Jean De La on marriage   

"I hate work. That's why I got married."

Bundy, Peg on marriage   

"The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong."

Bunker, Archie on marriage
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"The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch. Love comes into it too, of course, but in Europe we tend to see marital love as an eternity which encompasses hate and also indifference: when we promise to love we really mean that we promise to honor a contract. Americans, seeming to take marriage with not enough seriousness, are really taking love and sex with too much."

Burgess, Anthony on marriage   

"One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague."

Burton, Robert on marriage   

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"I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up."

Bush, Barbara on marriage   

"Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil."

Byron, Lord on marriage   

"All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage."

Byron, Lord on marriage
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"I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all."

Byron, Lord on marriage   

"Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other."

Cahn, Sammy on marriage   

"The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge."

Campbell, Mrs Patrick on marriage   

"If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam."

Carson, Johnny on marriage   

"A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband."

Cartland, Barbara on marriage   

"There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear."

Chatterton, Thomas on marriage   

"Marriage is an adventure, like going to war."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on marriage
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"There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button."

Chopin, Daniel on marriage   

"Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent."

Clarke, W. A. on marriage
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"The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on marriage   

"Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried."

Colton, Charles Caleb on marriage   

"Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure."

Congreve, William on marriage
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"Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union."

Connolly, Cyril on marriage   

"The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married."

Connolly, Cyril on marriage
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"I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night."

Corelli, Marie on marriage
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"Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest."

Cory, Irwin on marriage   

"That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked."

Cosby, Bill on marriage
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"I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again."

Coward, Noel on marriage
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"Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give."

Daley, Cass on marriage   

"My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!"

Dangerfield, Rodney on marriage   

"My wife is always trying to get rid of me. The other day she told me to put the garbage out. I said to her I already did. She told me to go and keep an eye on it."

Dangerfield, Rodney on marriage   

"I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year."

Davis, Bette on marriage   

"I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work."

Diana, Princess of Wales on marriage
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"When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste."

Dickens, Charles on marriage
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"Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight."

Diller, Phyllis on marriage
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"It destroys one's nerve to be amiable every day to the same human being."

Disraeli, Benjamin on marriage
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"I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them."

Dobson, Dr. James C. on marriage
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"So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance."

Duncan, Isadora on marriage   

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

Duncan, Isadora on marriage   

"Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning."

Dupuy, Alexis on marriage
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"Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership."

Dworkin, Andrea on marriage   

"Marriage is socialism among two people."

Ehrenreich, Barbara on marriage
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