Quotes about marriage

"She is a wife who is the soul of her husband."

Hitopadesa on marriage   

"I should like to see any kind of a man, distinguishable from a gorilla that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on marriage   

"There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends."

Homer on marriage
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"Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it."

Hubbard, Elbert on marriage   

"All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems."

Hull, Raymond on marriage
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"Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it."

Hunt, Morton on marriage   

"A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin."

Ibsen, Henrik on marriage   

"Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three."

Irving, Washington on marriage   

"Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there."

Jackson, Andrew on marriage   

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"Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass."

Jerrold, Douglas William on marriage   

"Marriage is a mistake every man should make."

Jessel, George on marriage
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"Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church."

John Paul II on marriage   

"By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time."

Johnson, Samuel on marriage   

"It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination."

Johnson, Samuel on marriage   

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"Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage."

Johnson, Samuel on marriage
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"There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman."

Johnson, Samuel on marriage   

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"Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures."

Johnson, Samuel on marriage   

"Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same."

Jong, Erica on marriage   

"There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier."

Jong, Erica on marriage   

"I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late."

Kauffman, Max on marriage   

"Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house."

Kerr, Jean on marriage   

"Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love."

Key, Ellen on marriage
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"Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable."

Kierkegaard, Søren on marriage   

"I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years."

Kinison, Sam on marriage   

"Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose."

Knowles, F. M. on marriage   

"Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom."

Kraus, Karl on marriage
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"Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset."

Landers, Ann on marriage   

"All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest --never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership."

Landers, Ann on marriage
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"My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect."

Lawrence, D. H. on marriage   

"Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy."

Layton, Irving on marriage   

"Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl."

Leacock, Stephen B. on marriage   

"Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip."

Lennon, John on marriage   

"There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them."

Lewis, C. S. on marriage
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"Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory."

Lincoln, Abraham on marriage
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"I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me."

Lincoln, Abraham on marriage   

"There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage."

Luther, Martin on marriage
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"Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave."

Luther, Martin on marriage
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"Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth."

Lyly, John on marriage   

"The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast."

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia on marriage
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"The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so."

Martineau, Harriet on marriage