Quotes about marriage

"That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds."

Updike, John on marriage   

"I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce."

Vass, Susan on marriage   

"A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one."

Victoria, Queen on marriage   

"Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can."

Victoria, Queen on marriage   

"I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness."

Victoria, Queen on marriage   

"Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly."

Voltaire on marriage   

"The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly."

Vries, Peter De on marriage
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"The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults."

Vries, Peter De on marriage
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"The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character."

Vries, Peter De on marriage   

"To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love."

Webb, Mary on marriage   

"Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution."

West, Mae on marriage   

"It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men."

West, Mae on marriage
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"I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie."

Wharton, Edith on marriage   

"When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs."

Wilde, Oscar on marriage
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"Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin, but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building."

Wilde, Oscar on marriage
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"They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins."

Wilde, Oscar on marriage   

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"On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners."

Wilde, Oscar on marriage   

"Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed."

Wilde, Oscar on marriage
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"Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable."

Wilde, Oscar on marriage   

"The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so."

Wilder, Thornton on marriage   

"Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder."

Wilder, Thornton on marriage   

"Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo."

Willis, Bruce on marriage   

"This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt."

Wilson, Earl on marriage   

"I was so cold the other day, I almost got married."

Winters, Shelley on marriage   

"In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems."

Winters, Shelley on marriage   

"Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse."

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville) on marriage   

"Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before."

Wycherley, William on marriage   

"Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community."

Young, Brigham on marriage   

"Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side."

Ziglar, Zig on marriage
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"Marriage used to be bondage and still is in some places. That's disconcerting."

Dye, James on marriage   

"Marriage is NOT about HAVING another person. Marriage is about GIVING ONESELF to another person."

Parslow, Eric on marriage   

"A man stays in touch with society by means of a wife."

Lipsey, Michael on marriage   

"It’s a straightforward matter of equality: it’s outrageously unfair that heterosexuals shoulder alone the burden of keeping divorce lawyers in Italian sports cars"

Simpson, Mark on marriage   

"Marriage is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and passion"

Mocca, William on marriage