Quotes about marriage

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

— Samuel Johnson

Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says "What would I do without you?" is already destroyed.

— Germaine Greer

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

— Ogden Nash

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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

— Isadora Duncan

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

— Thornton Wilder

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

— Johnny Carson

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.

— Erica Jong

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

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

— Zsa Zsa Gabor

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.

— Ann Landers

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

— Robert Frost

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt.

— Edna Ferber

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

— George Bernard Shaw