Matrimony Quotes
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Marriage is like a beleaguered fortress; those who are without want to get in, and those within want to get out. (Quote by - Pierre-Marie Quitard)
In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk. (Quote by - Rita Rudner)
The first bond of society is marriage; the next, our children; then the whole family and all things in common. (Quote by - Cicero)
Man and wife are equally concerned, to avoid all offence of each other, in the beginning of their conversation. Every little thing can blast an infant blossom. (Quote by - Jeremy Taylor)
I don't want to describe the hate mail we've gotten. on why she was fearful of her husband running for president. (Quote by - Alma Powell)
O, Men's vows are women's traitors! All good seeming, By thy revolt, O husband, shall be thought Put on for villainy, not born where't grows, But worn a bait for ladies. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
That alliance may be said to have a double tie, where the minds are united as well as the body; and the union will have all its strength when both the links are in perfection together. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)
If you would have the nuptial union last, Let virtue be the bond that ties it fast. (Quote by - Nicholas Rowe)
To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it Whenever you're right, shut up. (Quote by - Ogden Nash)
From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt. (Quote by - Sir Walter Scott)
If you shall marry, You give away this hand, and this is mine; You give away heaven's vows, and those are mine; You give away myself, which is known mine; For I by vow am so embodied yours That she which marries you must marry me-- Either both or none. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Though fools spurn Hymen's gentle powers, We, who improve his golden hours, By sweet experience know That marriage rightly understood, Gives to the tender and the good A paradise below. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)
Marriage is a desperate thing. (Quote by - John Selden)
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success. (Quote by - James Gilmore Backus)
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day. (Quote by - Andre Maurois)
No jealousy their dawn of love o'ercast, Nor blasted were their wedded days with strife; Each season looked delightful as it past, To the fond husband and the faithful wife. (Quote by - James Beattie)
When a man and woman are married, their romance ceases and their history commences. (Quote by - Abbe de Rochebrune)
Such it is As are those dulcet sounds in break of day That creep into the dreaming bridegroom's ear And summon him to marriage. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Marriage is the best state for man in general; and every man is a worse man in proportion as he is unfit for the married state. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
She shall watch all night: And if she chance to nod I'll rail and brawl And with the clamour keep her still awake. This is the way to kill a wife with kindness. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
We've been together now for forty years, An' it don't seem a day too much; There ain't a lady livin' in the land As I'd swop for my dear old Dutch. (Quote by - Albert Chevalier)
Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. (Quote by - Bible)
Of course I don't always enjoy being a mother. At those times my husband and I hole up somewhere in the wine country, eat, drink, make mad love and pretend we were born sterile and raise poodles. (Quote by - Dorothy DeBolt)
So, with decorum all things carry'd; Miss frown'd, and blush'd, and then was--married. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)
Tough girl I'm almost single, my husband's on death row. (Quote by - Coming to America)
For years has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward. (Quote by - Bible)
Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony. (Quote by - Jane Austen)
O marriage! marriage! what a curse is thine, Where hands alone consent and hearts abhor. (Quote by - Aaron Hill)
Choose in marriage only a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man. (Quote by - Jeseph Joubert)
Men should keep their eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards. (Quote by - Mademoiselle Madeleine de Scuderi)
What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder; God will take care of that. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
But happy they, the happiest of their kind! Whom gentler stars unite, and in one fate Their Hearts, their Fortunes, and their Beings blend. (Quote by - James Thomson (1))
If thou wouldst marry wisely, marry thine equal. (Quote by - Ovid)
Beanie You think I like avoiding my wife and kids to hangout with nineteen year old girls everyday (Quote by - Old School)
She that weds well will wisely match her love, Nor be below her husband nor above. (Quote by - Ovid)
There's a bliss beyond all that the minstrel has told, When two, that are link'd in one heavenly tie, With heart never changing, and brow never cold, Love on thro' all ills, and love on till they die. (Quote by - Thomas Moore)
I am asham'd, that women are so simple To offer war, where they should kneel for peace Or seek for rule, supremacy, and sway, When they are bound to serve, love, and obey. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences. (Quote by - Dave Meurer)
To keep the fire burning brightly, there's one easy rule keep the two logs together, near enough to keep each other warm and far enough apart -- about a finger's breadth -- for breathing room. Good fire, good marriage, same rule. (Quote by - Marnie Reed Crowell)
As the husband is the wife is; thou art mated with a clown, As the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down. (Quote by - Lord Alfred Tennyson)
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility. (Quote by - George Levinger)
The gun lobby finds waiting periods inconvenient. You have only to ask my husband how inconvenient he finds his wheelchair from time to time. (Quote by - Sarah Brady)
For parents to restrain the inclinations of their children in marriage is an usurped power. (Quote by - Henry Fielding)
On marriage Look for a sweet person. Forget rich. (Quote by - Estee Lauder)
An occasional lucky guess as to what makes a wife tick is the best a man can hope for, Even then, no sooner has he learned how to cope with the tick than she tocks. (Quote by - Ogden Nash)
What are man and woman if not members of two very different and warring tribes Yet decade after decade, century after century, they attempt in marriage to reconcile and forge a union. Why I don't know. Biological imperative Divine law Or just a desire to connect to that mysterious other In any case, it's always struck me as a hopeful thing. (Quote by - Andrew Schneider)
To have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness, and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us do part. (Quote by - Book of Common Prayer)
There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again. (Quote by - Clint Eastwood)
It took great courage to ask a beautiful young woman to marry me. Believe me, it is easier to play the whole Petrushka on the piano. (Quote by - Arthur Rubinstein)
Some dish more sharply spiced than this Milk-soup men call domestic bliss. (Quote by - Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore)
When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into - matrimony. (Quote by - George Farquhar)
Within a month, Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, She married. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't. (Quote by - Sacha Guitry)
I will fasten on this sleeve of thine; Thou art an elm, my husband, I, a vine. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable metamorphosis, separated me from the day before. (Quote by - Sidonie Gabrielle Colette)
For a brave man deserves a well-endowed girl. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state. (Quote by - Kathleen Norris)
I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more. (Quote by - Candice Bergen)
Maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. (Quote by - Jane Austen)
'Tis my maxim, he's a fool that marries; but he's a greater that does not marry a fool. (Quote by - William Wycherley)
All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have a husband some day. (Quote by - Franklin P. Jones)
To disbelieve in marriage is easy: to love a married woman is easy; but to betray a comrade, to be disloyal to a host, to break the covenant of bread and salt, is impossible. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
My advice to you is get married if you find a good wife youll be happy if not, youll become a philosopher. (Quote by - Socrates)
To love, cherish, and to obey. (Quote by - Book Of Common Prayer)
Husbands and wives talk of the cares of matrimony, and bachelors and spinsters bear them. (Quote by - Wilkie Collins)
A good wife is like the ivy which beautifies the building to which it clings, twining its tendrils more lovingly as time converts the ancient edifice into a ruin. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
Lastly no woman should marry a teetotaller, or a man who does not smoke. It is not for nothing that this "ignoble tobagie" as Michelet calls it, spreads all over the world. (Quote by - Robert Louis Stevenson)
Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage. (Quote by - Sydney Harris)
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times. (Quote by - Rita Rudner)
To sit, happy married lovers; Phillis trifling with a plover's Egg, while Corydon uncovers with a grace the Sally Lunn, Or dissects the luck pheasant--that, I think, were passing pleasant As I sit along at present, dreaming darkly of a dun. (Quote by - Charles Stuart Calverley)
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage. (Quote by - Martin Luther)
Marriage, from love, like vinegar from wine-- A sad, sour sober beverage--by time Is sharpened from its high celestial flavor Down to a very homely household savor. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as would wear well. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives. (Quote by - Moliere)
Her gentle spirit commits itself to yours to be directed, as from her lord, her governor, her king. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often proves, the end. (Quote by - Alphonse Kerr)
I have met with women whom I really think would like to be married to a Poem, and to be given away by a Novel. (Quote by - John Keats (1))
America Where a man can say what he thinks, if he isn't afraid of his wife, his boss, his customer, his neighbors, or the government. (Quote by - Joe Moore)
One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul. (Quote by - Honore' de Balzac)
There are three rings in marriage. The engagement ring... The wedding ring... and the suffering. (Quote by - Trevor Rook)
My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked. (Quote by - Sir Winston Churchill)
He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
'Tis just like a summer bird cage in a garden; the birds that are without despair to get in, and the birds that are within despair, and are in a consumption, for fear they shall never get out. (Quote by - John Webster)
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
is not by any to be entered into unadvisedly or lightly; but reverently, discreetly, advisedly, soberly, and in the fear of God. (Quote by - Book Of Common Prayer)
For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward. (Quote by - Bible)
It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them. (Quote by - Sydney Smith)
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty. (Quote by - George Eliot)
To be man's tender mate was woman born, and in obeying nature she best serves the purposes of heaven. (Quote by - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller)
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. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid. (Quote by - Harlan Miller)
Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. (Quote by - Ken Dodd)
The fundamental error of their matrimonial union that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeling. (Quote by - Thomas Hardy)
Wedlock, indeed hath oft compared been To public feasts, where meet a public rout, Where they that are without would fain go in, And they that are within would fain go out. (Quote by - Sir John Davies)
For this reason, if you believe proverbs, let me tell you the common one: "It is unlucky to marry in May." (Quote by - Ovid)
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults. (Quote by - Peter De Vries)
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
The woman cries before the wedding and the man after. (Quote by - Polish Proverbs)
For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe... Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end. (Quote by - H. L. Mencken)
There is nothing more dread and more shameless than a woman who plans such deeds in her heart as the foul deed which she plotted when she contrived her husband's murder. (Quote by - Homer)
An unhappy gentleman, resolving to wed nothing short of perfection, keeps his heart and hand till both get so old and withered that no tolerable woman will accept them. (Quote by - Nathaniel Hawthorne)
True it is, as society is instituted, marriage becomes somewhat of a lottery, for all its votaries are either the victims of Cupid or cupidity; in either instance, they are under the blinding influence of passion, and consequently but little subject to the control of reason. (Quote by - Frederick Saunders)
Marriage must be a relation either sympathy or of conquest. (Quote by - George Eliot)
People are always asking couples whose marriage has endured at least a quarter of a century for their secret for success. Actually, it is no secret at all. I am a forgiving woman. Long ago, I forgave my husband for not being Paul Newman. (Quote by - Erma Bombeck)
The garlands fade, the vows are worn away; So dies her love, and so my hopes decay. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
A lady of 47 who has been married 27 years and has 6 children knows what love really is and once described it for me like this: "Love is what you've been through with somebody." (Quote by - James Thurber)
The instances that second marriage move Are base respects of thrift, but none of love. A second time I kill my husband dead When second husband kisses me in bed. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned So he that goeth in to his neighbor's wife whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent. (Quote by - Proverbs 627-9 Bible Hebrew)
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure, Marry'd in haste, we may repent at leisure. (Quote by - William Congreve)
There cannot be any great happiness in the married life except each in turn give up his or her own humors and lesser inclinations. (Quote by - Samuel Richardson)
Widowed life and wedded maid. (Quote by - Sir Walter Scott)
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Up to twenty-one, I hold a father to have power over his children as to marriage; after that age, authority and influence only. Show me one couple unhappy merely on account of their limited circumstances, and I will show you ten who are wretched from other causes. (Quote by - Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
It is hard to wive and thrive both in a year. (Quote by - Lord Alfred Tennyson)
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly. (Quote by - Peter De Vries)
Expect nothing at all and accept as a joyful surprise whatever good you find in matrimony. (Quote by - Frank Leslie)
The joys of marriage are the heaven on earth, Life's paradise, great princess, the soul's quiet, Sinews of concord, earthly immortality, Eternity of pleasures. (Quote by - John Ford)
'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion. (Quote by - Richard Brinsley Sheridan)
Will you not suffer me? Nay, now I see She is your treasure, she must have a husband; I must dance barefoot on her wedding-day, And for your love to her lead apes in hell. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
No, the world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
What woman, however old, has not the bridal-favours and raiment stowed away, and packed in lavender, in the inmost cupboards of her heart? (Quote by - William Makepeace Thackeray)
A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possibility that the other may be right, though neither believes it. (Quote by - Don Fraser)
Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom. (Quote by - Karl Kraus)
He that marries is like the dogs who was married to the Adriatic. He knows not what there is in that which he marries; mayhap treasures and pearls, mayhap monsters and tempests, await him. (Quote by - Heinrich Heine)
Celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits along, and is confined and dies in singularity. (Quote by - Jeremy Taylor)
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is. (Quote by - George Santayana)
If she deny to wed I'll crave the day When I shall ask the banns, and when be married. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
When Rick told me he was having trouble with his wife, I had to laugh. Not because of what he said, but because of a joke I thought of. I told him the joke, but he didn't laugh very much. Some friend HE is. (Quote by - Jack Handey)
Marriages are best of dissimilar material. (Quote by - Theodore Parker)
Wedlock's a saucy, sad, familiar state, Where folks are very apt to scold and hate:-- Love keeps a modest distance, is divine, Obliging, and says ev'ry thing that's fine. (Quote by - Peter Pindar)
Marriages on earth--because they are the seminaries of the human race and of the angels of heaven also; because, likewise, they proceed from a spiritual origin, that is, from the marriage of good and truth; and since, in addition, the Lord's divine proceeding principally flows into conjugal love--are most holy in the estimation of the angels. (Quote by - Emanuel Swedenborg)
And the Lord God said, It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. (Quote by - Bible)
Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain. (Quote by - Euripides)
A time, methinks, too short To make a world-without-end bargain in. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
They that marry ancient people, merely in expectation to bury them, hang themselves, in hope that one will come and cut the halter. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller (1))
Say 'a day,' without the 'ever.' No, no, Orlando; men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
A man's wife has more power over him than the state has. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
There are good marriages, but there are no delightful ones. (Quote by - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld)
It is a lovely thing to have a husband and wife developing together and having the feeling of falling in love again. That is what marriage really means helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life. (Quote by - Paul Tournier)
If I had to live my life over again, I would have a different father, a different wife and a different religion. (Quote by - John F. Kennedy)
What's the difference between a boyfriend and a husband About 30 pounds. (Quote by - Cindy Gardner)
As a looking-glass, if it is a true one, faithfully represents the face of him that looks in it, so a wife ought to fashion herself to the affection of her husband, not to be cheerful when he is sad, nor sad when he is cheerful. (Quote by - Desiderius Gerhard Erasmus)
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate. (Quote by - Barnett Brickner)
With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly goods I thee endow. (Quote by - Book of Common Prayer)
Therefore God's universal law Gave to the man despotic power Over his female in due awe, Not from that right to part an hour, Smile she or lour. (Quote by - John Milton)
From that day forth, in peace and joyous bliss They liv'd together long without debate; Nor private jars, nor spite of enemies, Could shake the safe assurance of their state. (Quote by - Edmund Spenser)
The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages. (Quote by - Jonathan Swift)
At length cried she, I'll marry: What should I tarry for? I may lead aped in hell forever. (Quote by - Charles Dibdin)
Hasty marriage seldom proveth well. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Wedlock's a lane where there is no turning. (Quote by - Dinah Maria Mulock)
Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you. (Quote by - Helen Rowland)
The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation. (Quote by - Pope John Paul II)
I'd rather die Maid, and lead apes in Hell Than wed an inmate of Silenus' Cell. (Quote by - Richard Braithwait)
The laws that Charondas gave to Catana,... A man might divorce his wife, or a wife her husband, said Charondas, but then he or she must not marry anyone younger than the divorced mate. (Quote by - Will Durant)
It happens as one sees in cages: the birds which are outside despair of ever getting in, and those within are equally desirous of getting out. (Quote by - Michel Eyquem de Montaigne)
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. (Quote by - Johann von Goethe)
Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere. (Quote by - Julius Henry Marx)
It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be wiity every day than to say pretty things from time to time. (Quote by - Honore' de Balzac)
We must respect the other fellow's religion,but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. (Quote by - H. L. Mencken)
A young man married is a man that's marred. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Let husbands know Their wives have sense like them. They see, and smell, And have their palates both for sweet and sour, As husbands have. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames. (Quote by - Sir Thomas More)
At least she's the president of something, which is more than I can say. (Quote by - Robert Joseph Bob Dole)
On the breakup of Harrison Ford's first marriage It wasn't because he became a star. In all relationships there are changes and the point is both partners have to change together. (Quote by - Walter Beakel)
For talk six times with the same single lady, And you may get the wedding dress ready. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
There was no great disparity of years, Though much in temper; but they never clash'd, They moved like stars united in their spheres, Or like the Rhone by Leman's waters wash'd, Where mingled and yet separate appears The river from the lake, all bluely dash'd Through the serene and placid glassy deep, Which fain would lull its river-child to sleep. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
Hearts with equal love combined kindle never-dying fires. (Quote by - Thomas Carew)
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. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.)
In marriage, being the right person is as important as finding the right person. (Quote by - Wilbert Donald Gough)
One man's folly is another man's wife. (Quote by - Helen Rowland)
Here love his golden shafts employs, here lights His constant lamp, and waves his purple wings, Reigns here and revels. (Quote by - John Milton)
A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it. (Quote by - Anne Morrow Lindbergh)
My toughest fight was with my first wife. (Quote by - Muhammad Ali)
'Cause grace and virtue are within Prohibited degrees of kin; And therefore no true saint allows, They shall be suffer'd to espouse. (Quote by - Samuel Butler (1))
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year. (Quote by - Paul Sweeney)
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years. (Quote by - Robert Oxton Bolt)
Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Matrimony is not by any to be entered into unadvisedly or lightly; but reverently, discreetly, advisedly, soberly, and in the fear of God. (Quote by - Book of Common Prayer)
I never married. Nobody ever asked me. (Quote by - Mattie White, on her 100th birthday)
The Italians have this proverb: In buying houses and taking a wife, shut your eyes and commend yourself to God. (Quote by - Charles Pineau Duclos)
The bloom or blight of all men's happiness. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
Two consorts in heaven are not two, but one angel. (Quote by - Emanuel Swedenborg)
I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person. (Quote by - Jane Austen)
So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance. (Quote by - Isadora Duncan)
No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed. (Quote by - Harold MacMillan)
You are of the society of the wits and railers; . . . the surest sign is, you are an enemy to marriage, the common butt of every railer. (Quote by - David Garrick)
To love early and marry late is to hear a lark singing at dawn, and at night to eat it roasted for supper. (Quote by - Jean Paul Friedrich Richter)
There swims no goose so gray, but soon or late She finds some honest gander for her mate. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed. (Quote by - Amanda Cross)
After a heated argument on some trivial matter Nancy Astor . shouted, If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee Whereupon Winston Churchill answered, And if I were your husband I would drink it. (Quote by - John Fellows Akers)
Sure the shovel and tongs To each other belongs. (Quote by - Samuel Lover)
Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the marriage state. Look not therein for contentment greater than God will give, or a creature in this world can receive, namely, to be free from all inconveniences. Marriage is not, like the hill of Olympus, wholly clear without clouds. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller (1))
There is no greater excitement than to support an intellectual wife and have her support you. Marriage is a partnership in which each inspires the other, and brings fruition to both of you. (Quote by - Millicent Carey McIntosh)
She's not well married that lived married long, But she's best married that dies married young. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Body and soul, like peevish man and wife, United jar, and yet are loth to part. (Quote by - Edward Young)
And, to all married men, be this a caution, Which they should duly tender as their life, Neither to doat too much, nor doubt a wife. (Quote by - Philip Massinger)
Beanie I have a wife and kids. Do I seem like a happy guy to you, Frank (Quote by - Old School)
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. (Quote by - Sacha Guitry)
Yet while my Hector still survives, I see My father, mother, brethren, all in thee. (Quote by - Homer)
Spouses often point out each other's deficiencies. Instead, we should be each other's motivator. My husband touches my spirit, and I try my best to motivate him, too. (Quote by - Kenneth Hartley Blanchard)
I tended to place my wife under a pedestal. (Quote by - Woody Allen)
In the choice of a horse and a wife, a man must please himself, ignoring the opinion and advice of friends. (Quote by - George John Whyte-Melville)
What is a husband He is the one who, with a touch, can bring back the starlight and glow of years long ago. At least he hopes he can-don't disappoint him. (Quote by - Alan Marshall Beck)
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on earth. (Quote by - John Lyly)
When marrying, ask yourself this question Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age Everything else in marriage is transitory. (Quote by - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)
Like the old motto of a famous Sunday paper, 'All human life was there' in the stately circle of the Mountbatten-Windsors, as the family coped in semipublic with those everlasting elements of human interest-sickness, scandal, family tension and divorce. (Quote by - John Pearson)
Man and wife, Coupled together for the sake of strife. (Quote by - Charles Churchill)
By all means marry if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. (Quote by - Socrates)
Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
However old a conjugal union, it still garners some sweetness. Winter has some cloudless days, and under the snow a few flowers still bloom. (Quote by - Madame de Stael)
Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder. (Quote by - Jonathan Swift)
A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride. (Quote by - Clive Staples Lewis)
I believe marriages would in general be as happy, and often more so, if they were all made by the lord chancellor, upon a due consideration of the characters and circumstances, without the parties having any choice in the matter. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits. (Quote by - John Gay)
Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats. (Quote by - Woody Allen)
Before I trust my Fate to thee, Or place my hand in thine, Before I let thy Future give Color and form to mine, Before I peril all for thee, Question thy soul to-night for me. (Quote by - Adelaide Anne Procter)
The man who didn't want his wife to work has been succeeded by the man who asks about her chances of getting a raise. (Quote by - Earl Wilson)
Kindness is the life's blood, the elixir of marriage. Kindness makes the difference between passion and caring. Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than love ... Kindness is good will. Kindness says, 'I want you to be happy.' Kindness comes very close to the benevolence of God. (Quote by - Randolph Ray)
Marriage is destinie, made in heaven. (Quote by - John Lyly)
A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table. (Quote by - Jean Kerr)
Ah Mozart He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. (Quote by - Victor Borge)
I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back. (Quote by - Henny Youngman)
If you've got to resist, you're chances of being hurt are less the more lethal your weapon. If that were my wife, would I want her to have a .38 Special in her hand Yeah. (Quote by - Dr. Arthur Kellerman)
The wedlock of minds will be greater than that of bodies. (Quote by - Desiderius Gerhard Erasmus)
It is the most momentous question a woman is ever called upon to decide, whether the faults of the man she loves are beyond remedy and will drag her down, or whether she is competent to be his earthly redeemer and lift him to her own level. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.)
My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head. (Quote by - Rita Rudner)
One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.... (Quote by - Robert Whitney Boynton)
That is what marriage really means helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life. (Quote by - Paul Tournier)
No book has yet been written in praise of a woman who let her husband and children starve or suffer while she invented even the most useful things, or wrote books, or expressed herself in art, or evolved philosophic systems. (Quote by - Anna Garlin Spencer)
Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course. (Quote by - Helen Rowland)
Drink, my jolly lads, drink with discerning, Wedlock's a lane where there is no turning; Never was owl more blind than a lover, Drink and be merry, lads, half seas over. (Quote by - Dinah Maria Mulock)
The critical period in matrimony is breakfast-time. (Quote by - Alan Patrick Herbert)
All of a tenor was their after-life, No day discolor'd with domestic strife; No jealousy, but mutual truth believed, Secure repose, and kindness undeceiv'd. (Quote by - John Dryden)
Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
As unto the bow the cord is, So unto the man is woman; Though she bends him she obeys him, Though she draws him, yet she follows, Useless each without the other! (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Matrimony,--the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented. (Quote by - Heinrich Heine)
If you go to a costume party at your boss's house, wouldn't you think a good costume would be to dress up like the boss's wife Trust me, it's not. (Quote by - Jack Handey)
The happy married man dies in good stile at home, surrounded by his weeping wife and children. The old bachelor don't die at all--he sort of rots away, like a pollywog's tail. (Quote by - Artemus Ward)
Misses! the tale that I relate This lesson seems to carry-- Choose not alone a proper mate, But proper time to marry. (Quote by - William Cowper)
Across the threshold led, And every tear kissed off as soon as shed, His house she enters, there to be a light, Shining within, when all without is night; A guardian angel o'er his life presiding, Doubling his pleasures, and his cares dividing! (Quote by - Samuel Rogers)
Look down, you gods, And on this couple drop a blessed crown. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Take heede, Camilla, that seeking al the Woode for a streight sticke, you chuse not at the last a crooked staffe. (Quote by - John Lyly)
I will marry her, sir, at your request; but if there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decease it upon better acquaintance when we are married and have more occasion to know one another. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
It is a delightful thought, that, during the familiarity of constant proximity, the heart gathers up in silence the nutriment of love, as the diamond, even beneath water, imbibes the light it emits. Time, which deadens hatred, secretly strengthens love. (Quote by - Jean Paul Friedrich Richter)
And in conclusion she shall watch all night, And if she chance to nod I'll rail and brawl And with the clamor keep her still awake. This is a way to kill a wife with kindness, And thus I'll curb her mad and headstrong humor. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
A bachelor May thrive by observation on a little, A single life's no burthen: but to draw In yokes is chargeable, and will require A double maintenance. (Quote by - John Ford)
Matrimony is a process by which a grocer acquired an account the florist had. (Quote by - Frances Rodman)
It is in vain for a man to be born fortunate, if he be unfortunate in his marriage. (Quote by - Andre Dacier)
A woman needs a stronger head than her own for counsel--she should marry. (Quote by - Pedro Calderon de la Barca)
Don't stay long when the husband is not at home. (Quote by - Japanese Proverbs)
You should indeed have longer tarried By the roadside before you married. (Quote by - Walter Savage Landor)
Middle age is the time of life that a man first notices in his wife. (Quote by - Richard Willard Armour)
The moment a woman marries, some terrible revolution happens in her system; all her good qualities vanish, presto, like eggs out of a conjuror's box. 'Tis true that they appear on the other side of the box, but for the husband they are gone forever. (Quote by - William Henry Lytton Earle Bulwer)
Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred. (Quote by - William Orville Douglas)
There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony. (Quote by - Anthony Trollope)
A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. (Quote by - Helen Rowland)
My wife is a light eater ... as soon as it's light, she starts to eat. (Quote by - Henny Youngman)
Strong are the instincts with which God has guarded the sacredness of marriage. (Quote by - Maria Jane M'Intosh)
Oh! how many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring. (Quote by - Charles Churchill)
Divorce is the sacrament of adultery. (Quote by - G.F. Guichard)
Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president' s spouse. I wish him well (Quote by - Barbara Bush)
Remember, it is as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman. (Quote by - William Makepeace Thackeray)
Thrice happy is that humble pair, Beneath the level of all care! Over whose heads those arrows fly Of sad distrust and jealousy. (Quote by - Edmund Waller)
One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of love with him, or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you maybe fall in love again. (Quote by - Judith Viorst)
House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the Lord. (Quote by - Bible)
Thou are mine, thou hast given thy word, Close, close in my arms thou are clinging; Alone for my ear thou art singing A song which no stranger hath heard: But afar from me yet, like a bird, Thy soul in some region unstirr'd On its mystical circuit is winging. (Quote by - Edmund Clarence Stedman)
I must, forsooth, be forced To give my hand opposed against my heart Unto a mad-brain rudesby, full of spleen, Who wooed in haste and means to wed at leisure. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
She is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar and the rocks pure gold. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Are we not one? are we not join'd by heav'n? Each interwoven with the other's fate? Are we not mix'd like streams of meeting rivers Whose blended waters are no more distinguish'd, But roll into the sea one common flood? (Quote by - Nicholas Rowe)
A second wife is hateful to the children of the first a viper is not more hateful. (Quote by - Euripides)
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me. (Quote by - Charles Churchill)
Such a large sweet fruit is a complete marriage, that it needs a very long summer to ripen in and then a long winter to mellow and season it. (Quote by - Theodore Parker)
Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife. (Quote by - Euripides)
The first lady is, and always has been, an unpaid public servant elected by one person, her husband. (Quote by - Claudia Alta Taylor Johnson)
Marriage is like life in this--that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses. (Quote by - Robert Louis Stevenson)
The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters. (Quote by - Sir Harold George Nicolson)
I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste. (Quote by - David Bissonette)
Marriage and hanging go by destiny; matches are made in heaven. (Quote by - Robert Burton)
I used to think of all the billions of people in the world, and of all those people, how was I going to meet the right ones The right ones to be my friends, the right one to be my husband. Now I just believe you meet the people you're supposed to meet. (Quote by - Andrew Schneider)
He that takes a wife takes care. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee. (Quote by - Anne Bradstreet)
On the touchstone of misfortune a man discovers the strength of understanding and of spirit in kinsmen, wife, servants, and himself. (Quote by - The Hitopadesa)
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. (Quote by - Homer)
What is wedlock forced, but a hell, An age of discord and continual strife? Whereas the contrary bringeth forth bliss, And is a pattern of celestial peace. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Ay, marriage is the life-long miracle, The self-begetting wonder, daily fresh. (Quote by - Charles Kingsley)
I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
It is to be feared that they who marry where they do not love will love where they do not marry. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller (1))
Accident counts for much in companionship, as in marriage. (Quote by - Henry Adams)
Wayne Garth, marriage is punishment for shoplifting in some countries. (Quote by - Wayne's World)
An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. (Quote by - Agatha Christie)
You till be glad to know the President is practicing safe snacks. in reference to her husband's fainting spell caused by a pretzel (Quote by - Laura Bush)
If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police. (Quote by - Robert Louis Stevenson)
I believe in the institution of marriage and I intend to keep trying until I get it right. (Quote by - Richard Pryor)
Marriages would in general be as happy, if not more so, if they were all made by the Lord Chancellor. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
The roses, the lovely notes, the dining and dancing are all welcome and splendid. But when the Godiva is gone, the gift of real love is having someone who'll go the distance with you. Someone who, when the wedding day limo breaks down, is willing to share a seat on the bus. (Quote by - Oprah Winfrey)
He that said it was not good for man to be alone, placed the celibate amongst the inferior states of perfection. (Quote by - Robert Boyle)
As a great part of the uneasiness of matrimony arises from mere trifles,, it would be wise in every young married man to enter into an agreement with his wife, that in all disputes of this kind the party who was most convinced they were right should always surrender the victory. By which means both would be more forward to give up the cause. (Quote by - Henry Fielding)
Women when they marry buy a cat in the bag. (Quote by - Michel Eyquem de Montaigne)
If people only made prudent marriages, what a stop to population there would be! (Quote by - William Makepeace Thackeray)
A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing. (Quote by - Joey Adams)
Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
You can't divorce religious belief and public service ... I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other. (Quote by - James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.)
It goes far towards reconciling me to being a woman, when I reflect that I am thus in no danger of ever marrying one. (Quote by - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu)
A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love. (Quote by - Pearl Buck)
I have given two cousins to war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother. (Quote by - Artemus Ward)
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)
Each of us owes it to our spouse, our children, our friends, to be as happy as we can be. And if you don't believe me, ask a child what it's like to grow up with an unhappy parent, or ask parents what they suffer if they have an unhappy child. (Quote by - Dennis Prager)
There are three great friends an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
It is a mistake to consider marriage merely as a scheme of happiness. It is also a bond of service. It is the most ancient form of that social ministration which God has ordained for all human beings, and which is symbolized by all the relations of nature. (Quote by - Edwin Hubbell Chapin)
It marriage happens as with cages the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to getting out. (Quote by - D. A. Battista)
