Quotes About Marriage

Science has made many advances in my lifetime, but the instrument has yet to be invented that can see clearly into the marriage of a man and a woman.

If you haven't seen your wife smile at a traffic cop, you haven't seen her smile her prettiest.

The understanding smile of an old wife to her husband is one of the loveliest things in the world.

He set the suitcases in the back then tossed her the keys. "You drive." She repressed a smile as she climbed behind the wheel. "With each passing day, your reasons for wanting a wife become clearer.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Our society teaches a woman at a certain age who is unmarried to see it as a deep personal failure. While a man at a certain age who is unmarried has not quite come around to making his pick.

I'd like to see marriage count again among African-Americans and not just in the society in general.

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

A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he's finished.

I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.

A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he is finished.

Husbands are like fires - they go out when unattended.

Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.

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

Personally, I know nothing about sex, because I have always been married.

Having been engaged rather a lot of times, Zsa Zsa Gabor was asked whether a lady should give back the ring. Her answer? "Of course dahlink, but first, you take out all the diamonds.

How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own?

The manners that apply specifically during courtship come to be replaced over the course of marriage by a different set of manners, embodying the residual pettiness, complaining, and faultfinding of childhood.

In evaluating your relationship, you will find it useful to keep in mind your goals in marriage and how you can best achieve them. As a guide, I have listed what I regard as the aims for an ideal marriage.

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.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

But the marriage remained miserable. Marie-Henriette fled the royal château of Laeken to go horseback riding for most of each day.

It is to do with John Overall's lust. The poor man, who was forty-four in 1604, found it easier, he told his friends, to preach in Latin, which he had studied so hard and so long, and that he found it 'troublesome to speak English as a continued oration'. Despite (or perhaps because of?) that rather unworldly removal from everyday discourse, the dean fell in love with and married the sexiest girl in London. Anne Orwell was irresistible:

A young widow with four or five young children, who, among the middling or inferior ranks of people in Europe, would have so little chance for a second husband, is there frequently courted as a sort of fortune. The value of children is the greatest of all encouragements to marriage. We cannot, therefore, wonder that the people in North America should generally marry very young.