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Quotes About Marriage

Sometimes what is most important to us is not obvious and can be seen only by how we respond to our husbands in everyday life.
~ Linda Dillow
I have a son, and I was married for twenty years, and I got divorced, and there's a new woman in my life, and my son is 18, and I'm interested to see how he's growing.
~ Gary Kraftsow
Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman.
~ Robertson Davies
My wife, who, poor wretch, is troubled with her lonely life.
~ Samuel Pepys
How you end something as profound and important as a marriage is a reflection of how you live your life--financially, emotionally, and spiritually.
~ Suze Orman
A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles.
~ Thomas Sprat
It makes my wife mad, you know, she wants me to stay home all the time. But its what I've done all my life and I think when I quit doing it I'll probably go away pretty quick.
~ Merle Haggard
But then, you know, I'm very happy, I've got to this stage in my life and I'm not dead. I haven't got married and divorced and done all that palimony business, you know all that mess.
~ Michael Hutchence
Broken marriages, conflicts of loyalty, the problems of everyday life fall away as one faces up to [Jeff] Thomson.
~ Mike Brearley
I was afraid of marriage. I had the impression married life would take up all my time. I saw myself drowning in visits and parties. No freedom.
~ Naguib Mahfouz
Chumps always make the best husbands. All the unhappy marriages come from the husbands having brains.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
Every American bride is taken there [Niagara Falls], and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.
~ Oscar Wilde
Because I am female, I'm expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important.
~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The reason why you date people is to get to know who you're gonna marry and spend the rest of your life with
~ David Archuleta
Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.
~ Franz Kafka
The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I've been perfectly happily married for 25 years, and have a nice life. Inane things don't interest me.
~ Geezer Butler
I would never have ever dreamed that I would get married again and then all of a sudden you meet somebody. That's the thing about life. It can be so unexpected.
~ Gordon Lightfoot
The greatest day of my life was the day I married Mrs. Ford.
~ Henry Ford
The damning tho't stuck in my throat and cut me like a knife, That she, whom all my life I'd loved, should be another's wife.
~ Henry Glassford Bell
I never had a policy about marriage. I got married very young in life and I always think in all relationships, I've always thought that it's counterproductive to have a theory on that.
~ Jack Nicholson
it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.
~ Jane Austen
Marriage simplifies life and complicates the day.
~ Jean Rostand
The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets.
~ Edwin Percy Whipple