Quotes About Marriage

She was a worthy womman al hit lyve,Housbondes at chirche dore she hadde fyve.

Then you compared a woman's love to Hell, To barren land where water will not dwell, And you compared it to a quenchless fire, The more it burns the more is its desire To burn up everything that burnt can be. You say that just as worms destroy a tree A wife destroys her husband and contrives, As husbands know, the ruin of their lives.

The trouble with my wife is that she is a whore in the kitchen and a cook in the bed.

Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.

If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable.

half the pleasures of life [are] derived from the little struggles and small privations that one had to endure at the beginning of one's married life. Such struggles [are] generally occasioned by want of means, and often helped to make loving couples stand together all the firmer.

The Seven Year Itch

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

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

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.

What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that.

What is virtue but the trades unionism of the married.

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

I just want to know who made the rule that you had to stop having fun once you got married.

If someone talks about union, fidelity, a monogamous relationship, love, blessing I would say it sounds like marriage to me. And blessing, you see, I think is undermining our sacrament of marriage.

Marry an orphan: you'll never have to spend boring holidays with the in-laws.

I'd think 'In a relationship, we should never have his kind of fight.' Then, instead of figuring out how to make it work, I looked for a way to get out of it. The truth is, you shouldn't be married if your that kind of person.

That quiet mutual gaze of a trusting husband and wife is like the first moment of rest or refuge from a great weariness or a great danger.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Women whose husbands were living were addressed as and referred to as Mrs. and their husband's name. After the husband's death, a woman may have been addressed as Mrs., her own first name, and her husband's surname.

Kaldar almost never stops and thinks about the consequences of his actions. Something is fun or not fun, and my brother's fun often lands him in interesting places such as jails or castles belonging to California robber barons. Where other people see certain death, my brother sees an opportunity for a hilarious, thrilling adventure. But when I got the tattoo, Kaldar warned me that marrying her was a bad idea.