Quotes About Marriage

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

They say love is blind . . . and marriage is an insritution. Well, I'm nor ready for an instirurion for rhe blind just yet.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and boughr jewelry.

A virtuous wife is a man's best treasure.

A wife is the joy of a man's heart.

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.

One of the things my life has taught me is how important it is to try to say, "I love you" in ways that can be preserved, looked at, and read when you are alone or when there is adversity or when circumstances bring separation. In any case, . . . saying "I love you" is one of the "secrets" of the happy marriage that Ronnie and I have shared. Ronnie's letters move me to this day. They are his gift to me across the years, and throughout the decades of love.

My son is my son till he have got him a wife, But my daughter's my daughter all the days of her life.

The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.

I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.

The general rule is that people who enjoy life also enjoy marriage.

Let him that would be happy for a day, go to the barber; for a week, marry a wife; for a month, buy him a new horse; for a year, build him a new house; for all his lifetime, be an honest man.

My husband wasn't listening when the doctor asked for "a urine, stool, and semen sample" . . . so I just told him they wanted his shorts.

One reason people get divorced is that they run out of gift ideas.

No man is a hero to his own wife; no woman is a wife to her own hero.

A good husband should be deaf and a good wife blind.

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it.

Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.

I think marriage and family keeps being written about because that's where we keep our reputations with ourselves - I mean, we can't quite slip the truths we reveal about ourselves at home.

I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves.

Every couple needs glue to stay together. Like all marriages, I suspect, if you're busy you don't see it coming until you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube. It's a bit like going broke. It happens slowly and then very quickly.

The National Mall is a special place for my wife and I. We got married on Signers Island in Constitution Gardens. It's a little spot tucked away on the National Mall. There are lots of places like that where you can find a quiet place to get away from it all.