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Quotes About Marriage

Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man's life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it.
~ Lafcadio Hearn
Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, "Man Gets Married!"
~ Larry David
I don't sit around thinking that I'd like to have another husband; only another man would make me think that way.
~ Lauren Bacall
Dennis Thatcher, husband of Margaret Thatcher, when asked who wore the pants in his house, said "I do, and I also wash and iron them." I only like two kinds of men; domestic and foreign.
~ Mae West
God only expects man and woman to be together and to be legally married, only if they so are in love with each other.
~ Manny Pacquiao
If none were to Marry, but Men of strict Vertue and Honour, I doubt the World would be but thinly peopled.
~ Mary Astell
When a man seduces a woman, it should, I think, be termed a left-handed marriage.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft
Anybody who's been married to a man for forty odd years knows he's all talk.
~ Michael Parkinson
How can a man marry wisely in his twenties? The girl he's going to wind up wanting hasn't even been born.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
I believe marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman.
~ Mitt Romney
But married once, a man is stak'd or pown'd, and cannot graze beyond his own hedge.
~ Philip Massinger
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.
~ Philip Massinger
Men who marry wives very much superior to themselves are not so truly husbands to their wives as they are unawares made slaves to their position.
~ Plutarch
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.
~ Ogden Nash
Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men.
~ Oscar Wilde
Men do not like to admit to even momentary imperfection. My husband forgot the code to turn off the alarm. When the police came, he wouldn't admit he'd forgotten the code... he turned himself in.
~ Rita Rudner
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.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
As a man gets older, if he knows what is good for him,, the women he likes are getting older too. The trouble is that most of them are married.
~ Ross MacDonald
A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
~ Samuel Johnson
Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
~ Samuel Johnson
Oh, Mama was a smart woman. It takes a smart woman to fall in love with a good man.
~ Sarah Louise Delany
I'm not here to put down men, God love them and I'm married to one, but I do think they are more shallow.
~ Sharon Gless
I see by the papers that they are going to do away with all the nuisance taxes. That means that a man can get a marriage license for nothing.
~ Will Rogers
Men are April when they woo, December when they wed.
~ William Shakespeare