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Quotes About Marriage

Great men don't nessarily make good husbands.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Marriage is god's way to ensure there are few great men
~ Siddharth Katragadda
In Biblical times, a man could have as many wives as he could afford. Just like today.
~ Abigail Van Buren
all women, without in the least meaning it, consider every man they meet as a possible husband for themselves or for their best friend.
~ Agatha Christie
To feel admiration for a man all through one's married life would, I think, be excessively tedious.
~ Agatha Christie
Marriage makes a man more vulnerable by doubling the expanse of sail exposed to the tempests of social life.
~ Andre Maurois
I 've been married so much in my life that I never really had lovers, so it's been a fun time. Hopefully the men are enjoying it as well.
~ Angelina Jolie
Yes, I am seeking a husband. As soon as the right man asks me, I shall say, It is not good for a woman to live alone.
~ Anna Held
A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.
~ Anthony Trollope
I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
~ Anthony Trollope
A woman's life is not perfect or whole till she has added herself to a husband. Nor is a man's life perfect or whole till he has added to himself a wife.
~ Anthony Trollope
During a long and varied career as a bachelor, dear spouse [mock platform manner], I have noticed that marriage is usually the death of politeness between a man and a woman.
~ Arnold Bennett
Man and wife make one fool.
~ Ben Jonson
It was the duty of wives to submit to husbands, not of husbands to submit to wives. . . men have stronger muscles than women.
~ Bertrand Russell
I ... would guess maybe about one or two out of five men is suited for marriage and probably four out of five women are better at marriage than being single and would like to be married.
~ Bill Maher
He took his misfortune like a man - he blamed it on his wife.
~ Bob Phillips
Few men looked on her without becoming, in a certain fashion, her lovers. But it was the kind of love that made them not less true, but truer, to their own wives.
~ C. S. Lewis
It was a mixed marriage. I'm human, and he was a Klingon.
~ Carol Leifer
When a woman marries she belongs to another man; and when she belongs to another man there is nothing more you can say to her.
~ Cesare Pavese
Finally, a human man saw me as intensely valuable. Just my luck he was happily married and thought I was a freak.
~ Charlaine Harris
Man and wife, Coupled together for the sake of strife.
~ Charles Churchill
The happy married man dies in good stile at home, surrounded by his weeping wife and children. The old bachelor don't die at all — he sort of rots away, like a pollywog's tail.
~ Charles Farrar Browne
It is not for nothing that a man's best friends sigh when he marries, especially if he is a man of genius.
~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Sadly, the timing's never been right. There have been men who would have married me but I didn't feel the same, and vice versa.
~ Cherie Lunghi