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Quotes About Marriage

A simple enough pleasure surely to have breakfast alone with one's husband but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as if she weren't.
~ Sacha Guitry
Any marriage happy or unhappy is infinitely more interesting and significant than any romance however passionate.
~ W. H. Auden
One of the best things about marriage is that it gets young people to bed at a decent hour.
~ M. M. Musselman
Marriage n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master a mistress and two slaves making in all two.
~ Ambrose Bierce
In our marriage, the success of our athletic dreams comes before everything. 'Hey do you want to watch a movie?' 'No, I have a hard workout tomorrow.'
~ Ashton Eaton
We really need to come behind and press for marriage equality in Northern Ireland.
~ Leo Varadkar
My marriage to David Bailey ended one morning in 1983, while he was away on a photo-shoot.
~ Marie Helvin
Any married man should forget his mistakes - no use two people remembering the same thing.
~ Duane Dewel
A good husband should always bore his wife.
~ Fred Jacob
It is better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
~ Arab proverb
With this ring I thee wed with my body I thee worship and with all my worldly goods I thee endow.
~ Bible
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure Marry'd in hast we may repent at leisure.
~ William Congreve
To marry once is a duty twice a folly thrice is madness.
~ Dutch proverb
There is a French saying: "Love is the dawn of marriage and marriage is the sunset of love."
~ De Finod
Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage and half shut afterward.
~ Thomas Fuller
Bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh.
~ Bible
Matrimony - the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.
~ Heinrich Heine
Something old something new Something borrowed something blue.
~ Old English Rhyme
If thou wouldst marry wisely marry thine equal.
~ Ovid
A prudent wife is from the Lord.
~ Bible
Remember it is as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.
~ William Thackeray
That's my prescription for a happy marriage - marry someone who doesn't do anything similar to what you do.
~ Maxine Kumin
Marriage is like the romantic ideal, and yet the trappings around it and the culture about it are really the opposite of that.
~ Lydia Millet