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Quotes About Marriage

A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Most married couples spend the whole day apart, the woman in the house, the man in the office or study or workshop.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Husbands are an inferior class of men, who require keeping in order.
~ George Eliot
It is a maxim that man and wife should never have it in their power to hang one another.
~ George Farquhar
We Batchelors laugh and shew our teeth, but you married men laugh till your hearts ake.
~ George Herbert
Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Do you know anybody under 25 that gives a damn whether you marry a man if you're a man or if you marry a woman if you're a woman? No.
~ Graham Nash
I'm not the marrying kind -" St. Vincent snorted. "No man is. Marriage is a female invention.
~ Lisa Kleypas
I think you'll have to marry me, Miss Fielding." "To save your reputation?" Derek grinned, bending to kiss the flash of pale throat revealed by the robe. "Someone has to make a respectable man of me.
~ Lisa Kleypas
A married woman has the same natural right to acquire and hold property, and to make all contracts that she is mentally competent to make reasonably, as has a married man, or any other man.
~ Lysander Spooner
Only a man who is ashamed of what he is will marry out of his race.
~ Malcolm X
Men who are proud of being black marry black women; women who are proud of being black marry black men.
~ Malcolm X
There has to be something wrong when a man or a woman leaves his own people and marries somebody of another kind.
~ Malcolm X
I hate to get gender essentialist, but I'm starting to think that a lot of married men have some sort of heterosexually induced dentistry aversion.
~ Mallory Ortberg
Cleverness is a quality a man likes to have in his wife as long as she is some distance away from him. Up close, he'll take kindness any day of the week, if there's nothing more alluring to be had.
~ Margaret Atwood
I believe that marriage is between one man and one woman, the same as I've believed all my life.
~ Mark Neumann
Your seventh wife, Phileros, is now being buried in your field. No man's field brings him greater profit than yours, Phileros.
~ Martial
I've never had a dislike for men. I've been badly treated by some. But I've been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them.
~ Maya Angelou
They can get married. They can marry a man if they're a woman. Or they can marry a woman if they're a man.
~ Michele Bachmann
A productive marriage requires falling in enjoy numerous occasions, usually with the identical man or woman.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
When a man says, "Get out of my house! what would you have with my wife?" there is no answer to be made.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
For most men, a stepford wife would bore them to tears after a couple of weeks
~ Na'ima B. Robert
After marriage, the other man's wife looks more beautiful.
~ Navjot Singh Sidhu
As compromised as their marriage might be, part of her still believed in her vows. She loved the man he'd been, and she loved the man she knew he could be.
~ Nicholas Sparks