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Quotes About Marriage

Were a man to consult only his reason, who would marry? For myself, I wouldn't marry, for fear of having a son who resembled me.
~ Nicolas Chamfort
Ease my suffering. Make me the happiest, most tortured man in the world. Marry me?
~ Nicole Williams
I didn't marry a man that wanted to be in the business. But that's why we're a perfect fit.
~ Niecy Nash
I'm a happily married man and I think to get married you have to be optimistic.
~ Patrick Marber
What's to be the reason for becoming man and wife, is it love that brings you here, or love that gives you life?
~ Paul Stookey
A man whose every exertion is bent upon showing up the flaws in his wife's character must be at least partially responsible for some of them.
~ Phyllis Bottome
The alliance of love between a man and a woman, an alliance for life, cannot be improvised, and is not made in a day.
~ Pope Francis
The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.
~ Oscar Wilde
Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the definition of a marriage as between one man and one woman.
~ Randy Neugebauer
The married man has all but eliminated that worry from his life, simply because his wife knows all about him: the good, the bad, and the tiny.
~ Ray Romano
The happy marriage, which is the only proper nursery, is indissoluble. The unhappy marriage, which perpetually tells the child a bogey-man story about life, ought to be dissolved.
~ Rebecca West
When I say things like 'Marriage should be between one man and one woman,' I'm called a bigot.
~ Rick Santorum
Oh well, I will say here, knowing each man, let you find a good wife too, and love her as hard as you can.
~ Robert Creeley
Not to sink under being man and wife, But get some color and music out of life?
~ Robert Frost
Men commonly couple with their idea of marriage a slight degree at least of sensuality; but every lover, the world over, believesin its inconceivable purity.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I think a marriage is as a marriage has always been, between a man and a woman.
~ Hillary Clinton
The best thing in the world [is] a strong house held in serenity where man and wife agree.
~ Homer
I have known men of valor cowards to their wives.
~ Horace Walpole
Married men make the best husbands.
~ James Huneker
A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who can do it, where there is no doubt of her regard, must, I think, be the happiest of mortals.
~ Jane Austen
Man and wife are equally concerned, to avoid all offence of each other, in the beginning of their conversation. Every little thing can blast an infant blossom.
~ Jeremy Taylor
Bachelors begin at thirty-six. Up till this age they are regarded as single men.
~ Jilly Cooper
This week, a 95-year-old woman married a 98-year-old man to become the world's oldest newlyweds. They're registered at Bed, Sponge Bath and Beyond.
~ Jimmy Fallon
My mother told me 'man on top, woman underneath.' For years my husband & I slept in bunk beds.
~ Joan Rivers