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Quotes About Marriage

An angry wife can be more frightening than an army of disgruntled soldiers.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
I think poetry without metaphor is like husband and wife living in separate bedrooms.
~ Munia Khan
Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaPoverty: The result of marriage.
~ Idries Shah, Caravan of Dreams
One of my father's RULES FOR LIFE was to marry a woman who was smarter than you. "I did this, " he would say to me, "and you should do it, too. I say, why do all the thinking?
~ Nicholas Sparks
I get letters from people who say, 'What have you got against women?' What could I possibly have against women? I've married three of them.
~ Lewis Grizzard
Any young man, who makes dowry a condition to marriage, discredits his education and his country and dishonours womanhood.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.
~ Plautus
Indian men are still used to the traditional role given to women; they want intelligent girls for company but not to marry... they have yet to taste and relish the company of mature women.
~ Amrita Pritam
Marriage orients men and women toward the future, asking them not just to commit to each other but to plan, to earn, to save, and to devote themselves to advancing their children's prospects.
~ Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not.
~ Albert Einstein
I prefer the word 'homemaker' because 'housewife' always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.
~ Bella Abzug
There is no slave, after all, like a wife...Poor women, poor slaves All married women, all children and girls who live in their father's house are slaves.
~ Mary Boykin Chesnut
Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.
~ Oscar Wilde
The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public.
~ Oscar Wilde
A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.
~ George Jean Nathan
I'm not that big a fan of marriage as an institution, and I don't know why women need to have children to be seen as complete human beings.
~ Marisa Tomei
A clever woman often compromises her husband; a stupid woman only compromises herself.
~ Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.
~ Warren Farrell
There's something luxurious about having a girl light your cigarette. In fact, I got married once on account of that.
~ Harold Robbins
The reason why women effect so little and are so shallow is because their aims are low, marriage is the prize for which they strive; if foiled in that they rarely rise above disappointment.
~ Sarah Moore Grimke
Women hope men will change after marriage but they don't; men hope women won't change but they do.
~ Bettina Arndt
It's hard making a woman your wife when you've been humpin married women for most of your life
~ Big Daddy Kane
No, I don't understand my husband's theory of relativity, but I know my husband and I know he can be trusted.
~ Elsa Einstein
I was thinking that women should put pictures of missing husbands on beer cans.
~ Steven Wright