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Quotes About Marriage

Marriage ... is still the imperfect institution it must remain while women continue to be ill-educated, passive, and subservient.
~ Harriet Martineau
Women won't let me stay single and I won't let me stay married.
~ Errol Flynn
I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
~ Queen Victoria
I've had three wives, six children and six grandchildren and I still don't understand women
~ John Wayne
I think that men know how to romance a woman and most do it well, at least for a time, otherwise women wouldn't marry them. The problem is that most of them begin to rest on their laurels.
~ Nicholas Sparks
Marriage isn't what it was. It's become a different thing because women have become human beings.
~ H. G. Wells
If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink.
~ Angela Carter
We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.
~ Robin Morgan
After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.
~ Mel Gibson
There is little reason left for society to respect women as it once did. Women get knocked up. They don't marry. They have abortions. They go to bars. They get knocked up again.
~ Laura Schlessinger
No matter how successful I become as a playwright, my mother would be thrilled to hear me tell her that I'd just lost twenty pounds, gotten married and become a lawyer.
~ Wendy Wasserstein
Never marry a beautiful woman. A beautiful woman will leave you. An ugly woman will leave you, too, but so what?
~ Rick Majerus
After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.
~ Helen Rowland
I've had an exciting time; I married for love and got a little money along with it.
~ Rose Kennedy
Women are lining up to marry me. Legend has it, I know how to do it.
~ Silvio Berlusconi
I have noticed... that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.
~ Marilyn Monroe
I didn't marry to have children. I married to have a relationship, and I was blessed with one child. I was an only child, too - my mother was smarter than most women today; she just had me.
~ Carmen Dell'Orefice
The only time that most women give their orating husbands undivided attention is when the old boys mumble in their sleep.
~ Wilson Mizner
Women's liberationists spread the word that the only peaceful family is one in which either the wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
~ Emmett Tyrrell
My weakness for beautiful women is my most expensive vice, I still believe in matrimony, but I can't afford another try.
~ George Strait
Some women marry houses. It's another kind of skin; it has a heart, a mouth, a liver and bowel movements.
~ Anne Sexton
Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem".
~ G.K. Chesterton
Intelligent women always marry fools
~ Anatole France
That one thing you do give up when you get married is that magic moment of meeting someone, and the sparks and the spontaneity.
~ Katie Aselton