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Quotes About Marriage

Marriage is an institution that existed before governments existed. It's something that reflects nature and reflects God and God's will for us. And both from the standpoint of faith and reason it makes all the sense in the world. And it's beneficial for society.
~ Rick Santorum
It's funny - I read that women look to chiseled-faced guys for one-night stands, and to round-faced guys for marriage. When I'm rounder in the face, I like to say, 'This is my long-term look.' Or 'This is my wife-and-kids look right here.'
~ Garrett Hedlund
My husband stands on his own two feet; my religion is not a factor. God created and decided for me to be born in a Christian family. It's not every day that a Lebanese marries an Afghan. I think God's hand is also in there.
~ Rula Ghani
For my mother, everything stands in relation to her Welshness; the fact she married an Englishman seems to be something of an issue. She's kind of anti-English... anti-imperialist.
~ Ben Miller
Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
~ Novalis
I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
My wife called me a mule. She once said, "I didn't marry a man; I married a mule!" I kept thinking about it. It was in the back of my head. I think it makes a good title for an album.
~ Tom Waits
I am always in the hope to express the love of two lovers by a marriage of two complementary colors - colors which marry each other... complement each other as a man and a woman do.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Although I'm sure there are plenty of tall, gorgeous, life-of-the-party guys who are also true to their wives, I happen to believe that a disproportionate number of them are cheaters.
~ Emily Giffin, Baby Proof
Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
~ Abigail Adams
Men, no matter what their promises, rarely leave their spouses - the louses.
~ Yvonne De Carlo
Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.
~ Helen Rowland
A woman fit to be a man's wife is too good to be his servant.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
Why would any woman agree to be on a show called Bridezillas? It's not like men would agree to be on Douchegroom.
~ Doug Benson
I've done everything in the theatre except marry a property man.
~ Fanny Brice
This man's wife told him, "For Christmas, surprise me." On Christmas Eve he leaned over where she was sleeping and said, "Boo!"
~ Milton Berle
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
~ Moliere
Marriage is an institution that teaches a man regularity, frugality, temperance, forbearance and many other splendid virtues he would not need had he stayed single.
~ Rajneesh
Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
~ Amy Bloom
There is no such cozy combination as man and wife.
~ Menander
I don't think young men or women should feel pressured into marriage. You shouldn't marry anyone, in my opinion, who you have to try hard for.
~ Rachael Ray
It is as hard to get a man to stay at home after you've married him as it was to get him to go home before you married him.
~ Helen Rowland
A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I guess God has a sense of humor, when he had a man that wanted to start his life as a priest, end up marrying a preacher.
~ Jonathan Cain