Quotes About Marriage

Giving men marriage tips is a little like offering Vikings a free booklet titled How Not to Pillage.

Raise high the roof-beam, carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man.

A man gains no possession better than a good woman, nothing more horrible than a bad one.

When women are at the height of their beauty power and exercise it, we call it marriage. When men are at the height of their success power and exercise it, we call it a mid-life crisis.

If you are a married man resident in Cuba, you cannot get a passport to go to the next town without your wife's permission in writing.

Even among the married, sexual satisfaction must not be sought in a way which disregards man's character as a person and degrades him to the animal level.

Despite the myth that men are less committed, they are predisposed to desire marriage.

I come to the point of using steel, and simply cannot. It's like the marriage proposal of a perfectly eligible man who just isn't loveable. It is wood I love.

There was no religious ceremony connected with marriage among us, while on the other hand the relation between man and woman was regarded as in itself mysterious and holy.

As soon as my mother saw my father, she said, "Oh! I think I'm gonna marry that man." That's the reason I've been married four times, because I think it's that easy ... it really is not.

The only thing wrong with marriage is that one of the persons involved is a man.

I never met a man I could marry.

It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it's separating himself from all the others.

When a man makes a woman his wife it's the highest compliment he can pay her – and usually it's the last.

The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.

Now you must raise your children up in a world where that union of man and box turtle is on the same legal footing as man and wife

With wives, men hide behind the air of bravado, which is basically a defence mechanism, I think. Clever creatures, women. Very clever.

Men tell me that I've saved their marriages. It costs them a fortune in shoes, but it's cheaper than a divorce. So I'm still useful, you see.

The man who puts into the marriage only half of what he owns will get that out.

Sir, I have quarrelled with my wife; and a man who has quarrelled with his wife is absolved from all duty to his country.

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and therefore the state in which one is most likely to find solid happiness.

I'm married, which means that instead of occasionally wondering about men from afar, I actually live with one and can be constantly astounded by the strange male brain.