Quotes About Marriage

A lady is nothing very specific. One man's lady is another man's woman; sometimes, one man's lady is another man's wife. Definitions overlap but they almost never coincide.

In our family we don't divorce our men - we bury them.

Many men hoard for the future husbands of their wives.

Men always marry younger girls, but sometimes when a women who's very mature marries a younger man, she's criticized. It needs to be corrected.

Men should never marry their muse. It ruins the illusion.

Women become breadwinners, men become caregivers. That's the birth of intimate marriage.

The trouble is you almost have to marry a man before you can find out the sort of wife he needs; and usually it's exactly the sort you are not.

A man marries one woman to escape from many others, and then chases many others to forget he's married to one.

A woman says to a man, "I haven't seen you around here." "Yes, I just got out of jail for killing my wife." "So you're single!"

Grandchildren don't make a man feel old; it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother.

I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him.

No man is worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or ever will be so.

The tragedy of marriage is that while all women marry thinking that their man will change, all men marry believing their wife will never change.

Happy wife, happy life. I think every man learns that quick. Really quick.

The last thing a man becomes progressive about is the activities of his own wife.

Marriage entitles women to the protection of a strong man who will steady the stepladder while they paint the kitchen ceiling.

A man should have two wives: one to love and one to sew on his buttons.

You are a good young man," she said. "But I do not like husbands. I will never have another.

Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.

Men never know how tired they are till their wives sit them down for a nice long talk.

Marrying a divorced man is ecologically responsible; in a world where there are more women than men, it pays to recycle.

A man who marries at my age isn't taking a wife, he's indenturing a nurse.

If he's getting married, he's not longer interesting.

I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get.