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Quotes About Marriage

Daddy was real gentle with kids. That's why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant.
~ Loretta Lynn
When employers tell me they prefer married men, and encourage their men to have homes of their own, because it makes them so much steadier, I wonder if they have any idea of all that that implies.
~ Alice Hamilton
I'd seen a great many partial eclipses, but a partial eclipse has the same relation to a total eclipse as flirting with a man does to marrying him. It's completely different.
~ Annie Dillard
What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.
~ Anthony Trollope
A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
~ Anthony Trollope
Me never believe in marriage that muchmarriage is a trap to control me; woman is a coward. Man strong.
~ Bob Marley
A man who did not have but one wife in the Resurrection that woman will not be his but be taken from him & given to another.
~ Brigham Young
I can no longer seduce because I love my husband. I don't want to hurt him. I am no longer a man-eater.
~ Carla Bruni
a man is very revealed by his wife, just as a woman is revealed by her husband. People never marry beneath or above themselves, I assure you.
~ Carol Grace
I found the right man, got married, and just had to keep not reinventing myself, just deciding that it doesn't matter what you are if you are a good person.
~ Lisa Kudrow
Probably no strychnine has sent as many husbands into their graves as mealtime scolding has, and nothing has driven more men into the arms of other women as the sound of a shrill whine at table.
~ M. F. K. Fisher
I am glad that I am not a man, for then I should have to marry a woman.
~ Madame de Stael
I read recently that women still make 30% less than men in the workplace. Which I think is fine, cause if we didn't make 30% more, you guys would marry each other.
~ Mike Birbiglia
I know I will never have an affair with a married man again.
~ Monica Lewinsky
The happily married man with a large family is the test pilot for me.
~ Nevil Shute
Today, I will vote in support of the Marriage Protection Amendment. I shall do so because like President Bush, I strongly believe that marriage should be between a man and a woman.
~ Nick Lampson
The best thing I ever saw was a man who loved his wife.
~ Paul McCartney
More men would be treated like kings if they would only treat their wives like queens instead of servants.
~ Randall Wright
Middle age is the time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
~ Richard Armour
If the Constitution says that marriage is between a man and woman, then things that are inconsistent with that would be inconsistent with the Constitution.
~ Rick Santorum
A man seldom thinks of marrying when he meets his ideal woman; he waits until he gets the marrying fever and then idealizes the first woman he happens to meet.
~ Helen Rowland
A bachelor has to have an inspiration for making love to a woman--a married man needs only an excuse.
~ Helen Rowland
It is hardly possible to estimate how many marriages fail to prosper or are actually ruined because the man lacks any inkling of the art of love.
~ Hermann Graf Keyserling
For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one.
~ Hesiod