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Quotes About Marriage

My mother's one idea was to sacrifice her life to her children and she had done nothing else since the death of my father. We wished that she had married again instead.
~ Peggy Guggenheim
Dad never ceased to remind my mother of his love for her.
~ John Carter Cash
I lived in a world where I didn't share the love for my stepfather that my mother shared for him. She married him.
~ Trevor Noah
In a husband, there is only a man; in a married woman, there is a man, a father, a mother and a woman.
~ Honore de Balzac
Being married to a daughter of India is a natural complement of my being in this country for 30 years. My roots are very much in this country, even though I remain a Westerner.
~ Francois Gautier
The man who is fortunate in his choice of son-in-law gains a son; the man unfortunate in his choice loses his daughter also.
~ Democritus
The trouble with marriage is that, while every woman is at heart a mother, every man is at heart a bachelor.
~ E. V. Lucas
Boys, don't try to find a woman as wonderful as your mother to marry because if you do, you'll stay single your whole lives.
~ Anthony Perkins
Fairy tales are about money, marriage, and men. They are the maps and manuals that are passed down from mothers and grandmothers to help them survive.
~ Marina Warner
Whenever I get married, it will be a Bengali wedding. If I won't have a Bengali wedding, my mother won't come. She has warned me. So, I am going to have a Bengali wedding for sure.
~ Bipasha Basu
Wherever you find a wife and mother-in-law slugging it out, you'll find a son who's not speaking up to either his mother or his wife.
~ Harriet Lerner
A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.
~ Walter Bagehot
A mother-in-law is better than a single and childless political persona, though.
~ Vladimir Zhirinovsky
If I could meet my mother and marry her, I would. I would be with my mother now, if she weren't my mother, as sick as that sounds.
~ Shia LaBeouf
Before she married my father, my mother was a film reviewer for The Akron Beacon Journal - a small newspaper.
~ Jim Jarmusch
One day it was about getting married that mother talked with me, and I said I was so glad that when you didn't like being married, or got tired of your husband, you could get Unmarried.
~ Eleanor Porter
Men often marry their mothers.
~ Edna Ferber
Marriages are failing, and mothers are raising their children alone. Many women would rather remain alone than marry a man who can't contribute anything to the family's income.
~ Hanna Rosin
If thy daughter marry well, thou hast found a son; if not, thou hast lost a daughter.
~ Francis Quarles
We should be the natural home for young mothers. But we're not. Because too often we sound like people who think the only good mother is a married mother.
~ Francis Maude
My mother was married to one of the greatest newsmen of all times. CNN was built out of his idealism and his recognition that, in a global age, we needed greater understanding of the world around us.
~ Troy Garity
The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology.
~ James G. Frazer
We don't like to say that [my wife was Jewish] because her mother was Jewish, which means she was Jewish. So don't imply that my wife was a shikse.
~ Kevin Sessums
My mother wasn?t sleeping with anybody. She doesn?t even sleep with my father.
~ Richelle Mead