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Quotes About Marriage

A rare spoil for a man Is the winning of a good wife; very Plentiful are the worthless women.
~ Euripides
What else goes wrong for a woman-except her marriage?
~ Euripides
The Church has no double standard of morality. The moral code of heaven for both men and women is complete chastity before marriage and full fidelity after marriage.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
Marriage is the only chance (and it is but a chance) offered to women for escape from this death and how eagerly and how ignorantly it is embraced.
~ Florence Nightingale
I understand the phrase "Honor the Women" all too well: the poet has probably a wife of his own, but he prefers to honor another.
~ Franz Grillparzer
I've had lots of offers of marriage and from women wanting to have my kids.
~ Gareth Gates
Nowadays beautiful women are counted among the talents of their husbands.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
Female murderers get sheaves of offers of marriage.
~ George Bernard Shaw
In the ages since Adam's marriage, it has been good for some men to be alone, and for some women also.
~ George Eliot
Women love to hear a man defending their wife.
~ Geraldine Ferraro
Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says 'What would I do without you?' is already destroyed.
~ Germaine Greer
Popularity--The capacity for listening sympathetically when men boast of their wives and women complain of their husbands.
~ H. L. Mencken
The men that women marry, And why they marry them, will always be A marvel and a mystery to the world.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The man who enters his wife's dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
~ Honore de Balzac
Marriageable girls as well as mothers understand the terms and perils of the lottery called wedlock. That is why women weep at a wedding and men smile.
~ Honore de Balzac
A loving wife will do anything for her husband except stop criticizing him and trying to improve him.
~ J. B. Priestley
Marriage encourages the men and women who together create life to unite in a bond for the protection of children.
~ Jack Kingston
The fact is, I am in my third marriage and I do not believe in divorce. But I was half the problem, I guarantee you. More than half the problem. I couldn't negotiate with the other women.
~ James Brolin
A husband should not insult his wife publicly, at parties. He should insult her in the privacy of the home.
~ James Thurber
Marriage is a big adjustment for anyone - male or female. There is no guarantee that a person who has become set in his or her ways can successfully make that transition.
~ Jeanne Phillips
[to a teenage girl] Resolve to be economically independent before you marry anyone.
~ Jeanne Phillips
Staying in a marriage without love is like serving a life sentence with an incompatible cell mate.
~ Jeanne Phillips
A man who doesn't make you feel special, wanted or important would make a very poor husband.
~ Jeanne Phillips
"Great guys" can make great husbands.
~ Jeanne Phillips