Quotes About Marriage

I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.

90% of the divorces are initiated by women. That is really odd. Why? What's going on? What's the great discontent at the heart of it?

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier - and also a good deal more foolish.

The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilization on males and females alike must be resolved, a pattern within which men must learn, in return for a variety of elaborate rewards, new forms in which sexual spontaneity is still possible, and women must learn to discipline their receptivity to a thousand other considerations.

Reliable office staff come in the shape of mature married women working from 9.30 to 3.30 (inside school hours) during which they will do more than the 9-5ers.

Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.

Thou art blind to the danger of marrying a woman who feels and acts out the principle of equal rights.

My grandmother was a very tough woman. She buried three husbands and two of them were just napping.

Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman. The right sort of woman can distinguish between Creative Lassitude and plain shiftlessness.

Marriage, Sir, is much more necessary to a man than to a woman; for he is much less able to supply himself with domestick comforts.

I was raised in the Jewish tradition, taught never to marry a Gentile woman, shave on a Saturday night and, most especially, never to shave a Gentile woman on a Saturday night.

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

He was a cowboy, mister, and he loved the land. He loved it so much he made a woman out of dirt and married her. But when he kissed her, she disintegrated. Later, at the funeral, when the preacher said, Dust to dust, some people laughed, and the cowboy shot them. At his hanging, he told the others, I'll be waiting for you in heaven--with a gun.

No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.

It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious-minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious-minded man to marry a lighthearted woman.

Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.

That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.

Women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.

All married women are not wives.

Personally, I think if a women hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky.

The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts for a divorce.

Avoid wine and women -- choose a freckly-faced girl for a wife; they are invariably more amiable.