Quotes About Marriage

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?

He pressed his forehead against mine, clasped me round the waist, and said that henceforth we were married... Thus, then, in our hearts' honeymoon, lay I and Queequeg - a cosy, loving pair.

Matrimony is a process by which a grocer acquired an account the florist had.

You people married to Italian men, you know what it's like.

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has 'never had a chance, poor devil', you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

How could a man ever trust in a woman's judgment when he knows she chose him for a husband?

I'm no syllogism incarnate, but my wife makes me look like Immanuel Kant.

The people who marry make a good marriage not marriage in itself.

The secret of a good marriage is forgiving your partner for marrying you in the first place.

There are two possibilities in a marriage: Either it lasts forever or it seems like eternity.

Marriage is a journey that leads you to deserts, tropical islands, and Alaskan cruises. The victory in the journey is making sure you and your spouse are dressed appropriately for your current destination.

Marriage is a long event of perpetual change in which a man and a woman mutually build up their souls and make themselves whole.

To marry and be happy would be the eighth wonder of the world.

Marriage is like a phonograph record. You get what you like on one side and take what you get on the other.

It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.

Its not true that men forget they're married when they see a pretty woman. Just the opposite, thats when they're most painfully reminded of it.

Its risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk if he comes home too early.

Marriage is the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Get married, in any case. If you happen to get a good mate, you will be happy; if a bad one, you will become philosophical, which is a fine thing in itself.

At the very least marriage is a miscarriage of expectation, at its worst a wrenching disappointment with destiny.

For two people in a marriage to live together day after day is unquestionably the one miracle the Vatican has overlooked.