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Quotes About Marriage

Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.
~ Aeschylus
The first bond of society is marriage.
~ Unknown
They who marry for wealth sell their own liberty
~ Unknown
I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.
~ Charles Bukowski
Nothing is more pleasurable than to sit in the shade, sip gin and contemplate other people's adulteries, and while the wormy apple of marriage still lives, the novel will not die.
~ Unknown
Marriage is the tomb of love
~ Giacomo Casanova
Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it.
~ Morton Hunt
People marry for a variety of reasons and with varying results. But to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.
~ James Branch Cabell
I talk marriage; they talk weddings!
~ Robert Farrar Capon
When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband.
~ Shana Alexander
Being asked whether it's better to marry or not, he (Socrates) replied, Whichever you do you will repent it
~ Diogenes
Marriage was a goal. A family, for me as a young girl, was my image of what I hoped for. It was part of the big picture.
~ Demi Moore
I doubt if there is one married person on earth who can be objective about divorce. It is always a threat, admittedly or not, and such a dire threat that it is almost a dirty word.
~ Unknown
So they were married-to be the more together- And found they were never again so much together, Divided by the morning tea, By the evening paper, By children and tradesmen's bills
~ Louis MacNeice
Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them.
~ Ogden Nash
A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it
~ Israel Zangwill
It was so cold I almost got married
~ Unknown
It is only poverty that makes celibacy contemptible. A single woman of good fortune is always respectable.
~ Jane Austen
To have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us do part
~ Book of Common Prayer
I'm just afraid I'm gonna miss it all... being married... being a mother.
~ Karen Carpenter
Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage
~ Benjamin Franklin
Marriage is honorable in all
~ Bible
Whoever said Marriage is a 50-50 proposition laid the foundation for more divorce fees than any other short sentence in our language.
~ Unknown
Marriage is a custom brought about by women who then proceed to live off men and destroy them, completely enveloping the man in a destructive cocoon or eating him away like a poisonous fungus on a tree
~ Richard Harris