Quotes About Marriage

There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.

Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.

I want my time to be taken up by chores, errands, appointments, and arguments. In other words, I want to get married.

Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division make barren our lives.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married

If you go to war pray once; if you go on a sea journey pray twice; but pray three times if you are going to be married

In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy.

A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage, but an ex-wife is there for the rest of your life

There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own mind, and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications of her own.

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her.

Older women should teach younger women the skills and disciplines needed to have a successful home and marriage. Experienced wives and mothers will find their greatest avenue of ministry in teaching younger wives what they need to know to be effective wives, mothers, and homemakers.

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

A woman of fortune being used the handling of money, spends it judiciously; but a woman who gets the command of money for the first time upon her marriage, has such a gust in spending it, that she throws it away with great profusion

Many women remain unmarried only because they were too smart to ever marry a man dumb enough to marry them.

A woman who has made fun of her husband can love him no more

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil

At first a woman doesn't want anything but a husband, but just as soon as she gets one, she wants everything else in the world

Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building

Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.

Someone asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true and incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

I was the best man at the wedding. If I'm the best man, why is she marrying him?