Marriage Quotes

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.

Husbands are like fires - they go out when they're left unattended.

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

Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.

All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.

Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.

When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.

One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.