Marriage Quotes


For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
Saint Paul (3-67) Apostle to the Gentiles

The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

By all means marry: if you get a good wife you’ill become happy; if you get a bad one, you will become a philosopher.

One was never married, and that is his hell; another is, and that is his plague.
Robert Burton (1577-1640)

It is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist.

There is. Indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.
Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English author, lexicographer.

Marriage is a great institution, but I’m not ready fro ad institution yet.
Mae West (1892-1980) American film actress.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Anglo-Irish playwright, critic

Be not hasty to marry; it’s better to have one plough going than two cradles; and more profit to have a barn filled than a bed.
Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) English cleric.

Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all two.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) American author.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.
Queen Elizabeth I of England (1533-1603)

I gravely doubt whether women ever were married by capture. I think they pretended to be; as they still do.
G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936) British author.

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
Jane Austen (1775-1817) English author.

Alas, she married another. They frequently do. I hope she is happy because I am.
Artemus Ward (1834-1867) American journalist.


Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Voltaire (1694-1778) French Philosopher, author.

The greatest sacrifice in marriage is the sacrifice of the adventurous attitude towards life.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Anglo-Irish playwright, critic.

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast; but we, that are old, and know what we are abut, must elope methodically, madam.
Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) Anglo-Irish author.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.
Penn.

One of good things that come of a true marriage is, that there is one face on which changes come without your seeing them; or rather there is one face which you can still see the same, through all the shadows which years have generated upon it.
G.Macdonald.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.
Ovid.

What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder. God will take care of that.
G.Bernal Shaw.

Marriage! Nothing else demands so much from a man!
Ibsen.

The Don Juans among men and the light O loves among women are afraid of marriage.
Dr. Alfred Adler.

Pleasant the snaffle of courtship, improving the manners and carriage; but the colt who is wise will abstain from the terrible throw bit of Marriage.
Rudyard Kipling.

You cannot weld cake dough to cast iron, nor a girl to an old man.
Austin O Malley.

The happy married man dies in good stile at home, surrounded by his weeping wife and children. The old bachelor don’t die at all he sort of rots away, like a pollywog’s tail.
Artemus Ward.

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