Quotations About Marriage I

Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it. ~Josh Billings


Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does. ~Groucho Marx


Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married? ~Barbra Streisand


No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married. ~Benjamin Disraeli


In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar, a custom which is still continued. ~Helen Rowland, Reflections of a Bachelor Girl, 1909


He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of. ~Mae West


Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake. ~Elbert Hubbard


The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then marry him. ~Cher


Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in? ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Representative Men, 1850


When a man opens the car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife. ~Prince Philip


Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder. ~Thornton Wilder


No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single. ~H.L. Mencken


Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance. ~Michel de Montaigne


I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage, and guarantee he'd be dead within the year. ~Bette Davis

Men should keep their eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards. ~Madeleine de Scudery


Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it. ~Josh Billings


Courtship to marriage is as a very witty prologue to a very dull play. ~William Congreve, The Old Bachelor, 1693

If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books. ~Alan King

Marriage is like a phone call in the night: first the ring, and then you wake up. ~Evelyn Hendrickson


Love is one long sweet dream, and marriage is the alarm clock. ~Author Unknown


If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry. ~Anton Chekov


The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle. ~Heinrich Heine Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the common-sensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage. ~Gloria Steinem

It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married. ~Robert Frost

I never even believed in divorce until after I got married. ~Diane Ford