Quotations About Marriage II

What we love about love is the fever, which marriage puts to bed and cures. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. ~William Penn


On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable. ~Emma Goldman, Marriage and Love


Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit. ~Billy Connolly


Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night. ~St. Jerome, Attack on Jovinian


My mother once told me that if a married couple puts a penny in a pot for every time they make love in the first year, and takes a penny out every time after that, they'll never get all the pennies out of the pot. ~Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City, 1978


The way to hold a husband is to keep him a little jealous; the way to lose him is to keep him a little more jealous. ~H.L. Mencken


A great poet has seldom sung of lawfully wedded happiness, but of free and secret love; and in this respect, too the time is coming when there will no longer be one standard of morality for poetry and another for life. To anyone tender of conscience, the ties formed by a free connection are stronger than the legal ones. ~Ellen Key, quoted by Sprading in Liberty and the Great Libertarians
Any married man should forget his mistakes - no use two people remembering the same thing. ~Duane Dewel


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


Then marriage may be said to be past in all quietnesse, when the wife is blind, and the husband deaf. ~Thomas Heywood, "Dialogues"


A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. ~Michel de Montaigne, Essays

Getting married is a lot like getting into a tub of hot water. After you get used to it, it ain't so hot. ~Minnie Pearl


It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time. ~Balzac, Physiologie du mariage, 1829


And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living! ~Tertullian


The surest way to be alone is to get married. ~Gloria Steinem


When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. ~Nora Ephron, When Harry Met Sally

Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest. ~Irwin Corey


If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. ~Katharine Houghton Hepburn


The total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution. ~Bertrand Russell, Marriage and Morals


The marriage of convenience has this to recommend it: we are better judges of convenience than we are of love. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight. ~Samuel Lichtenberg


The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once. ~H.V. Prochnow

Marriage is like pleading guilty to an indefinite sentence. Without parole. ~John Mortimer, The Trials of Rumpole