1,063 Quotes Regarding Marriage


A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Mignon McLaughlin

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
Socrates

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friedrich Nietzsche

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
Oscar Wilde

Don't marry the person you think you can live with marry only the individual you think you can't live without.
James C. Dobson

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

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
Martin Luther

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Winston Churchill

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.
Marilyn Monroe

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Rita Rudner

Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.
Franz Schubert

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
Abraham Lincoln

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
Oscar Wilde

Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.
Amy Grant

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.
Lyndon B. Johnson

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.
Doug Larson

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.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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

One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.
Judith Viorst

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
Katharine Hepburn