When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.
Queen Victoria

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
Queen Victoria

If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother.
Sam Levenson

I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage.
Halle Berry

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
Andre Maurois

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
Andre Maurois

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
Andre Maurois

When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity.
Robert Anton Wilson

No person connected with me by blood or marriage will be appointed to office.
Rutherford B. Hayes

I'm not eager to jump into marriage again. I'm in the corner right now, wearing my dunce cap. That area is obviously a nightmare.
Lisa Marie Presley

Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand.
James Taylor

Our marriage is strictly in name only. It has never been consummated.
LaToya Jackson

The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.
Denis Diderot

You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse.
Omar Khayyam

After a few years of marriage a man can look right at a woman without seeing her and a woman can see right through a man without looking at him.
Helen Rowland

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.
Helen Rowland

Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.
Helen Rowland

Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.
Helen Rowland

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.
Helen Rowland

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.
Helen Rowland