Marriage Quotes

When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
Sacha Guitry

Revenge, Wife, Him

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

Successful, Edifice, Rebuilt

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
Homer

Wife, Nothing, Two

Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.
Woody Allen

Home, Wife, Immature

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
Ellen Key

Love, Legal, Moral

By our Heavenly Father and only because of God, only because of God. We're like other couples. We do not get along perfectly; we do not go without arguments and, as I call them, fights, and heartache and pain and hurting each other. But a marriage is three of us.
Barbara Mandrell

God, Pain, Father

Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Old, Bachelor, Furniture

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
Michel de Montaigne

Love, Friendship, Good

Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
Ambrose Bierce

Two, Making, State

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.
H. L. Mencken

Anniversary, Truth, Husband

Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
H. L. Mencken

Time, Women, Men

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
Henry Ward Beecher

Person, Married, Wings

The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.
Brendan Behan

Money, Sex, Free

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
Katharine Hepburn

Desperate, Series

I think women are natural caretakers. They take care of everybody. They take care of their husbands and their kids and their dogs, and don't spend a lot of time just getting back and taking time out.
Reese Witherspoon

Time, Women, Care

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
Samuel Johnson

Men, Married, Wives

It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.
Euripides

Beauty, Husband, Girl

A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
W. Somerset Maugham

Home, Sex, Bothered

An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
Sacha Guitry

Wife, She, Faithful

A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams

Wife, Nothing, Questions

If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.
Mignon McLaughlin

Made, Why, Hell

There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.
Princess Diana

Three, Bit, Crowded

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

Love, God, Smile

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

Anniversary, Change, Work

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