Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
Abraham Lincoln
Don’t marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can’t live without.
James Dobson
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
To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you’re wrong, admit it; Whenever you’re right, shut up.
Ogden Nash
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
Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.
Hesiod
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
He’s the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.
Mae West
A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.
Eddie Cantor
Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth.
Edwin Louis Cole
Take care of him. And make him feel important. And if you can do that, you’ll have a happy and wonderful marriage. Like two out of every ten couples.
Neil Simon
I like getting married, but I don’t like being married.
Don Adams
Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.
Samuel Richardson
Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die.
Johnny Carson
A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
John Steinbeck
A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he’s finished.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
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
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
Benjamin Franklin
An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.
Booth Tarkington
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
Katharine Hepburn
It is a full time job being honest one moment at a time, remembering to love, to honor, to respect. It is a practice, a discipline, worthy of every moment.
Jasmine Guy
Marriage should be a duet – when one sings, the other claps.
Joe Murray
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.
Isadora Duncan
Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
Joseph Joubert
Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
St. Jerome
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
Herbert Spencer
Marriage is a gamble, let’s be honest.
Yoko Ono
For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end.
Catherine Zeta-Jones
I think it’s something that needs to be said – that there are interracial marriages out there, and the couples live happy lives, and there’s nothing wrong with it.
Tia Mowry
All marriages are happy. It’s the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.
Raymond Hull
In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.
Rita Rudner
They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
Alexander Pope
All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
Oliver Goldsmith
Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.
Charles Caleb Colton
Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.
Jean Rostand
He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.
Jeremy Taylor
Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel
Marriage – a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.
Beverley Nichols
I might be celibate, but I appreciate the wonder of the sacrament of marriage.
Keith O’Brien
Marriage is an exercise in torture.
Frances Conroy
But to sustain a marriage for 50 years, you have to get real a little bit and find someone who is understanding and who you can grow with. My mom always says, ‘Marry the man who loves you a millimeter more.’
Ali Larter
I wanted to marry a girl just like my mom.
Michael Bergin
Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious – friendship and learning.
Jane Harrison
I very much feel that marriage is a sacrament and that sacrament should extend… to that legal entity of a union between what traditionally in our Western values has been defined as between a man and a woman.
Bill Frist
Protecting the institution of marriage safeguards, I believe, the American family.
John Boehner
The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife’s spirits.
John Gay
Marriage is a financial contract; I have enough contracts already.
Linda Fiorentino
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