Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
63 quotes from Samuel Johnson
Bachelors know more about women than married men if they didn't they'd be married too.
60 more quotes from H. L. Mencken
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
60 views from H. L. Mencken
Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.
9 other wisdom & wit from J. B. Priestley
Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later for another thing, they die earlier.
60 quotes from H. L. Mencken
The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
2 quotes from A. P. Herbert
The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.
2 other quotes from A. P. Herbert
The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.
15 other sayings from Cyril Connolly
Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.
60 views from H. L. Mencken
But I wanted marriage for myself. I was not calculating about it. I wish I was more calculating.
2 quotes from Linda McCartney
Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.
7 other quotes from Jean Giraudoux
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.
100 more views from Oscar Wilde
How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
100 other thoughts from Oscar Wilde
Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
2 views from Lewis Grizzard
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
103 thoughts from Friedrich Nietzsche
Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.
6 other wisdom & wit from William O. Douglas
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
29 quotes from Groucho Marx
Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife she has thought much worse things about you.
13 other quotes from Jean Rostand
No person connected with me by blood or marriage will be appointed to office.
6 more thoughts from Rutherford B. Hayes
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
100 other wisdom & wit from Oscar Wilde
Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.
29 thoughts from Groucho Marx
The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
24 quotes from Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
100 thoughts from Oscar Wilde
There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.
100 more quotes from Oscar Wilde
I had only two offers of marriage in my life, and I refused both.
2 quotes from Catherine Helen Spence
But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?
7 other quotes from Mary Astell
Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.
78 thoughts from Voltaire
Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
5 more views from Abigail Adams
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
78 sayings from Voltaire
In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
39 other quotes from Robert Louis Stevenson
Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
32 wisdom & wit from Martin Luther
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
52 views from George Eliot
Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
39 quotes from Robert Louis Stevenson
Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
39 other quotes from Robert Louis Stevenson
Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
52 sayings from George Eliot
Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
39 quotes from Robert Louis Stevenson
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
74 other wisdom & wit from Winston Churchill
The ceremony took six minutes. The marriage lasted about the same amount of time though we didn't get a divorce for almost a year.
14 sayings from Hedy Lamarr
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.
32 more sayings from Martin Luther
There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
25 more quotes from C. S. Lewis
Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.
98 views from Mark Twain
A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
68 thoughts from Samuel Butler
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
21 other sayings from Jane Austen
I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage.
3 views from Maria Callas
If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother.
3 sayings from Sam Levenson
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
75 other quotes from Benjamin Disraeli
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
21 thoughts from Jane Austen
It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.
46 thoughts from George Santayana
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
4 quotes from Ellen Key
Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
8 thoughts from Stephen Leacock
Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
68 wisdom & wit from Samuel Butler
More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
9 more quotes from Rainer Maria Rilke
No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
75 wisdom & wit from Benjamin Disraeli
A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.
23 sayings from Helen Rowland
A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.
23 views from Helen Rowland
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.
29 quotes from W. Somerset Maugham
A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
7 more thoughts from Joey Adams
A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.
2 quotes from Eddie Cantor
Books and marriage go ill together.
15 views from Moliere
Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
10 thoughts from William Congreve
Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
10 more sayings from Tertullian
God invented concubinage, satan marriage.
3 quotes from Francis Picabia
Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.
5 more views from Franz Schubert
I've had two terrific relationships, but both ended in marriage.
8 more quotes from Jane Seymour
In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued.
23 more sayings from Helen Rowland
It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying it's separating himself from all the others.
23 views from Helen Rowland
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
96 quotes from Benjamin Franklin
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
15 wisdom & wit from Moliere
Love, the quest marriage, the conquest divorce, the inquest.
23 other wisdom & wit from Helen Rowland
Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.
30 more thoughts from Charles Caleb Colton
Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
29 views from W. Somerset Maugham
Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.
2 more wisdom & wit from Eddie Cantor
Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway.
7 sayings from Joey Adams
Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.
23 quotes from Helen Rowland
Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.
5 other quotes from Douglas William Jerrold
Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.
23 sayings from Helen Rowland
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.
96 quotes from Benjamin Franklin
When I get married, it'll be no secret.
19 more views from Elvis Presley
Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
96 more quotes from Benjamin Franklin
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
32 quotes from Michel de Montaigne
A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
9 quotes from John Steinbeck
Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
22 quotes from Henry Adams
An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
5 other sayings from Sacha Guitry
If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable.
4 more quotes from George Ade
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
32 views from Michel de Montaigne
It had not occurred to me that marriage requires the same effort as a career. And unlike a career, marriage requires a joint effort.
14 quotes from Jessica Savitch
Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
3 quotes from Boris Pasternak
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
33 quotes from Erma Bombeck
Marriage is an institution and that's where a couple finish up.
3 wisdom & wit from Les Dawson
Marriage is like a cage one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
32 quotes from Michel de Montaigne
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
47 quotes from Abraham Lincoln
Marriage is too interesting an experiment to be tried only once.
6 wisdom & wit from Eva Gabor
Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
32 more quotes from Michel de Montaigne
One was never married, and that's his hell another is, and that's his plague.
4 other quotes from Robert Burton
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.
4 thoughts from Brendan Behan
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.
10 more quotes from Peter De Vries
The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.
10 more quotes from Peter De Vries
The secret of a good marriage is forgiving your partner for marrying you in the first place.
5 quotes from Sacha Guitry
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
10 quotes from Peter De Vries
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
5 more thoughts from Sacha Guitry
When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
13 other wisdom & wit from Francois Rabelais
Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.
6 sayings from Phyllis McGinley
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
11 thoughts from Henrik Ibsen
She's been married so many times she has rice marks on her face.
16 more quotes from Henny Youngman
The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.
16 other quotes from Henny Youngman
When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
18 more thoughts from Joseph Campbell
An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.
21 more thoughts from Bette Davis
Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.
21 quotes from Bette Davis
I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.
21 quotes from Bette Davis
In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.
3 more views from Gerald Brenan
Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.
11 views from Nicolas Chamfort
Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.
81 other sayings from William Shakespeare
Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.
12 quotes from Thornton Wilder
Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
2 quotes from George Jessel
Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.
27 other sayings from Leonardo da Vinci
Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking.
4 views from Marvin Gaye
Marriage is the tomb of love.
4 views from Giacomo Casanova
Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.
18 more quotes from Washington Irving
Marriage, laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.
2 views from Dora Russell
Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
20 other quotes from Herbert Spencer
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced 'mirage'.
20 other sayings from Herbert Spencer
Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
42 sayings from Josh Billings
The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.
2 other quotes from George Jessel
Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become.
4 wisdom & wit from Coretta Scott King
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
53 quotes from Honore de Balzac
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.
5 more wisdom & wit from Isadora Duncan
I married beneath me, all women do.
3 other quotes from Nancy Astor
If I get married, I want to be very married.
14 quotes from Audrey Hepburn
Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.
23 wisdom & wit from E. W. Howe
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
52 more sayings from Gilbert K. Chesterton
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
53 quotes from Honore de Balzac
Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom wait until they have been married longer.
23 thoughts from E. W. Howe
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
53 quotes from Honore de Balzac
One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
53 quotes from Honore de Balzac
Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
14 thoughts from Joseph Joubert
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
53 thoughts from Honore de Balzac
They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
43 quotes from Alexander Pope
This marriage is no one's business but our own.
8 quotes from Bobby Darin
To me, marriage is partly a religious thing and I'm not religious.
5 more quotes from Alastair Campbell
What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many?
3 quotes from Angela Carter
Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humbug.
7 more quotes from Max Frisch
Marriage, like death, is a debt we owe to nature.
3 other quotes from Julia Ward Howe
A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.
18 more thoughts from Pearl S. Buck
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
21 more sayings from Mignon McLaughlin
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.
53 more views from Marilyn Monroe
Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.
53 other views from Marilyn Monroe
Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.
20 more quotes from Christopher Lasch
Never get married in college it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.
59 other views from Elbert Hubbard
Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.
18 views from Pearl S. Buck
The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.
2 more quotes from John Gay
Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
58 more quotes from Henry Ward Beecher
For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.
3 sayings from Mary Augusta Ward
It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership.
3 more thoughts from Mary Augusta Ward
A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
14 quotes from Andre Maurois
A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
14 views from Andre Maurois
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
14 quotes from Andre Maurois
All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.
5 more views from Red Skelton
Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
24 views from Jean Cocteau
I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more.
5 more sayings from Marc Chagall
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
115 wisdom & wit from George Bernard Shaw
Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
115 other sayings from George Bernard Shaw
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
115 more views from George Bernard Shaw
Marriage, like money, is still with us and, like money, progressively devalued.
4 more wisdom & wit from Robert Graves
One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.
9 sayings from Iris Murdoch
The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.
3 quotes from Finley Peter Dunne
There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.
115 thoughts from George Bernard Shaw
Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.
12 quotes from Franz Kafka
Caesar might have married Cleopatra, but he had a wife at home. There's always something.
5 more wisdom & wit from Will Cuppy
He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.
8 more quotes from Jeremy Taylor
He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.
31 quotes from Mae West
It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
4 quotes from Guy de Maupassant
Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.
22 other quotes from Samuel Richardson
Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.
22 more quotes from Samuel Richardson
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
31 views from Mae West
Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.
14 other quotes from Ogden Nash
Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.
8 other views from Jeremy Taylor
Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.
26 other views from Jean de la Bruyere
Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough.
5 more quotes from Ingrid Bergman
To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it Whenever you're right, shut up.
14 more quotes from Ogden Nash