Marriage Quotes

Make sure you have your own life before becoming someone's wife.

A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then it's too late.

The press is just not your friend when it comes to a marriage. That's why we didn't sell the pictures of our wedding, and we got offered millions of dollars for them, millions.

I don't want to be married. I'm very happy with a civil partnership. If gay people want to get married, or get together, they should have a civil partnership. The word 'marriage,' I think, puts a lot of people off. You get the same equal rights that we do when we have a civil partnership. Heterosexual people get married. We can have civil partnerships.

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

I was a working-class macho guy who was used to being served and Yoko didn't buy that.

I hope we're a nice old couple living off the coast of Ireland or something like that-looking at our scrapbook of madness.

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

A wife's a worry, a non-wife's even worse.

The goal of our life should not be to find joy in marriage, but to bring more love and truth into the world.

There is no greater stupidity than for people...to marry and so surrender themselves to the small miseries of domestic and private life.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

Marriage is the most licentious of human institutions.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

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.

It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

It's a dangerous thing to be married right up to the hilt, like my daughter's husband. The man is at home all day, like a damned soul in hell.