Marriage Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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 the most licentious of human institutions.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.

Man scans with scrupulous care the character and pedigree of his horses, cattle, and dogs before he matches them; but when he comes to his own marriage he rarely, or never, takes any such care.

Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.

A wise man should marry a virgin of a respectable family even if she is deformed. He should not marry one of a low-class family, through beauty. Marriage in a family of equal status is preferable.