Marriage Quotes

Marriage and hanging go by destiny; matches are made in heaven. (Robert Burton, 1577-1640)

A man's friends like him but leave him as he is: his wife loves him and is always trying to turn him into somebody else. (Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1874-1936)

It is true that I never should have married, but I didn't want to live without a man. Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did. (Bette Davis, 1908-1989)

Every woman should marry – and no man. (Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881)

Marriage is a great institution – no family should be without it (Bob Hope, 1903-)

Happy and thrice happy are they who enjoy an uninterrupted union, and whose love, unbroken by any complaints shall not dissolve until the last day. (Horace, 65-8 b.c.)

The fundamental trouble with marriage is that it shakes a man's confidence in himself, and so greatly diminishes his general competence and effectiveness. His habit of mind becomes that of a commander who has lost a decisive and calamitous battle. He never quite trusts himself thereafter. (Henry L. Mencken, 1880-1956)

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. (George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950)

All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own fashion. (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910)

When a man marries again it is because he adorned his first wife. (Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900)

How marriage ruins a man. It's as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive. (Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900)

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