A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

I hate work. That's why I got married.

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch. Love comes into it too, of course, but in Europe we tend to see marital love as an eternity which encompasses hate and also indifference: when we promise to love we really mean that we promise to honor a contract. Americans, seeming to take marriage with not enough seriousness, are really taking love and sex with too much.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the "y" is silent.

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

I think like any marriage, especially when you’ve had divorced parents like myself, you’d want to try even harder to make it work.

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

It destroys one's nerve to be amiable every day to the same human being.

Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

There is a French saying: "Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love."

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, "What will you have, sir?" And I said, "A glass of hemlock."

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

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.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Love is often the fruit of marriage.

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

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.

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. That is what makes a marriage last --more than passion or even sex!

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

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

A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.

The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.