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Good Marriage quotes: Best famous quotes about Marriage

Marriage is nature’s way of keeping us from fighting with strangers. – Alan King

You do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet. – Alan King

Banks have a new image. Now you have ‘a friend,’ your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens? – Alan King

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse. – Doug Larson

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. – Stephen B. Leacock

Politics doesn’t make strange bedfellows – marriage does. – Groucho Marx

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. – W. Somerset Maugham

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. – Mignon McLaughlin

If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you’d have a hell of a lot of overlapping. – Mignon McLaughlin

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him. – H. L. Mencken

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn’t they’d be married too. – H. L. Mencken

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married. – H. L. Mencken

If I ever marry, it will be on a sudden impulse – as a man shoots himself. – H. L. Mencken

Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. – H. L. Mencken

No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single. – H. L. Mencken

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid. – Harlan Miller

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. – Marilyn Monroe

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. – Michel de Montaigne

Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance. – Michel de Montaigne

Marriage – a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose. – Beverley Nichols

When a man opens a car door for his wife, it’s either a new car or a new wife. – Prince Philip

Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you. – Jean Rostand

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. – Helen Rowland

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one. – Helen Rowland

Before marriage, a man will lay down his life for you; after marriage he won’t even lay down his newspaper. – Helen Rowland

A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted. – Helen Rowland

In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar – a practice which is still continued. – Helen Rowland

I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. – Rita Rudner

Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage – they’ve experienced pain and bought jewelry. – Rita Rudner

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. – George Bernard Shaw

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher. – Socrates

Marriage: A word which should be pronounced “mirage”. – Herbert Spencer

Someone asked me why women don’t gamble as much as men do, and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don’t have as much money. That was a true and incomplete answer. In fact, women’s total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage. – Gloria Steinem

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habits and then complain that he’s not the man she married? – Barbra Streisand

A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year. – Paul Sweeney

One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again. – Judith Viorst

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds – they mature slowly. – Peter De Vries

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

Marriage is a great institution, but I’m not ready for an institution. – Mae West

He’s the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of. – Mae West

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. – Oscar Wilde

Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she’s a householder. – Thornton Wilder

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who’ll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you’re in the wrong house, that’s what it means. – Henry Youngman

The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret. – Henry Youngman

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Good quotes about Marriage: Some of the best great quotes about Marriage

A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing. – Joey Adams

In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage. – Robert Anderson

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. – Honore de Balzac

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. – Honore de Balzac

The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less. – Brendan Behan

Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two. – Ambrose Bierce

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage. – Ambrose Bierce

Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. – Ambrose Bierce

Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can’t help but smile on it. – Josh Billings

Love-matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar. – Countess of Blessington

A dress that zips up the back will bring a husband and wife together. – James H. Boren

The husband who doesn’t tell his wife everything probably reasons that what she doesn’t know won’t hurt him. – Leo J. Burke

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

Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner. – Charles Caleb Colton

Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit. – Billy Connolly

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

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. – Bette Davis

It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being. – Benjamin Disraeli

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married. – Benjamin Disraeli

Don’t marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can’t live without. – James C. Dobson

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. – Isadora Duncan

It’s a funny thing that when a man hasn’t anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married. – Robert Frost

A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he’s finished. – Zsa Zsa Gabor

Getting divorced just because you don’t love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do. – Zsa Zsa Gabor

On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable. – Emma Goldman

I’ve been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out. – Lee Grant

Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued. – Robert Graves

When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. – Sacha Guitry

A wedding is just like a funeral except that you get to smell your own flowers. – Grace Hansen

Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage. – Sydney J. Harris

The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle. – Heinrich Heine

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. – Katharine Hepburn

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. – Katharine Hepburn

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. – A. P. Herbert

Never get married in the morning – you never know who you might meet that night. – Paul Hornung

Never get married in college; it’s hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you’ve already made one mistake. – Elbert Hubbard

All marriages are happy. It’s the living together afterward that causes all the trouble. – Raymond Hull

Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night. – St. Jerome

Marriage is a mistake every man should make. – George Jessel

The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public. – George Jessel

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it. – Lyndon B. Johnson

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman. – Joseph Joubert

Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left. – Jean Kerr

If you want to read about love and marriage, you’ve got to buy two separate books. – Alan King

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