Marriage Quotes

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

Samuel Johnson

A lady`s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

Jane Austen

Love is moral without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Ellen Key

Marriage. The beginning and the end are wonderful. But the middle part is hell.

Enid Bagnold

Wives are young men`s mistresses; companions for middle age; and old men`s nurses.

Francis Bacon

A bad husband is far worse than no husband.

Margaret Cavendish

Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she`s a householder.

Thornton Niven Wilder

The only good thing about marriage is becoming a widow.

Isabel Allende

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Shana Alexander

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

Rita Rudner

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

Arthur Schopenhauer

There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage. A marriage in which there is love, but on one side only; faith, but on one side only; devotion, but on one side only, and in which of the two hearts one is sure to be broken.

Oscar Wilde

A happy marriage is a long conversation that always seems too short.

Andre Maurois

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

Mignon McLaughlin