Husband and Wives Sayings: Marriage Quotes

Love and marriage goes together like a horse and carriage! There are many things written about husbands and wives and marriages; some are inspirational and some are downright funny! Here are some marriage quotes from famous people and kids too.

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

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

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

In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar, a custom which is still continued.  –Helen Rowland, Reflections of a Bachelor Girl, 1909<

Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Representative Men, 1850

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

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

If you haven’t seen your wife smile at a traffic cop, you haven’t seen her smile her prettiest.  ~Kin Hubbard

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

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

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

You should never kiss a girl unless you have enough bucks to buy her a big ring and her own VCR, ’cause she’ll want to have videos of the wedding.  ~Jim, age 10

It gives me a headache to think about that stuff.  I’m just a kid.  I don’t need that kind of trouble.  ~Kenny, age 7, when asked if it’s better to be single or married

W]hen you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.  ~Nora Ephron, When Harry Met Sally

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

I’d marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage, and guarantee he’d be dead within the year.  ~Bette Davis

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Men should keep their eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.  ~Madeleine de Scudery

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

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

Courtship to marriage is as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.  ~William Congreve, The Old Bachelor, 1693

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 college; it’s hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you’ve already made one mistake.  ~Elbert Hubbard

I never even believed in divorce until after I got married.  ~Diane Ford

As a man, I’ve learned that there is nothing easier in married life than pleasing your wife with your cooking.  ~Robert Brault

If you want to read about love and marriage, you’ve got to buy two separate books.  ~Unknown

When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.  ~Nora Ephron, When Harry Met Sally

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

I never even believed in divorce until after I got married.  ~Diane Ford

Courtship to marriage is as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.  ~William Congreve, The Old Bachelor, 1693

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

As a man, I’ve learned that there is nothing easier in married life than pleasing your wife with your cooking.  ~Robert Brault,

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

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.  ~Alexander Pope, The Wife of Bath, 1713

Marriage is like a phone call in the night: first the ring, and then you wake up.  ~Evelyn Hendrickson

When the one man loves the one woman and the one woman loves the one man, the very angels desert heaven and come and sit in that house and sing for joy.  ~The Brahma Sutras

Love is one long sweet dream, and marriage is the alarm clock.  ~Author Unknown

If you are afraid of loneliness, don’t marry.  ~Anton Chekov

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

The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing – and then marry him.  ~Cher

This is guest from Mala Breganza who writes for Attachment Parenting site, where you will find parenting tips, personal finance tips, health issues, traveling with kids, finding zen balance and parenting gears and gift ideas.