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.
