Marriage Quotes

Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Arabic Proverb

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Benjamin Franklin

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Benjamin Franklin

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Benjamin Franklin

I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed too - for being married so many times.

Elizabeth Taylor

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Dr. Paul Tournier

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Abraham Lincoln

A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

William Shakespeare

Mrs. Van Daan's grizzling is absolutely unbearable; now she can't any longer drive us crazy over the invasion, she nags us the whole day long about the bad weather. It really would be nice to dump her in a bucket of cold water and put her up in the loft.

Anne Frank

Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.

Franz Schubert

Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man's life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it.

Lafcadio Hearn

I figure no matter how old you are, it's always going to be your first marriage and no life experience is going to make you a better judge of who you should marry.

Utada Hikaru

It was a strange thing, to still be in love with your wife and to not know if you liked her. What would happen when this was all over? Could you forgive someone if she hurt you and the people you love, if she truly believed she was only trying to help?I had filed for divorce, but that wasn't what I really wanted. What I really wanted was for all of us to go back two years, and start over. Had I ever really told her that?

Jodi Picoult

Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?

George Bernard Shaw

The road to success is filled with women pushing their husbands along.

Lord Thomas Dewar

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If I was your wife Sir, I'd poison you! Madam, if you were my wife, I'd let you!

Sir Winston Churchill

Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?

Ted Olson

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

W. A. Clarke