Marriage Quotes

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Marriage made people old and familiar, while still young.

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Ray Bradbury

The Martian Chronicles

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

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Mignon McLaughlin

Being In Love, Crush

How it is I know not; but there is no place like a bed for confidential disclosures between friends. Man and wife, they say, there open the very bottom of their souls to each others; and some old couples often lie and chat over old times till nearly morning.

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Herman Melville

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

Friends, Friendship

Relationship

Bed

— Who marries a man they just met?
— It's true love!

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Frozen

Love

We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations — we're doing everything we can to keep our marriage together.

Men of family would not be very fond of connecting themselves with a girl of such obscurity.

Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.

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Oscar Wilde

The Importance of Being Earnest

Marriage is hard enough without such low expectations.

I keep asking myself: "When is that moment in a marriage... ...when a spoon becomes just a spoon?"

But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them.

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Jane Ostin

Mansfield park

on behalf of the author

Man And Woman

— Look at those two. Tell me he's a good guy.
— Ah, he's a saint. Her?
— An angel.
— Oh, a saint and an angel. I give it a year.
— I would not even give it six months. This marriage has the shelf life of a banana.

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When in Rome

Elizabeth Ann "Beth" Martin

Nick Beamon

Ironic Quotes

You married a guy for the sex, and then expected him to be smart.

— ls Claire happy? l mean, do you think she's happy?
— Yes, l think she is. Why?
— l'm being silly. l'm a first-time husband. If she doesn't wake up and tell me she's ecstatic, l worry.

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The Mirror Has Two Faces

Alex (Claire's husband)

Rose Morgan

Love

Happiness

— It's just that I keep wondering, Dad. Why don't you get married again?
— I don't get married again because I can't find anyone I dislike enough to inflict that kind of torture on.

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.