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Marriage Quotes by Famous Authors

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91. “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

Marriage Humor, Life Ironies, Witty Insight, Marriage, Humor, Life

92. “Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.”

Benjamin Franklin

Marriage, Awareness, Relationships, Caution, Perspective

93. “Lastly no woman should marry a teetotaller, or a man who does not smoke. It is not for nothing that this “ignoble tobagie” as Michelet calls it, spreads all over the world.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

Ignoble Tobagie, Marital Advice, Smoking Perspective, Habits, Lifestyle, Marriage

94. “Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.”

W.H. Auden

Marriage, Romance, Commitment, Time, Emotional Complexity

95. “Like fingerprints, all marriages are different.”

George Bernard Shaw

Marriage, Uniqueness, Relationships, Love, Fingerprints, Commitment

96. “Love between young people and love after many years of marriage is not the same thing.”

Hermann Hesse

Love, Young, Marriage, Relational Evolution, Emotional Maturity, Temporal Perspective

97. “Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.”

Mark Twain

Love, Patience, Growth, Marriage, Wisdom

98. “Loveless marriages are horrible. But 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

Marriage, Love, Devotion, Heartbreak, Faith

99. “Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.”

William Shakespeare

Maids, Husbands, Want, Satisfaction, Marriage

100. “Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.”

William Shakespeare

Hanging, Marriage, Prevention, Humor, Wisdom

101. “Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.”

Zig Ziglar

Marriage, Relationships, Communication, Teamwork, Understanding

102. “Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage.”

Zig Ziglar

Marriage, Planning, Relationships, Commitment, Success

103. “Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.”

Michel de Montaigne

Marriage, Freedom, Human Relationships, Critique, Metaphor

104. “Marriage and the up-bringing of children in the home require as well-trained a mind and as well-disciplined a character as any other occupation that might be considered a career.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

Marriage, Parenting, Discipline, Commitment, Responsibility

105. “Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.”

Marilyn Monroe

Love, Relationships, Marriage, Heartache, Loss

106. “Marriage is a long, dull meal with dessert served at the beginning.”

Oscar Wilde

Marriage, Irony, Life, Humor, Relationships

107. “Marriage is a step so grave and decisive that it attracts light-headed, variable men by its very awfulness.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

Grave Marriage, Decisive Step, Attraction Irony, Marriage, Step, Irony

108. “Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.”

George Bernard Shaw

Marriage Irony, Partnership Humor, Marriage, Humor, Irony, Partnership

109. “Marriage is but slavery made to appear civilized.”

Albert Einstein

Marriage, Critique, Society, Relationships, Independence

110. “Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.”

George Bernard Shaw

Marriage Class, Desertion Humor, Marriage, Class, Desertion, Humor

111. “Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.”

Michel de Montaigne

Marriage, Freedom, Relationships, Human Nature, Irony

112. “Marriage is like a temple resting on two pillars. If they come too close to each other the temple will collapse.”

Khalil Gibran

Marriage Love, Balance Relationships Unity Stability, Marriage, Love, Stability

113. “Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

Marriage Battle, Life Field, Roses Comparison, Marriage, Life, Battle

114. “Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.”

Abraham Lincoln

Marriage, Relationships, Reality, Expectations, Life

115. “Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

Marriage Conversation, Relationship Dynamics, Lifelong Debate, Marriage, Conversation, Disputes

116. “Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.”

George Bernard Shaw

117. “Marriage is rarely bliss But, surely it would be worse As particles to pelt At thousands of miles per sec About a universe In which a lover's kiss Would either not be felt Or break the loved one's neck.”

W.H. Auden

Marriage, Love, Physics, Cosmic Perspective, Human Relationships