Marriage Quotes
Top 30 Marriage Quotes
No 1 (Best quote!)
There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.
(Annie Strong in David
Copperfield)
- Charles Dickens (1812-70), English
novelist , pictured right
No 2
The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all two.
(definition of marriage)
- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914), American writer
(pictured right).
So the English writer, Arnold Bennett (1867-1931), pictured right, says in his 1918
play The Title:
Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention
to it.
No 3
Tolerance is the one essential ingredient…You can take it from me that the Queen has the quality of tolerance in
abundance.
(the recipe for a successful marriage)
- Prince Philip (1921- ),husband of the British queen, Elizabeth II, pictured
right.
No 4
Marriage isn't a word...it's a sentence!
(caption from the 1928 silent film The Crowd)
- King Vidor (1895-1982), pictured right, American film director.
No 5
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a
wife.
(first line in the 1813 novel Pride and
Prejudice)
- Jane Austen (1775-1817), English writer,
pictured right
No 6
Nancy Astor: If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee!
Winston Churchill: And if I were your husband I would drink it.
- Winston Churchill (1874–1965), British prime
minister,pictured right above talking to another Member of Parliament, Lady Astor.
No 7
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
(from the 1903 play Man and Superman)
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), pictured right, Irish writer.
No 8
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
- Samuel Johnson (1709–84), English writer, pictured right.
No 9
Marriage is a wonderful institution ... but who wants to live in an institution?,
- Groucho Marx (1890-1977), American comedian and film and TV star, pictured right (also said
by another American film star, Mae West ,1893-1980)
No 10
Successful marriage is the most effective form of social support, relieving the effects of stress and leading to
better mental and physical health.
- Michael Argyle, pictured right, in The Psychology of
Interpersonal Behaviour (1967)
No 11
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.
- Martin Luther (1483-1546), German theologian, pictured right.
No 12
The joys of marriage are the heaven on earth.
(from the 1633 poem The Broken Heart)
- John Ford (1586-c1639), English poet.
No 13
If you want to be happily married, marry a happy person.
- Julian Fellowes (1949- ), English actor and writer, pictured right.
No 14
When marriage works - and it does take a lot of work
- it's the best way to live.
- Katherine Graham, American boss of the Washington Post 1963-79,
pictured right .
No 15
You were born together, and together you shall be
forever more...But let there be spaces in your togetherness.
- Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931), Lebanese-born American
philosopher, pictured right
No 16
The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his chequebook open.
- Groucho Marx (1890-1977), American comedian and film and TV star, pictured right
No 17
Marriage is not all
bed and breakfast.
- William R.
Coulson, American psychologist, pictured right.
No 18
Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.
- Groucho Marx (1890-1977), American comedian and film and TV star, pictured right
No 19
Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.
- Franz Schubert (1797-1828, Austrian composer, pictured right
No 20
Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live
without.
- James Dobson (1936- ), pictured right, American preacher and writer.
No 21
I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having
her own way. And second, let her have it.
- Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-73), pictured right, American president.
No 22
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
- André Maurois (1885-1967), pictured right, French writer.
No 23
Whenever you're wrong, admit it;
Whenever you're right, shut up.
(from the 1964 poem A Word to Husbands)
- Ogden Nash (1902-71), pictured right, American poet.
No 24
When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this
person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
(1844-1900), pictured right, German philosopher.
No 25
Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
- Benjamin Franklin
(1706-90), pictured right, American politician and philosopher.
No 26
Marriage is a wonderful invention; but, then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
- Billy Connolly (1942- ), pictured right, Scottish comedian.
No 27
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
(Charlotte Lucas in the 1813 novel Pride and
Prejudice)
- Jane Austen (1775-1817), pictured
right, English writer.
No 28
The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.
- Peter De Vries (1910-93), pictured right, American writer.
No 29
The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.
- Cyril Connolly (1903-74), pictured right, English writer.
No 30
I don't think my wife likes me very much, when I had a heart attack she wrote for an ambulance.
- Frank Carson (1926-2012), pictured right, Northern Irish comedian.
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