Quotations about Marriage 2

A dog is much like a married man, obeying his master's voice for the sake of his master's touch. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short. ~Andre Maurois

Marriage: A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other for ninety-nine years, or until death do them join. ~Elbert Hubbard

In the early years, you fight because you don't understand each other. In the later years, you fight because you do. ~Joan Didion

It is easy to mistake being ready for a wedding with being ready for marriage. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

Marriage isn't all that it's cracked up to be. Let me tell you, honestly. Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce. ~Larry Gelbart, M*A*S*H, "Bulletin Board," original airdate 14 January 1975, spoken by the character Frank Burns

When a girl marries she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one. ~Helen Rowland

In the long run wives are to be paid in a peculiar coin - consideration for their feelings. As it usually turns out this is an enormous, unthinkable inflation few men will remit, or if they will, only with a sense of being overcharged. ~Elizabeth Hardwick, Seduction and Betrayal, 1974

Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you. ~Helen Rowland

Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left. ~Jean Kerr, Mary, Mary, 1960

Marriage changes passion - suddenly you're in bed with a relative. ~Author Unknown

It is not marriage that fails; it is people that fail. All that marriage does is to show people up. ~Harry Emerson Fosdick

A wedding is just like a funeral except that you get to smell your own flowers. ~Grace Hansen

The view that a peptic ulcer may be the hole in a man's stomach through which he crawls to escape from his wife has fairly wide acceptance. ~John Allan Dalrymple Anderson

Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner. ~Charles Caleb Colton

I've been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out. ~Lee Grant

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid. ~Harlan Miller

The man who never in his life
Has washed the dishes with his wife
Or polished up the silver plate -
He still is largely celibate.
~Christopher Morley, Washing the Dishes

A love that lasts for twenty years may be better than love, but it isn't love. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

God created sex. Priests created marriage. ~Voltaire

To avoid mistakes and regrets, always consult your wife before engaging in a flirtation. ~E.W. Howe

The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret. ~Henny Youngman

Marriage is a mistake every man should make. ~George Jessel

I guess walking slow getting married is because it gives you time to maybe change your mind. ~Virginia Cary Hudson, O Ye Jigs & Juleps, 1962 (Thanks, Charlene)

A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. ~Helen Rowland

My husband and I divorced over religious differences. He thought he was God, and I didn't. ~Author Unknown

Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them. ~Ogden Nash

One thing you learn in a long marriage is how many sneezes to wait before saying, "Bless you." ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

Husbands are like fires. They go out when unattended. ~Zsa Zsa Gabor

The concern that some women show at the absence of their husbands, does not arise from their not seeing them and being with them, but from their apprehension that their husbands are enjoying pleasures in which they do not participate, and which, from their being at a distance, they have not the power of interrupting. ~Michel de Montaigne

But married once, a man is stak'd or pown'd, and cannot graze beyond his own hedge. ~Philip Massinger, Fatal Dowry, 1632

Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy. ~François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld

Why do married men gain weight while bachelors don't? Bachelors go to the refrigerator, see nothing they want, then go to bed. Married guys go to the bed, see nothing they want, then go to the refrigerator. ~Author Unknown

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night. ~Marie Corelli

Women seem to be all right on bargains till it comes to picking out a husband. ~Kin Hubbard

After a few years of marriage, a man can look right at a woman without seeing her - and a woman can see right through a man without looking at him. ~Helen Rowland

Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan. ~Quentin Crisp, "The Art of Celibacy"

Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age; and old men's nurses. ~Francis Bacon, "Of Marriage and Single Life," Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral, 1625

Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage." ~Herbert Spencer

A man without a wife is like a vase without flowers. ~African Proverb

A woman ought to look up to her husband, if only a half-inch. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

A woman who loves her husband is merely paying her bills. A woman who loves her lover gives alms to the poor. ~Paul-Jean Toulet

Love requires a willingness to die; marriage, a willingness to live. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive. ~Juvenal,Satires

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years. ~Nick Faldo

Men never know how tired they are till their wives sit them down for a nice long talk. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

The reason they're called the opposite sex is because every time you think you have your wife fooled - it's just the opposite! ~Walter Winchell

By the time you're his
Shivering and sighing,
And he vows his passion is
Infinite, undying
Lady, make a note of this:
One of you is lying.
~Dorothy Parker

Originally marriage meant the sale of a woman by one man to another; now most women sell themselves though they have no intention of delivering the goods listed in the bill of sale. ~Robert Graves

If I ever marry, it will be on a sudden impulse - as a man shoots himself. ~H.L. Mencken

My wife tells me she doesn't care what I do when I'm away, as long as I'm not enjoying it. ~Lee Trevino

To keep your marriage brimming,
With love in the loving cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it;
Whenever you're right, shut up.
~Ogden Nash

"What's for dinner?" is the only question many husbands ask their wives, and the only one to which they care about the answer. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

Most marriages can survive "better or worse." The tester is all the years of "exactly the same." ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages. ~Barry Goldwater

People do not marry people, not real ones anyway; they marry what they think the person is; they marry illusions and images. The exciting adventure of marriage is finding out who the partner really is. ~James L. Framo, "Explorations in Marital & Family Therapy"

Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. ~H.L. Mencken

I dreamed of a wedding of elaborate elegance,
A church filled with family and friends.
I asked him what kind of a wedding he wished for,
He said one that would make me his wife.
~Author Unknown

No man expects a great deal from marriage. He is quite satisfied if his wife is a good cook, a good valet, an attentive audience, and a patient nurse. ~Author Unknown

Think not because you are now wed
That all your courtship's at an end.
~Antonio Hurtado de Mendoza

Alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse. ~Arthur Baer

I came from a big family. As a matter of fact, I never got to sleep alone until I was married. ~Lewis Grizzard

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage. ~Martin Luther

Alimony - The ransom that the happy pay to the devil. ~H.L. Mencken, "Sententiae," A Book of Burlesques, 1920

If marriage were outlawed, only outlaws would have in-laws. ~Author Unknown

As a general guideline, never marry anyone that you can't picture helping you go to the bathroom. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do. ~Zsa Zsa Gabor

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again. ~Noel Coward, 1956

Thus Dante's motto over Inferno applies with equal force to marriage: "Ye who enter here leave all hope behind." ~Emma Goldman, Marriage and Love

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded. Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt. ~Edna Ferber, Show Boat, 1926

"I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence? ~Author Unknown

Affairs are just as disillusioning as marriage, and much less restful. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness. ~Virginie des Rieux, Epigrams

Wedlock is a padlock. ~John Ray, English Proverbs

The marriage of convenience has this to recommend it: we are better judges of convenience than we are of love. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight. ~Samuel Lichtenberg

The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once. ~H.V. Prochnow

Marriage is like pleading guilty to an indefinite sentence. Without parole. ~John Mortimer, The Trials of Rumpole

One of the best things about marriage is that it gets young people to bed at a decent hour. ~M.M. Musselman

Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest. ~Irwin Corey

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. ~Katharine Houghton Hepburn

The total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution. ~Bertrand Russell, Marriage and Morals

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State- and church-begotten weed, marriage? ~Emma Goldman, Marriage and Love

What we love about love is the fever, which marriage puts to bed and cures. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. ~William Penn

On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable. ~Emma Goldman, Marriage and Love

Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit. ~Billy Connolly

Marriage is nature's way of ensuring that a woman picks up some mothering experience before she has her first child. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night. ~St. Jerome,Attack on Jovinian

[M]y mother once told me that if a married couple puts a penny in a pot for every time they make love in the first year, and takes a penny out every time after that, they'll never get all the pennies out of the pot. ~Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City, 1978

The way to hold a husband is to keep him a little jealous; the way to lose him is to keep him a little more jealous. ~H.L. Mencken

A great poet has seldom sung of lawfully wedded happiness, but of free and secret love; and in this respect, too the time is coming when there will no longer be one standard of morality for poetry and another for life. To anyone tender of conscience, the ties formed by a free connection are stronger than the legal ones. ~Ellen Key, quoted by Sprading in Liberty and the Great Libertarians

Any married man should forget his mistakes - no use two people remembering the same thing. ~Duane Dewel

Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry. ~Rita Rudner

Then marriage may be said to be past in all quietnesse, when the wife is blind, and the husband deafe. ~Thomas Heywood, "Dialogues"

Come, let's be a comfortable couple and take care of each other! How glad we shall be, that we have somebody we are fond of always, to talk to and sit with. ~Charles Dickens

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. ~Michel de Montaigne, Essays

Getting married is a lot like getting into a tub of hot water. After you get used to it, it ain't so hot. ~Minnie Pearl

Love is grand; divorce a hundred grand. ~Author Unknown

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time. ~Balzac, Physiologie du mariage, 1829

A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors. ~Benjamin Franklin

And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living! ~Tertullian

The surest way to be alone is to get married. ~Gloria Steinem

[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 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, www.robertbrault.com

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

If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books. ~Alan King

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 Chekhov

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

If you haven't seen your wife smile at a traffic cop, you haven't seen her smile her prettiest. ~Kin Hubbard

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

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

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

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

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

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does. ~Groucho Marx

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

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married. ~Benjamin Disraeli

In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar, a custom which is still continued. ~Helen Rowland, Reflections of a Bachelor Girl, 1909

He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of. ~Mae West

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

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