Marriage Quotes

Age and marriage tame the beast.~ Haitian Proverb
A marriage in later years sends a letter to the grave digger.~ German Proverb
A second marriage is like a warmed-up meal.~ Romanian Proverb
A woman who has not been twice married cannot know what a perfect marriage is.~ Nigerian Proverb
Better a good hanging than a bad marriage.~ German Proverb
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.~ Jane Austen
Happy the marriage where the husband is the head and the wife the heart.~ Estonian Proverb
If the bread in the oven is a failure you lose a week; if the harvest is a failure you lose a year; if marriage is a failure then you lose a life.~ Estonian Proverb
I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.~ Lord Byron
I’ve sometimes thought of marrying, and then I’ve thought again.~ Noel Coward
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.~ Jane Austen
It’s not the men in my life that counts, it’s the life in my men.~ Mae West
I’d marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he’d be dead within a year.~ Bette Davis
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other’s character before marriage, which is never advisable.~ Oscar Wilde
Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can’t have one without the other.~ Sammy Cahn
Love does wonders, but money makes marriages.~ French Proverb
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Love is often the fruit of marriage.~ French Proverb
Marriage has teeth and it bites hard.~ Jamaican Proverb
Marriages are all happy. It’s having breakfast together that causes all the trouble.~ Irish Proverb
Marriages are not as they are made, but as they turn out.~ Italian Proverb
Marriage is a covered dish.~ Swiss Proverb
Marriage is a little bit like buying melons, you need a little luck.~ Spanish Proverb
Marriage is like a besieged fortress: those who are outside want to come in, and those already in want to be out.~ Arabian Proverb
Marriage is like a groundnut: you have to crack them to see what is inside.~ Ghanaian Proverb
Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.~ Hoshang N. Akhtar
Marriage is not a noun; it’s a verb. It isn’t something you get. It’s something you do. It’s the way you love your partner every day.~ Barbara De Angelis
Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.~ Joseph Barth
Marriage is the death of hope.~ Woody Allen
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.~ Mexican Proverb
Marriage is the opposite to a fever attack; it begins very hot and ends very cold.~ German Proverb
Marriage is the sunset of love.~ French Proverb
Marriage is a snake to slip into your handbag.~ African Proverb
Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.~ Irwin Cory
Marriages sealed with rings end with drawn knives.~ French Proverb
Marriage teaches you to live alone.~ French Proverb
Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.~ Oscar Wilde
My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met!~ Rodney Dangerfield
Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he’ll end up hating you.~ Jill Bennett
Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.~ Charles Caleb Colton
Not all who make love make marriages.~ Russian Proverb
Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden.~ Chinese Proverb
The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.~ Peter De Vries
The first marriage is a plate of honey, the second a glass of wine, and the third is a cup of poison.~ Serbian Proverb
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.~ Peter De Vries
To have beautiful servant girls is a threat to good marriages.~ Chinese Proverb
Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin, but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building.~ Oscar Wilde
When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.~ Oscar Wilde
Wives are young men’s mistresses; companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.~ Francis Bacon
When you get married you forget about kissing other women.~ Pat Boone