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 | 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. — Socrates, 469-399 BC, Ancient Geek Philosopher 73 likes |
 | God created sex. Priests created marriage. — Voltaire, 1694-1778, French philosopher & writer 35 likes |
 | If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry. — Anton Chekhov, 1860-1904, Russian writer 18 likes |
 | Marriage is the cure of love, and friendship the cure of marriage. — Lord Chesterfield, 1694-1773, English statesman & writer 16 likes |
 | A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night. — Chanakya, 370-280 π.X., Indian teacher & philosopher 14 likes |
 | One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 13 likes |
 | 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. — Marilyn Monroe, 1926-1962, American actress 12 likes |
 | I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man. — Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881, British Prime Minister 11 likes |
 | A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. — Mignon McLaughlin, 1913-1983, American magazine editor 10 likes |
| Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 10 likes |
 | Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy. — La Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680, French writer 10 likes |
 | So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three. — Alexandre Dumas, fils, 1824-1895, French writer 8 likes |
 | Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do. — Zsa Zsa Gabor, 1917-2016, Hungarian-American actress 7 likes |
 | Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing. — Wolfgang Goethe, 1749-1832, German poet & philosopher 7 likes |
 | A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek. — Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, English writer 7 likes |
 | Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr., 1940-2021, American self-help writer 7 likes |
 | Marriage is the operation by which a woman’s vanity and a man’s egotism are extracted without anaesthetic. — Helen Rowland, 1875-1950, American journalist & humorist 7 likes |
 | The appropriate age for marriage is around eighteen for girls and thirty-seven for men. — Aristotle, 384-322 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 7 likes |
 | It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. — Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher 6 likes |
 | Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution? — H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956, American columnist & cultural critic 6 likes |
 | An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't. — Sacha Guitry, 1885-1957, French writer 6 likes |
| I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious. — Anton Chekhov, 1860-1904, Russian writer 6 likes |
| If you made a list of the reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping. — Mignon McLaughlin, 1913-1983, American magazine editor 6 likes |
 | Marrying means, to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find out an eel out of an assembly of snakes. — Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German philosopher 5 likes |
 | Unable to do away with love, the Church found a way to decontaminate it by creating marriage. — Charles Baudelaire, 1821-1867, French poet 5 likes |
| When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living. — Helen Rowland, 1875-1950, American journalist & humorist 5 likes |
 | Since the law prohibits the keeping of wild animals and I get no enjoyment from pets, I prefer to remain unmarried. — Karl Kraus, 1874-1936, Austrian writer 5 likes |
| In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties. — Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German philosopher 4 likes |
 | Love-making is radical, while marriage is conservative. — Eric Hoffer, 1902-1983, American writer & philosopher 4 likes |
 | My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 4 likes |
 | Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards. — Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, American politician & writer 4 likes |
 | Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. — Francis Bacon, 1561-1626, English philosopher 4 likes |
| Marry the right person. This one decision will determine 90% of your happiness or misery. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr., 1940-2021, American self-help writer 4 likes |
| When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one. — Helen Rowland, 1875-1950, American journalist & humorist 4 likes |
| Marriage is a bargain, and somebody has to get the worst end of the bargain. — Helen Rowland, 1875-1950, American journalist & humorist 4 likes |
| A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished. — Zsa Zsa Gabor, 1917-2016, Hungarian-American actress 4 likes |
 | Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side. — Zig Ziglar, 1926-2012, American self-help writer 4 likes |
 | Marriage simplifies life and complicates the day. — Jean Rostand, 1894-1977, French scientist & philosopher 4 likes |
 | The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1927-2014, Colombian writer 4 likes |
| Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage. — Zig Ziglar, 1926-2012, American self-help writer 4 likes |
 | Choose a wife by your ear than your eye. — Dr. Thomas Fuller, 1654-1734, English physician and adage collector 4 likes |
| What we love about love is the fever, which marriage puts to bed and cures — Mignon McLaughlin, 1913-1983, American magazine editor 3 likes |
 | Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, 1742-1799, German author of maxims 3 likes |
 | Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution. — Mae West, 1893-1980, American actress 3 likes |
 | It was a perfect marriage. She didn't want to and he couldn't. — Spike Milligan, 1918-2002, Irish comedian 3 likes |
 | A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. — Michel de Montaigne, 1533-1592, French thinker 3 likes |
| Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage — Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, American politician & writer 3 likes |
| Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures. — Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, English writer 3 likes |
 | A man’s best friend is a good wife. — Thomas Edison, 1847-1934, American inventor 3 likes |
| A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted. — Helen Rowland, 1875-1950, American journalist & humorist 3 likes |
| Husbands are like fires - they go out when unattended. — Zsa Zsa Gabor, 1917-2016, Hungarian-American actress 3 likes |
| A girl must marry for love, and keep on marrying until she finds it. — Zsa Zsa Gabor, 1917-2016, Hungarian-American actress 3 likes |
 | A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after. — Gloria Steinem, 1934-, American writer & feminist 3 likes |
 | Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge. — Bill Cosby, 1937-, American comedian 3 likes |
 | Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years. — Robert Oxton Bolt, 1924-1955, British playwright 2 likes |
| It marriage happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out. — Michel de Montaigne, 1533-1592, French thinker 2 likes |
| Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance. — Michel de Montaigne, 1533-1592, French thinker 2 likes |
| It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination. — Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, English writer 2 likes |
| A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner. — Francis Bacon, 1561-1626, English philosopher 2 likes |
| When you see a married couple walking down the street, the one that's a few steps ahead is the one that's mad. — Helen Rowland, 1875-1950, American journalist & humorist 2 likes |
| Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest. — Helen Rowland, 1875-1950, American journalist & humorist 2 likes |
 | To marry a woman you love and who loves you is to lay a wager with her as to who will stop loving the other first. — Alfred Capus, 1858-1922, French writer 2 likes |
| I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky. — Anton Chekhov, 1860-1904, Russian writer 2 likes |
| I always said marriage should be a fifty-fifty proposition. He should be at least fifty years old, and have at least fifty-million dollars. — Zsa Zsa Gabor, 1917-2016, Hungarian-American actress 2 likes |
 | This is what divorce is: taking things you no longer want from people you no longer love. — Zadie Smith, 1975-, British writer 2 likes |
 | It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both. — Guy de Maupassant, 1850-1893, French writer 2 likes |
 | Marriage is the art for two people to live together as happy as they would have lived on their own. — Georges Feydeau, 1862-1921, French playwright 2 likes |
 | I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year. — Bette Davis, 1908-1989, American actress 2 likes |
 | Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play. — William Congreve, 1670-1729, English writer 1 likes |
 | I like the idea of marriage, because it is an act of heroism. — Claude Lelouch, 1937-, French film director 1 likes |
 | The art of marriage consists in the ability to pass from love to friendship without sacrificing love. — André Maurois, 1885-1967, French writer 1 likes |
 | A good marriage is like Dr Who's Tardis: small and banal from the outside but spacious and interesting from within. |
 | Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best. |
 | Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution. |
| When considering marriage one should ask oneself this question; “will I be able to talk with this person into old age?” Everything else is transitory, the most time is spent in conversation. |
 | Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel. |
 | One should choose for a wife only such a woman as he would choose for a friend, were she a man. |
 | And now, she could not believe that the meaningless life she was living was the happiness she had dreamed of. — Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1880, French writer ‐ Madame Bovary |
 | A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness. |
| We should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul. |
| Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: routine. |
| Two spouses must be careful not to quarrel when they no longer love each other enough for reconciliation. |
| A married couple fit very well together when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time. |
 | Have you seen a room from which faith has gone?... Like a marriage from which love has gone… And patience, patience everywhere like a fog. |
 | Marriage is what takes the giggles out of the girls. |
 | There is at least one marriage that makes a man happy: that of his daughter. |
 | Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses. |
 | Smart men can't be good husbands for the very reason that they don't get married. |
 | There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage. |
| Love is love, but marriage is an investment. |
| It is heresy in America to embrace any way of life except as half of a couple. Solitude is un-American. |
| Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world. |
| We came to realize how little married couples see of each other once they crawl in the bourgeois box. |
| Maybe marriages are best in middle age. When all the nonsense falls away and you realize you have to love one another because you ’re going to die anyway. |
 | Marriage based on love is not serious business. |
| Love is physics, marriage is chemistry. |
 | Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them. |
| Remember always that the most important thing in a wedding is not happiness but stability. |
| The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast. |
| A man should have two wives: one to love and one to sew on his buttons. |
 | Inventors don't have time for married life. |
| Bachelors know more about women than married men. If they didn't, they'd be married, too. — H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956, American columnist & cultural critic |
 | With marriage, something ends for men. For women, it's the opposite: something begins. |
 | Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history. |
 | There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall. |
 | The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage. |
 | Marrying a woman for her money is very much like setting a rat-trap, and baiting it with your own finger. |
 | Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage |
Funny Quotes
 | Don't get down on one knee for a woman who won't get down on two for you. — Anonymous 12 likes |
| If we could see how women would look twenty years later, we would not marry them twenty years before. — Georges Feydeau, 1862-1921, French playwright 9 likes |
 | Ah, yes, divorce… from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man’s genitals through his wallet. — Robin Williams, 1951-2014, American actor 6 likes |
 | My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met. — Rodney Dangerfield, 1924-2004, American comedian 5 likes |
| Marriage...it's not a word, it's a sentence. — Rodney Dangerfield, 1924-2004, American comedian 4 likes |
| My marriage is on the rocks again, yeah, my wife just broke up with her boyfriend. — Rodney Dangerfield, 1924-2004, American comedian 4 likes |
 | The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret. — Henry Youngman, 1906-1998, American comedian 4 likes |
| She's been married so many times she has rice marks on her face. — Henry Youngman, 1906-1998, American comedian 4 likes |
| Marriage, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two. — Ambrose Bierce, 1842–1914, American writer 4 likes |
 | Don't forget Mother's Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad's Third Wife Day. — Jay Leno, 1950-, American TV host 4 likes |
| Nobody works as hard for his money as the man who marries it. |
 | A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores. |
Ancient Greek
 | You live a good life if you don’t have a wife. Βίον καλόν ζης αν γυναίκα μη έχεις. — Menander, 4th cent. BC, Ancient Greek dramatist (New Comedy) 10 likes |
 | Marry a virgin, so that you can teach her the right manners. Παρθενικήν δε γαμείν, ως κ’ ήθεα κεδνά διδάξης. — Hesiod, 7th cent. BC, Ancient Greek poet ‐ Works and Days -699 7 likes |
| Neither being far short of thirty years nor much above; this is the right time for marriage. Μήτε τριηκόντων ετέων μάλα πολλ᾽ απολείπων μητ᾽ επιθείς μάλα πολλά· γάμος δε τοι ώριος ούτος. — Hesiod, 7th cent. BC, Ancient Greek poet ‐ Works and Days -695 4 likes |
| A good wife is the salvation of [a man’s] life. Γυνή δικαία του βίου σωτηρία. — Menander, 4th cent. BC, Ancient Greek dramatist (New Comedy) 4 likes |
 | The man who is lucky in his son-in-law gains a son, whilst the man who fails loses a daughter. Γαμβρόν ο μεν επιτυχών, εύρεν υιόν. Ο δε αποτυχών, απώλεσε και θυγατέρα. — Democritus, 470-370 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 3 likes |
 | Never say that marriage brings more joy than pain. Ούποτε φήσω γάμον ευφραίνειν πλέον ή λυπείν. — Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Alcestis 3 likes |
 | For marriage is the worst misfortune! Ως εστι το γαμείν έσχατον του δυστυχείν. — Antiphanes, 405-335 BC, Ancient comic poet 2 likes |
Proverbs
 | Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye. 6 likes |
 | The woman cries before the wedding and the man after. 2 likes |
Movie Quotes
 | After fifteen minutes I wanted to marry her, and after half an hour I completely gave up the idea of stealing her purse. — from the film Take the Money and Run (1969) 4 likes |
