Marriage Quotes and Sayings

Never get married in the morning, because you never know who you'll meet that night.

Three rings of marriage are the engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering.

Love is a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.

What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.

You can't be value free when it comes to marriage.
by Al Gore


Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Love is blind, marriage is the eye-opener.

A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he’s finished.

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.
by George Bernard Shaw

Divorce is the past tense of marriage.

Marriage is like a phone call in the night: first the ring, and then you wake up.

Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they blossom when we love the ones we marry.
by Tom Mullen

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

There is no such cozy combination as man and wife.
by Menander

Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.

An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.

Love is one long sweet dream, and marriage is the alarm clock.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
by John Berger

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
by Oscar Wilde


The goal in marriage is not to think alike, but to think together.

Never say marriage has more joy than pain.

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

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

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it’s not so hot.

The First Bond of Society is Marriage.
by Cicero