Marriage Quotes

I've included many of the best marriage quotations I've collected over the years. Enjoy, and if you have any more to add to the collection, please email me.

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed. -- Hoshang N. Akhtar

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. -- Benjamin Franklin

In many instances, marriage vows would be more accurate if the phrase were changed to 'Until debt do us part'. -- Sam Ewing

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight. -- Phyllis Diller

I'm the only man in the world with a marriage licence made out to whom it may concern. -- Mickey Rooney.

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence. -- King Vidor

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet. -- Mae West

I hate work. That's why I got married. -- Peg Bundy, on "Married with Children"

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose. -- F. M. Knowles

It was a perfect marriage. She didn't want to and he couldn't. -- Spike Milligan

Marriage is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important. -- Lisa Hoffman

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde

Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest. -- Helen Rowland

Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invaribly they are both disappointed. -- Albert Einstein

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

Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success. -- Jim Backus

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

God created sex. Priests created marriage. -- Voltaire

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards. -- Benjamin Franklin

There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again. -- Clint Eastwood

They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning. -- Clint Eastwood

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married. And by then it was too late. -- Max Kauffmann

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

The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret. -- Henry Youngman

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

A girl must marry for love, and keep on marrying until she finds it. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage. -- Lord Byron

Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway. -- Joey Adams

Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery. -- Erma Bombeck

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates

A man's wife has more power over him than the state has. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he's finished. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it. -- Anonymous

A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage. -- Marvin Kitman

I never married because I have three pets at home that answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog that growls every morning, a parrot that swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night. -- Marie Corelli

After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin; they just can't face each other, but still they stay together. -- Hemant Joshi

These Marriage Quotes were compiled by Rob Paul.

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