Marriage Quotes for Whatsapp and Facebook Status
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
Saint Paul (3-67) Apostle to the Gentiles
The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.
Sir Richard Steele (1672-1729) English essayist, dramatist, editor
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) Greek philosopher
One was never married, and that’s his hell; another is, and that’s his plague.
Robert Burton (1577-1640)
It is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.
Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English author, lexicographer
Marriage is a great institution, but I’m not ready for an institution yet.
Mae West (1892-1980) American film actress
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Anglo-Irish playwright, critic
Be not hasty to marry; it’s better to have one plough going than two cradles; and more profit to have a barn filled than a bed.
Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) English cleric Marriage.
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 author
I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.
Queen Elizabeth I of England (1533-1603)
I gravely doubt whether women ever were married by capture. I think they pretended to be; as they still do.
G. r K. Chesterton (1874-1936) British author
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
Jane Austen (1775-1817) English novelist
Alas, she married another. They frequently do. I hope she is happy —because I am.
Artemus Ward (1834-1867) American journalist
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Voltaire (1694-1778) French philosopher, author
The greatest sacrifice in marriage is the sacrifice of the adventurous attitude towards life.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Anglo-Irish playwright, critic
You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast; but we, that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.
Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) Anglo-Irish author
I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) English novelist
To church the parties went, At once with carnal and devout intent.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) English poet
Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.
Thomas Otway (1652-1685) English dramatist
The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not thank I should live till I were married.
Benedick, Much Ado About Nothing William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist, poet
When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindoo, his best friends hear no more of him.
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) English poet
In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish author
When a girl marries she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
Helen Rowland (1875-1950) American journalist
Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
Stephen Leacock (1869-1944) Canadian humorist and economist
When the blind leads the blind„ no wonder they both fall into matrimony.
George Farquhar (1678-1707) Irish dramatist
The deep, deep bliss of the double bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise longue.
Mrs. Patrick Campbell (1865-1940) British actress
They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one’s face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Anglo-Irish author
Marriage is a ghastly public confession of a strictly private intention.
Ian Hay (1876-1952) British author
Marriage is like a dull meal with the dessert at the beginning.
Henri, Comte de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) French painter, lithographer
‘Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) Anglo-Irish dramatist
It doesn’t much signify, whom one marries, for one is sure to find next morning that it was someone else.
Samuel Rogers (1763-1855) English poet
They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) English poet
Before marriage, a man will lie awake thinking about something you said; after marriage, hell fall asleep before you finish saying it.
Helen Rowland (1875-1950) American journalist
The critical period in matrimony is breakfast time.
A. P. Herbert (1890-1971) British author, politician
A man who marries a woman to educate her falls into the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.
Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) American author
Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; you only lose what little stock you had before.
William Wycherley (1640-1716) English dramatist
Marriage is law, and love is instinct.
Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) French author
Though women are angels, yet wedlock’s the devil.
Lord Byron (1788-1824) English poet
Venus, a beautiful, good-natured lady, was the goddess of love; Juno, a terrible shrew, the goddess of marriage: and they were always mortal enemies.
Jonathan Swift (1677-1745) Anglo-Irish satirist
Being unable to abolish love, the Church has decided at least to disinfect it, and has invented marriage.
Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) French poet
Love as a relation between men and women was ruined by the desire to make sure of the legitimacy of children.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) British philosopher, mathematician
Marriage has no natural relation to love. Marriage belongs to society; it is a social contract.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) English poet
The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it, sometimes three.
Alexandre Dumas (1803-1870) French author
There can only be one end to marriage without love, and that is love without marriage.
J. Churton Collins (1848-1908) British author, critic, scholar
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, writer
Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.
Vicki Baum (1888-1960) American writer
Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband’s often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says “What would I do without you?” is already destroyed.
Germaine Greer (b. 1939) Australian feminist writer
The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one’s clean linen in public.
‘ Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Anglo-Irish author
Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish author
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 (1875-1950) American journalist
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 (1854-1900) Anglo-Irish author
Without love, hatred, joy, or fear, They led — a kind of — as it were: Nor wish’d, nor car’d, nor laugh’d, nor cried: And so they liv’d, and so they died.
Matthew Prior (1664-1721) English poet, diplomat
In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself nor suffers any body else to rail at me.
William Congreve (1670-1729) English dramatist
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
Andre Maurois (1885-1967) French writer
A marriage is likely to be called happy if neither party ever expected to get much happiness out of it.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) British philosopher, mathematician
Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an inquest.
H. L Mencken (1880-1956) American journalist
Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish author
A wise woman will always let her husband have her way.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) Anglo-Irish dramatist
One fool at least in every married couple.
Henry Fielding (1707-1754) English novelist, dramatist
Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) American author
Marriages not infrequently break up because the more compliant partner eventually feels compelled to reassert his or her lost, separate identity.
Anthony Storr (b. 1920) British psychiatrist
It is not marriage that fails; it is the people that fail. All that marriage does is to show people up.
H. E. Fosdick (1878-1969) American Baptist minister
A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.
Nanette Newman (b. 1934) British actress
Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage licence I went across from the marriage bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, “What will you have, sir?” And I said, “A glass of hemlock.”
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) American author
The plural of spouse is spice.
Christopher Morley (1890-1957) American novelist, journalist
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English author, lexicographer
Even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognised by the police.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish novelist, essayist, poet
Marriage develops a binocular view of life, both masculine and feminine.
Dr. William Brown (1881-1962) British psychologist, psychiatrist
Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family — a domestic church.
Pope John Paul II (b. 1920)
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.
Peter de Vries (b. 1910) American writer
