Marriage

Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. So each is inevitably disappointed.

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.

The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage appear.

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to. J. R. R.

 

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

The guests are met, the feast is set: May’st hear the merry din.

It is a true error to marry with poets or to be by them.

Marrying left your maiden name disused.

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

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 .

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

The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so.

[ Rufus T. Firefly, played by Groucho Marx, speaking :] Will you marry me? Did he leave you any money? Answer the second question first.

It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as possible.

It is not a good thing for an artist to marry. As the ancients used to say, if you serve a Muse, you must serve her and no one else. An unhappy marriage may perhaps contribute to the development of talent, but a happy one is no good at all.

Marriage as a long conversation. - When marrying you should ask yourself this question: do you believe you are going to enjoy talking with this woman into your old age? Everything else in a marriage is transitory, but most of the time that you're together will be devoted to conversation.

These articles subscribed, if I continue to endure you a little longer, I may by degrees dwindle into a wife.

Man’s best possession is a sympathetic wife.

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

I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.

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.

The Wedding Guest here beat his breast, For he heard the loud bassoon.

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should refuse an offer of marriage.