Marriage

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.

A person of genius should marry a person of character. Genius does not herd with genius.

The bride hath paced into the hall, Red as a rose is she.

Love the quest; marriage the conquest; divorce the inquest.

To keep your marriage brimming with love in the loving cup; whenever you're wrong, admit it, whenever you're right, shut up.

Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden.

God's great cosmic joke on the human race was requiring that men and women live together in marriage.

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

Love is often the fruit of marriage.

Marriage, yes, it is the supreme felicity of life. I concede it. And it is also the supreme tragedy of life. The deeper the love the surer the tragedy. And the more disconsolating when it comes.

Housbondes at chirche dore she hadde fyve.

I … chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as would wear well.

Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she’s a householder.

Wishing each other, not divorced, but dead; They lived respectably as man and wife.

A marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit.

And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.

Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies are ended by a marriage.

Lord of yourself, uncumber’d with a wife.