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Marriage92 quotes
Prenuptial agreement. Everybody needs a prenup! People think you gotta be rich to get a prenup, oh no! You got 20 million, your wife want 10, big deal, you ain't starvin'. But if you make 30 thousand, and your wife want 15, you might have to kill her! — Chris Rock · 1996Mawage. Mawage is wot bwings us together today. Mawage, that blessed awangement, that dweam wifin a dweam. — The Impressive Clergyman · 1987If you like it, then you shoulda put a ring on it. — Beyonce · 2008The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1808These men and women...ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right. — Anthony Kennedy · 2015In the true marriage relation, the independence of the husband and wife is equal, the dependence mutual and their obligations reciprocal. — Lucretia Mott · 1880All 92 quotes →Men and women14 quotes
If you like it, then you shoulda put a ring on it. — Beyonce · 2008In the true marriage relation, the independence of the husband and wife is equal, the dependence mutual and their obligations reciprocal. — Lucretia Mott · 1880Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed. — Oscar Wilde · 1890Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. — Genesis 2:24 · 1405 BCNo man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century. — Mark Twain · 1894Even if a husband lives two hundred fucking years, he'll never be able to discover his wife's real nature. I mean, I might be able to comprehend the universe, but, I'll never discover the truth about you. Never. — Paul · 1972All 14 quotes →Love6 quotes
No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century. — Mark Twain · 1894I just woke up one day and I knew. — Summer · 2009Love and marriage rarely can combine,
Although they both are born in the same clime;
Marriage from love, like vinegar from wine—
A sad, sour, sober beverage—by time
Is sharpen'd from its high celestial flavour,
Down to a very homely household savour. — Lord Byron · 1821Marriage is a sacrament which I detest... Because it is the tomb of love. — Giacomo Casanova · 1838Love...is not a big enough word. It's not a big enough word for how I feel about my wife. — Del Griffith · 1987In Marriage without love, there will be Love without Marriage. — Benjamin Franklin · 1734Gender relations5 quotes
Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed. — Oscar Wilde · 1890No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is. — John Stuart Mill · 1869Even if a husband lives two hundred fucking years, he'll never be able to discover his wife's real nature. I mean, I might be able to comprehend the universe, but, I'll never discover the truth about you. Never. — Paul · 1972Meek wifehood is no part of my profession;
I am your friend, but never your possession. — Vera Brittain · 1926Therefore don't you be gentle to your wife either. Don't tell her everything you know, but tell her one thing and keep another thing hidden. — Homer · 700 BCRelationship challenges5 quotes
Marriage must ceaselessly combat a monster that devours everything: habit. — Honore de Balzac · 1829If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more content. — William Shakespeare · 1602Marriage is like life in this-that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1876Never shall I say that marriage brings more joy than pain. — Euripides · 438 BCOne reproaches a lover, but can one reproach a husband, when his only fault is that he no longer loves? — Madame de La Fayette · 1678Relationships5 quotes
If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more content. — William Shakespeare · 1602Love...is not a big enough word. It's not a big enough word for how I feel about my wife. — Del Griffith · 1987In every house of marriage
there's room for an interpreter. — Stanley Kunitz · 1930A divorce is like an amputation: you survive but there's less of you. — Margaret Atwood · 1972I shall never marry; I regard that now as an established fact, and on the whole a very respectable one; I am both happy enough and miserable enough, as it is, and don't wish to add to either side of the account. — Henry James · 1884Challenges of marriage4 quotes
A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, "Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful? Holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. "Yet," added he, "none of you can tell where it pinches me." — Plutarch · 119Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures. — Samuel Johnson · 1759The fundamental error of their matrimonial union; that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeling. — Thomas Hardy · 1894It is so far from being natural for a man and woman to live in a state of marriage, that we find all the motives which they have for remaining in that connection, and the restraints which civilized society imposes to prevent separation, are hardly sufficient to keep them together. — Samuel Johnson · 1772Single life4 quotes
For what is wedlock forced but a hell,
An age of discord and continual strife?
Whereas the contrary bringeth bliss
And is a pattern of celestial peace. — William Shakespeare · 1592I would be married, but I'de have no Wife,
I would be married to a single Life. — Richard Crashaw · 1646Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond. — Thomas Love Peacock · 1817I shall never marry; I regard that now as an established fact, and on the whole a very respectable one; I am both happy enough and miserable enough, as it is, and don't wish to add to either side of the account. — Henry James · 1884Divorce3 quotes
Prenuptial agreement. Everybody needs a prenup! People think you gotta be rich to get a prenup, oh no! You got 20 million, your wife want 10, big deal, you ain't starvin'. But if you make 30 thousand, and your wife want 15, you might have to kill her! — Chris Rock · 1996A divorce is like an amputation: you survive but there's less of you. — Margaret Atwood · 1972Divorce is an abomination. Marriage is for life. — Five and Dime Manager · 2005Gender roles3 quotes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them. — Colossians 3:18-19 · 62Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. — Ephesians 5:22-23 · 62Let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband. — Ephesians 5:33 · 62Infidelity3 quotes
There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded. — Diana, Princess of Wales · 1995Thou shalt not commit adultery. — God · 1405 BCIn Marriage without love, there will be Love without Marriage. — Benjamin Franklin · 1734Broken relationships2 quotes
A divorce is like an amputation: you survive but there's less of you. — Margaret Atwood · 1972As far as our marriage goes, we can do it over the phone. — Jack Twist · 2005Conflict in marriage2 quotes
The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so. — Thornton Wilder · 1954For what is wedlock forced but a hell,
An age of discord and continual strife?
Whereas the contrary bringeth bliss
And is a pattern of celestial peace. — William Shakespeare · 1592Courtship and dating2 quotes
Courtship to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play. — William Congreve · 1693They dream in Courtship, but in Wedlock wake. — Alexander Pope · 1704Fading love2 quotes
If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more content. — William Shakespeare · 1602Marriage is a sacrament which I detest... Because it is the tomb of love. — Giacomo Casanova · 1838Happiness in marriage2 quotes
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. — Jane Austen · 1813You may depend upon it, that a slight contrast of character is very material to happiness in marriage. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1834American politics1 quote
These men and women...ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right. — Anthony Kennedy · 2015Battle of the sexes1 quote
Then shun, oh! shun that wretched state
And all the fawning flatterers hate:
Value yourselves, and men despise
You must be proud if you'll be wise. — Mary Chudleigh · 1703Celibacy1 quote
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures. — Samuel Johnson · 1759Commitment (relationships)1 quote
If you like it, then you shoulda put a ring on it. — Beyonce · 2008Communication1 quote
In every house of marriage
there's room for an interpreter. — Stanley Kunitz · 1930Constitutional law1 quote
These men and women...ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right. — Anthony Kennedy · 2015Dangers of love1 quote
There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage. A marriage in which there is love, but on one side only. — Oscar Wilde · 1895Downsides of marriage1 quote
Marriage is like life in this-that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1876Equal rights1 quote
These men and women...ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right. — Anthony Kennedy · 2015Equality in relationships1 quote
In the true marriage relation, the independence of the husband and wife is equal, the dependence mutual and their obligations reciprocal. — Lucretia Mott · 1880Familiarity breeds contempt1 quote
If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more content. — William Shakespeare · 1602Finding the one1 quote
I just woke up one day and I knew. — Summer · 2009Forgiveness1 quote
You can bear your own Faults, why not a Fault in your Wife? — Benjamin Franklin · 1750Gay rights1 quote
These men and women...ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right. — Anthony Kennedy · 2015