"When a wife has a good husband, it is easily seen on her face."
Read quote
26 likes
Marriage quotes
Marriage
1.9K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Marriage
Browse quotes that often appear alongside marriage — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Marriage quotes (page 10 of 96)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life."
Read quote
25 likes
"Maybe, in the final analysis, they saw me as something I wasn't and I tried to turn them into something they could never be. I loved them all but maybe I never understood any of them. I don't think they understood me."
Read quote
25 likes
"Take care of him. And make him feel important. And if you can do that, you'll have a happy and wonderful marriage. Like two out of every ten couples."
Read quote
25 likes
"Marriage is an adventure, like going to war."
Read quote
25 likes
"Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality"
Read quote
25 likes
"It is sometimes essential for a husband and a wife to quarrel - they get to know each other better."
Read quote
25 likes
"Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing"
Read quote
25 likes
"My husband and I have never considered divorce... murder sometimes, but never divorce."
Read quote
25 likes
"I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain."
Read quote
25 likes
"Husband and wife are like the two equal parts of a soybean. If the two parts are put under the earth separately, they will not grow. The soybean will grow only when the parts are covered by the skin. Marriage is the skin which covers each of them and makes them one."
Read quote
24 likes
"It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married."
Read quote
24 likes
"The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along."
Read quote
24 likes
"Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot."
Read quote
24 likes
"Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway."
Read quote
24 likes
"Reason is not what decides love."
Read quote
24 likes
"Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity."
Read quote
24 likes
"For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward."
Read quote
23 likes
"Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, "What will you have, sir?" And I said, "A glass of hemlock.""
Read quote
23 likes
"No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married."
Read quote
23 likes