The repository contains 68 quotes in the category “Marriage.”
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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell. It is simply purgatory.
President Abraham Lincoln
1809 — 1865
I have always considered marriage as the most interesting event of one’s life, the foundation of happiness or misery.
President George Washington
1732 — 1799
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
Benjamin Franklin
1706 — 1790
”I am” is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that “I do” is the longest sentence?
George Carlin
1937 — 2008
I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
Groucho Marx
1890 — 1977
It looks as if Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the grooms.
Groucho Marx
1890 — 1977
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Mark Twain
1835 — 1910
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
Oscar Wilde
1854 — 1900
The proper basis for a marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.
Oscar Wilde
1854 — 1900
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.
Oscar Wilde
1854 — 1900
A husband should not teach his wife to drive and a wife should not teach her husband to drive. Driving lessons are a lot cheaper than a divorce.
Thomas Sowell
1930 —
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Voltaire
1694 — 1778
He marries best who puts it off until it is too late.
H. L. Mencken
1880 — 1956
Suicide is a belated acquiescence in the opinion of one’s wife’s relatives.
H. L. Mencken
1880 — 1956
The honeymoon is the time during which the bride believes the bridegroom’s word of honor.
H. L. Mencken
1880 — 1956
Wealth: Any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one’s wife’s sister’s husband.
H. L. Mencken
1880 — 1956
If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier. And a good deal more foolish.
H. L. Mencken
1880 — 1956
Alimony: The ransom that the happy pay to the devil.
H. L. Mencken
1880 — 1956
A bachelor is one who wants a wife, but is glad he hasn’t got her.
H. L. Mencken
1880 — 1956
Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner’s inquest.
H. L. Mencken
1880 — 1956
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