Quotes about marriage
145 quotes from 90 people
Basically my wife was immature. I’d be at home in my bath and she’d come in and sink my boats.
Woody Allenborn 1935Standup Comic (1999)My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Robin Williams1951–2014Good Will HuntingMen marry because they are tired; women because they are curious. Both are disappointed.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), A Woman of No Importance (1893), Act IIIIn contextThe appropriate age for marriage is around eighteen for girls and thirty-seven for men.
Aristotle384–322 BCPolitics, Book VII, 1335a.27Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Poor Richard’s Almanack
J. R. R. Tolkien1892–1973Letter to his son Michael (March 1941)A man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.
A husband is what’s left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol II (1770) p. 182Marriage is the most natural state of man, and the state in which you will find solid happiness.
