Accident counts for much in companionship as in marriage.
Henry Brooks Adams
If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?
Mary Astell ‘Some Reflections upon Marriage’ (1706 ed.) preface
He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question when a man should marry? ‘A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.’
Charles Babbage
Women—one half the human race at least—care fifty times more for a marriage than a ministry.
Walter Bagehot
Marriage always demands the finest arts of insincerity possible between two human beings.
Vicki Baum
Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
William Blake ‘The Marriage of Heaven and Hell’ (1790-3) ‘The Argument’
All tragedies are finished by a death,
All comedies are ended by a marriage;
The future states of both are left to faith.
George Gordon
Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit.
Margaret Cavendish
Our wedding was many years ago. The celebration continues to this day.
Gene Perret
Here’s to matrimony, the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented!
Heinrich Heine
The reason for much matrimony is patrimony.
Ogden Nash
Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity.
Author Unknown
Marriage is a great institution, but I’m not ready for an institution.
Mae West
It takes a loose rein to keep a marriage tight.
John Stevenson
Mistress: something between a mister and a mattress.
Author Unknown
Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie.
Author Unknown