It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time. – Balzac, Physiologie du mariage, 1829
A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors. – Benjamin Franklin
And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living! – Tertullian
The surest way to be alone is to get married. – Gloria Steinem
I never even believed in divorce until after I got married. – Diane Ford
Courtship to marriage is as a very witty prologue to a very dull play. – William Congreve, The Old Bachelor, 1693
They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake. – Alexander Pope, The Wife of Bath, 1713
Marriage is like a phone call in the night: first the ring, and then you wake up. – Evelyn Hendrickson
The music at a marriage procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers entering on a battle. – Heinrich Heine, “Thoughts and Fancies,” translated from German by John Snodgrass
The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing — and then marry him. – Cher
Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in? – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Representative Men, 1850
No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single. – H.L. Mencken
Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance. – Michel de Montaigne
Men should keep their eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards. – Madeleine de Scudery
No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married. – Benjamin Disraeli
In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar, a custom which is still continued. – Helen Rowland, Reflections of a Bachelor Girl, 1909
The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep. – A.P. Herbert
Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. – Author unknown
Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife. – Franz Schubert
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory. – Abraham Lincoln
