Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
~ Francis Bacon

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.
~ Enid Bagnold

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
~ Joseph Addison

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.
~ Aeschylus

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
~ Hoshang N. Akhtar

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!
~ Shana Alexander

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.
~ Marty Allen

Marriage is the death of hope.
~ Woody Allen

The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..
~ Woody Allen

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.
~ Barbara De Angelis

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.
~ Barbara De Angelis

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.
~ Louis K. Anspacher

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has ''never had a chance, poor devil,'' you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.
~ Margot Asquith

I married beneath me. All women do.
~ Lady Nancy Astor

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
~ W. H. Auden

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
~ Jane Austen

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
~ Jane Austen

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
~ Honore De Balzac

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.
~ Honore De Balzac