President Johnson and I have a lot in common. We were both born in small towns and we’re both fortunate in the fact that we think we married above ourselves.

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that’s called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country.

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

Regarding marriage, it – somehow, it didn’t happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.

We’re so immaturely cynical as a culture. We’re not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they’re stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another.

Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it’s absolutely true.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Why do Jewish men die before their wives? They want to.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Never get married in college; it’s hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you’ve already made one mistake.

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

I’ve been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she’ll kill me.

I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror.

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

My mother and my father have been married 50 years, and he’s just started to understand that something’s wrong with the system. He accepted the whole thing, you see. Yet this industrious kind of engagement didn’t bring him the success, according to American terms, that he wanted. I was probably affected by this very much. In fact, I know I was.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can’t sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can’t sleep with the window open.

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.

Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

As you get older, you have more responsibilities; you have more commitments, more events, kids, you’re married now. You still have all the things that you’ve had, plus you just keep adding.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

I’m married. My wife, Stella – a beautiful woman. She’s brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom.

It’s hard for anybody who’s been with me not to feel starved for affection when I’m making love to my ideas. Maybe it’s not meant for me to settle down and be married.

He knows my limitations and where I’m a good wife and a good mom.

The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Alimony – the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.

My husband says I look like a Q-tip.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner’s inquest.

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?

I don’t think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be.

I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that’s not what America’s about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don’t contract them.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.

I’ve been fortunate to have had the life I had prior to Hollywood. I wasn’t starving; I was going to eat the next day.

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.

I’m not a real movie star. I’ve still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back.

It’s a funny thing that when a man hasn’t anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

I don’t think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.

My husband is everything to me and without him it’s just not the same.

I’m one of the luckiest people on earth.

The Bible is clear – God’s definition of marriage is between a man and a woman.

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.