Husband Wife Quotes in English
- Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night. ~ St. Jerome
- A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. ~ Michel de Montaigne
- Husbands are like fires. They go out when unattended. ~ Zsa Zsa Gabor
- Marriage changes passion – suddenly you’re in bed with a relative.
- A dress that zips up the back will bring a husband and wife together. ~ James H. Boren
- Divorce: The past tense of marriage.
- A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time. ~ Anne Taylor Fleming
- The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds – they mature slowly. ~ Peter De Vries
- A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. ~ Helen Rowland
- Marriage is a mistake every man should make. ~ George Jessel
- What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
- I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. ~ Rita Rudner
- 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. ~ George Bernard Shaw
- Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. ~ Simone Signoret
- Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate. ~ Barnett R. Brickner
- Never get married in the morning, because you never know who you’ll meet that night. ~ Paul Hornung
- More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse. ~ Doug Larson
- A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. ~ Mignon McLaughlin
- There is no such cozy combination as man and wife. ~ Menander
- It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being. ~ Benjamin Disraeli
- A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn’t want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing. ~ W. Somerset Maugham
- There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for granted relationship. ~ Iris Murdoch
- Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose. ~ Beverley Nichols
- Love is a flower which turns into fruit at marriage. ~ Finnish Proverb
- A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year. ~ Paul Sweeney
- All marriages are happy. It’s the living together afterward that causes all the trouble. ~ Raymond Hull
- Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you. ~ Jean Rostand
- Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. ~ Isadora Duncan
- The reason for much matrimony is patrimony. ~ Ogden Nash
- Three rings of marriage are the engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering.
- Though marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves ’em still two fools. ~ William Congreve
- A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he’s finished. ~ Zsa Zsa Gabor
- One should never know too precisely whom one has married. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- Bigamy is having one husband or wife too many. Monogamy is the same. ~ Oscar Wilde
- Like good wine, marriage gets better with age – once you learn to keep a cork in it. ~ Gene Perret
- I never knew what real happiness was until I got married. And by then it was too late. ~ Max Kauffman
- Don’t marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can’t live without. ~ James C. Dobson
- Mother-in-law: a woman who destroys her son-in-law’s peace of mind by giving him a piece of hers.
- How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being. ~ Oscar Wilde
- Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. ~ Stephen Leacock
- When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. ~ Sacha Guitry
- Never strike your wife – even with a flower. ~ Hindu Proverb
- When a girl marries she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one. ~ Helen Rowland
- Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won’t even lay down his newspaper to talk to you. ~ Helen Rowland
- A wedding is just like a funeral except that you get to smell your own flowers. ~ Grace Hansen
- Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner. ~ Charles Caleb Colton
- I’ve been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out. ~ Lee Grant
- God created sex. Priests created marriage. ~ Voltaire
- The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret. ~ Henny Youngman
- I guess walking slow getting married is because it gives you time to maybe change your mind. ~ Virginia Cary Hudson
- Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them. ~ Ogden Nash