Quotes about Marriage

A Muslim must not hate his wife and if he be displeased with one bad quality in her, then let him be pleased with another that is good.

An intelligent man only argues with his wife when she has lost her voice.

The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.

I'm amazed, as quirky, individual and selfish as most of us are, that anyone stays married for long.

Seven hundred wives, and three hundred concubines, are worse than none; and, however it may carry with the appearance of heightened enjoyment, it defeats all the felicity of affection, by leaving it no point to fix upon; divided love is never happy.

This marriage union with Christ is the most noble and excellent union:

One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry.

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level.

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

You seem to forget that I am married, and the one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.

The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.