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| The secret of a good marriage is forgiving your partner for marrying you in the first place. | | Sacha Guitry | |
| There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose. | | Oscar Wilde | |
| There would be more good marriages if the marriage partners didn't live together. | | Friedrich Nietzsche | |
| Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil | | Lord Byron | |
| To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all. | | Helen Rowland | |
| To marry a woman who you love and who loves you is to lay a wager with her as to who will stop loving the other first | | Albert Camus | |
| Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building | | Oscar Wilde | |
| Venus, a beautiful, good-natured lady, was the goddess of love; Juno, a terrible shrew, the goddess of marriage; and they were always mortal enemies | | Jonathan Swift | |
| What kind of power is it that dares intrude between me and my bride, the bride I myself have chosen and who has chosen me? And this power would command her to be true to me; does she then need to be so commanded? And is she to be true to me only because a third party commands it, one whom she therefore loves more than me? | | Søren Kierkegaard | |
| When a man makes a woman his wife, it's the highest compliment he can pay her, and it's usually the last. | | Helen Rowland | |
| When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs. | | Oscar Wilde | |
| When entering into a marriage one ought to ask oneself: do you believe you are going to enjoy talking with this woman up into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory, but most of the time you are together will be devoted to conversation. | | Friedrich Nietzsche | |
| When marrying, one should ask oneself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this woman into your old age? | | Friedrich Nietzsche | |
| Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage | | Benjamin Franklin | |
| Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. So each is inevitably disappointed. | | Albert Einstein | |
| You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage. | | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| You may write it on his tombstone, You may cut it on his card, That a young man married is a young man marred | | Rudyard Kipling | |
