Today married, tomorrow marred. [ French Proverb ]
Married in haste, we repent at leisure. [ Congreve ]
She that is born a beauty is half married. [ Ouida ]
A married man turns his staff into a stake. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
A young man married is a man that's marred. [ William Shakespeare ]
He that tells his wife is but lately married. [ Proverb ]
He that tells his wife news is but newly married. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
In married life three is company and two is none. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]
Envy and Idleness married together begot Curiosity. [ Proverb ]
Take heed of a person marked, and a widow thrice married. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Well-married, a man is winged: ill-matched, he is shackled. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
Nothing ages women so rapidly as having married the general rule. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]
A young woman married to an old man, must behave like an old woman. [ Proverb ]
The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
A man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]
He that is needy when he is married, shall scarce be rich when he is buried. [ Proverb ]
The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies in married life have come from poets. [ Whipple ]
The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happy married life. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]
When a man and woman are married, their romance ceases and their history commences. [ Rochebrune ]
So, with decorum all things carried, Miss frowned, and blushed, and then was married. [ Goldsmith ]
One year of joy, another of comfort, the rest of content, make the married life happy. [ Proverb ]
English women conceal their feelings until after they are married, then they show them. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
We bachelors laugh and show our teeth, but you married* men laugh until your heart ache. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
A woman is to be from her house three times; when she is christened., married, and buried. [ Proverb ]
I have cured her from lying in the hedge, quoth the good man when he married his daughter. [ Proverb ]
A bachelor seeks a wife to avoid solitude; a married man seeks society to avoid the tête-à-tête. [ De Varennes ]
The happiness of married life depends upon the power of making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness. [ Selden ]
All men are married women's property; that is the only true definition of what married women's property really is. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]
To nil married men be this caution, which they should duly tender as their life: Neither to doat too much, nor doubt a wife. [ Massinger ]
There is a magic in the word duty, something I know not what, which sustains magistrates, inflames warriors, and cools married people. [ H. Dupuy ]
Three letters! but one syllable! Still less, a single motion of the head, and all is done! one is married for ever! I do not know any breakneck comparable to it. [ A. Ricard ]
She is not a brilliant woman; she is not even an intellectual one; but there is such a thing as a genius for affection, and she has it. It has been good for her husband that he married her. [ Helen Hunt ]
There is a Spanish proverb that a lapidary who would grow rich must buy of those who go to be executed, as not caring how cheap they sell; and sell to those who go to be married, as not caring how dear they buy. [ Fuller ]
It is not easy to surround life with any circumstances in which youth will not be delightful; and I am afraid that, whether married or unmarried, we shall find the vesture of terrestrial existence more heavy and cumbrous the longer it is worn. [ Steele ]
No unity can last, in married life, unless the fellowship of hearts is accompanied by the fellowship of minds. As a woman loses the charms of her youth, her husband must perceive that her mind is developing, and love must be perpetuated by esteem. [ Dupanloup ]
He was a cowboy, mister, and he loved the land. He loved it so much he made a woman out of dirt and married her. But when he kissed her, she disintegrated. Later, at the funeral, when the preacher said, Dust to dust,
some people laughed, and the cowboy shot them. At his hanging, he told the others, I'll be waiting for you in heaven - with a gun.
[ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
The misery of human life is made up of large masses, each separated from the other by certain intervals. One year the death of a child; years after, a failure in trade; after another longer or shorter interval, a daughter may have married unhappily; in all - but the singularly unfortunate, the integral parts that compose the sum-total of the unhappiness of a man's life are easily counted and distinctly remembered. [ Coleridge ]