Wedding Sayings

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old wedding quotes, wedding sayings, and wedding proverbs.
An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.
- Booth Tarkington
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.
- Georg C. Lichtenberg
If you are afraid of loneliness, don’t marry.
- Chekhov
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
- Nietzsche

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman
- Joseph Joubert
Never strike your wife – even with a flower.
- Hindu Proverb
Never marry for money. Ye’ll borrow it cheaper
- Scottish Proverb
I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage
- Mohandas Gandhi
Marriage is like a pair of shears Oft times working in opposite directions, but punishing anyone that comes between them
- Sydney Smith

He’s the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of
- Mae West
No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married
- Benjamin Disraeli
In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
- Samuel Butler
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
- Benjamin Franklin
Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
- Thomas Fuller

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.
- Michel de Montaigne
The more you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes.
- Amy Grant
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.
- Leo Tolstoy
Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.
- Aeschylus
A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude.
- Rainer Maria Rilke

There is no such cozy combination as man and wife.
- Menander
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
- Socrates
In all of the wedding cake, hope is the sweetest of plums.
- Douglas Jerrold
One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
- Honore de Balzac
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