# Quotes about marriage

- Quotes: 8
- Authors: 6
- Broader topic: [Quotes about family](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/family.md)
- Topic page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/marriage

## Quotes

> Love is love, but marriage is an investment.

[Erica Jong](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong.md) · [How to Save Your Own Life](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong/how-to-save-your-own-life.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong/how-to-save-your-own-life/love-is-love.md)

Topics: [marriage](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/marriage.md)

> Having a baby with him meant marrying that face forever.

[Erica Jong](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong.md) · [How to Save Your Own Life](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong/how-to-save-your-own-life.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong/how-to-save-your-own-life/having-a-baby.md)

Topics: [children](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/children.md), [marriage](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/marriage.md)

> It was the period of my mental progress which I have now reached that I formed the friendship which has been the honour and chief blessing of my existence, as well as the source of a great part of all that I have attempted to do, or hope to effect hereafter, for human improvement. My first introduction to the lady who, after a friendship of twenty years, consented to become my wife, was in 1830, when I was in my twenty-fifth and she in her twenty-third year.

Autobiography · p. 184

Topics: [marriage](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/marriage.md)

> A man may be a fool and not know it — but not if he is married.

[H.L. Mencken](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hl-mencken.md) · [A Mencken Chrestomathy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hl-mencken/a-mencken-chrestomathy.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hl-mencken/a-mencken-chrestomathy/a-man-may.md)

Topics: [marriage](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/marriage.md)

> The rest of the story, to Grand's thinking, was very simple. The common lot of married couples. You get married, you go on loving a bit longer, you work. And you work so hard that it makes you forget to love.

[Albert Camus](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus.md) · [The Plague](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus/the-plague.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus/the-plague/the-rest-of-the.md)

Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [marriage](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/marriage.md)

> He was on his way to see Harriet about the alimony payments. He still loved Harriet, even though while they were married she had systematically attempted to commit adultery with all the R's in the Manhattan telephone directory.

[Woody Allen](https://www.leafyquotes.com/woody-allen.md) · [Without Feathers](https://www.leafyquotes.com/woody-allen/without-feathers.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/woody-allen/without-feathers/he-was-on-his.md)

Topics: [marriage](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/marriage.md)

> The confusion of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.

[George Bernard Shaw](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-bernard-shaw.md) · [Man and Superman](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-bernard-shaw/man-and-superman.md) · p. 121 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-bernard-shaw/man-and-superman/the-confusion-of-marriage.md)

Topics: [morality](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/morality.md), [marriage](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/marriage.md)

> Geniuses are horrid, intolerant, easily offended, sleeplessly self-conscious men, who expect their wives to be angels with no further business in life than to pet and worship their husbands. Even at the best they are not comfortable men to live with; and a perfect husband is one who is perfectly comfortable to live with.

[George Bernard Shaw](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-bernard-shaw.md) · [Love Among The Artists](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-bernard-shaw/love-among-the-artists.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-bernard-shaw/love-among-the-artists/geniuses-are-horrid.md)

Topics: [marriage](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/marriage.md)