These marriage quotes from famous people are a good indicator of their outlook on life. Cynical, amusing, bitter or thoughtful – all these emotions are here.

Anyone who has never been married might regard the sentiments expressed as exaggerated or simply untrue. If so, they are in for a shock! There is no substitute for experience – bitter or otherwise.

It's amazing how much truth is contained in the few words of a quote. These quotes came from famous actors, authors, poets, or comedians. But they were also people, with all the feelings and emotions common to everyone.

Marriage quotes exist in their thousands. Because we know that your time is precious we, at MommaBearz, have selected 19 of the best...

Marriage Quote 1:

To marry is to halve your rights, and double your duties – Arthur Schopenhauer

Marriage Quote 2:

Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, marry a swan – Quentin Crisp

Marriage Quote 3:

God created sex, Man created marriage – Voltaire

Marriage Quote 4:

A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex, and all that sort of thing – W. Somerset Maugham

Marriage Quote 5:

My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked – Winston Churchill

Marriage Quote 6:

Never marry at all. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed – Oscar Wilde

Marriage Quote 7:

Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers – Alan King

Marriage Quote 8:

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences – Isadora Duncan

Marriage Quote 9:

The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing – and then marry him – Cher

Marriage Quote 10:

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same – Erica Jong

Marriage Quote 11:

Why does a women work ten years to change a man, then complain he's not the man she married – Barbra Streisand

Marriage Quote 12:

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married – Katherine Hepburn

Marriage Quote 13:

Personally, I know nothing about sex, because I have always been married – Zsa Zsa Gabor

Marriage Quote 14:

Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere – Groucho Marx

Marriage Quote 15:

In the early years you fight because you don't understand each other. In the later years, you fight because you do – Joan Didion

Marriage Quote 16:

There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again – Clint Eastwood

Marriage Quote 17:

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury – Sylvester Stallone

Marriage Quote 18:

When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her – Sacha Guitry

Marriage Quote 19:

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed – Hoshang N. Akhtar