Motivational Quotes

Marriage

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

- Amiel, Henri Frederic

Best Quotes about Marriage

1.

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

2.

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

3.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

4.

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

5.

O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

6.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

7.

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

8.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

9.

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

10.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

11.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

12.

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

13.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

14.

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

15.

A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

16.

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

17.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

18.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

19.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

20.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

21.

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

22.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

23.

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

24.

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

25.

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

26.

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

27.

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

28.

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

29.

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

30.

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

31.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

32.

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

33.

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

34.

To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

35.

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

36.

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

37.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

38.

Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

39.

Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

40.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

41.

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

42.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

43.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

44.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

45.

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

46.

The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

47.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

48.

All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

49.

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

50.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.