Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

- Baskins

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

10.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

11.

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

12.

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

13.

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

14.

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

15.

Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

16.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

17.

[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

18.

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

19.

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

20.

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

21.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

22.

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

23.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

24.

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

25.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

26.

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

27.

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

28.

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

Hesiod

29.

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

30.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

31.

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

32.

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

33.

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

34.

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

35.

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

36.

Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.

Mickey Rooney

37.

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

38.

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

39.

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

40.

Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

41.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

42.

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

43.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

44.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

45.

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

47.

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

48.

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

49.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

50.

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis