Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Coward, Noel

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

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

Mickey Rooney

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

12.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

13.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

14.

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

15.

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

16.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

17.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

19.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

20.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

21.

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

22.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

23.

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

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.

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

26.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

27.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

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

William Shakespeare

29.

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

Rooney, Mickey

30.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

31.

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

32.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

33.

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

34.

Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

35.

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

36.

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

37.

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

Hull, Raymond

38.

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

39.

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

40.

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

41.

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

42.

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

43.

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

44.

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

45.

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

46.

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

Bennett, Jill

47.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

48.

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.

49.

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

50.

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George