Motivational Quotes

Marriage

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

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

Bible

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

Novalis

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

William Shakespeare

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

10.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

11.

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

12.

As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

13.

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

Hesiod

14.

I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

15.

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

Proverb, Scottish

16.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

17.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

18.

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

19.

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

20.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

21.

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

22.

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

William Shakespeare

23.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

24.

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

25.

Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

26.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

27.

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

Byron, Lord

28.

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

Rudner, Rita

29.

Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

30.

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

Bennett, Jill

31.

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

Mickey Rooney

32.

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

33.

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

34.

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

Pearl Buck

35.

Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

36.

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

37.

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

38.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

39.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

40.

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

Proverb, Spanish

41.

The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

42.

Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

43.

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

44.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

45.

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

Proverb

46.

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

47.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

48.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

49.

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

50.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus