Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Marriage

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

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

Hesiod

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

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

10.

Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

11.

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

12.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

14.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

15.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

16.

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

17.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

18.

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

19.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

20.

In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

21.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

22.

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

23.

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

24.

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

25.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

26.

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

Samuel, Herbert

27.

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

28.

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

Luther, Martin

29.

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

Maurois, Andre

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

34.

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

35.

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

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Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider