Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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

Bundy, Peg

10.

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

Bible

11.

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

12.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

13.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

14.

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

15.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

16.

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

17.

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

Novalis

18.

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

Duncan, Isadora

19.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest --never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Landers, Ann

20.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

21.

A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

22.

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

23.

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

24.

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

Proverb, Scottish

25.

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

26.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

27.

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

28.

There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

29.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

30.

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

31.

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

32.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Ann Landers

33.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

34.

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

Proverb, German

35.

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

36.

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

37.

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

38.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

39.

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

Miller, Harlan

40.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

41.

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

42.

The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

43.

The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

44.

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

45.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

46.

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

47.

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

48.

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

William Shakespeare

49.

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

Luther, Martin

50.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma