Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Bundy, Peg

Best Quotes about Marriage

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

10.

I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

11.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

12.

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

13.

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

Will Rogers

14.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

15.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

16.

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

17.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

18.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

19.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

20.

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

Vass, Susan

21.

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

Winters, Shelley

22.

A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

23.

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

24.

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

25.

The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

26.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

27.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

28.

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

Lawana Blackwell

29.

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

30.

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

Ford, Richard

31.

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

32.

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.

33.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

34.

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

Hitopadesa

35.

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

36.

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

37.

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

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

William Shakespeare

42.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

43.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

44.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

45.

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

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My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

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If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

48.

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

Rowland, Helen

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Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]