Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Marriage

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

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

Alexander, Shana

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

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

Clarke, W. A.

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

10.

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

Rowland, Helen

11.

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

12.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

13.

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

14.

Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

15.

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

16.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

17.

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

Byron, Lord

18.

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

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.

Ann Landers

20.

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

Kinison, Sam

21.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

22.

Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

23.

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

24.

Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

25.

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

Cosby, Bill

26.

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

27.

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

28.

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

29.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

30.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

31.

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

32.

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

William Shakespeare

33.

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

34.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

35.

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

36.

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

37.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

38.

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

39.

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

Vries, Peter De

40.

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

41.

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

42.

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

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

Mickey Rooney

44.

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

Winters, Shelley

45.

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

46.

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