Motivational Quotes

Marriage

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

- Chatterton, Thomas

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Congreve, William

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

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

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

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.

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

Proverb, Scottish

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

10.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

11.

Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

12.

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

Duncan, Isadora

13.

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

14.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

15.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

16.

A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

17.

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

Young, Brigham

18.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

19.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

20.

Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

21.

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

22.

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

Ruckett

23.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

24.

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

25.

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

William Shakespeare

26.

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Skelton, Red

30.

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

31.

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

Rowland, Helen

32.

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

36.

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

37.

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

Carson, Johnny

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

William Shakespeare

41.

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

42.

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

43.

The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

44.

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

Proverb

45.

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

46.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

47.

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

William Shakespeare

48.

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

Peter Blake

49.

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