Motivational Quotes

Marriage

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

- Chopin, Daniel

Best Quotes about Marriage

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

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

Young, Brigham

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

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

Victoria, Queen

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

10.

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

11.

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

Peter Blake

12.

All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

13.

Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

14.

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

15.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

16.

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.

17.

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

Bible

18.

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

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.

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

21.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

22.

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

Hesiod

23.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

24.

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

25.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

26.

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

Balzac, Honore De

27.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

28.

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

29.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

30.

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

Mead, Margaret

31.

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

32.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

33.

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

34.

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

35.

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

Allen, Woody

36.

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

37.

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

Bible

38.

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

39.

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

40.

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

41.

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

42.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

43.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

44.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

45.

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.