Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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

Ruckett

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

William Shakespeare

10.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

11.

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

12.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

13.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

14.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

15.

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

16.

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

17.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

18.

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.

19.

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

Vries, Peter De

20.

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

21.

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

22.

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

Pearl Buck

23.

Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

24.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

25.

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

Baum, Vicki

26.

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

27.

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

28.

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

29.

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

30.

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

Clarke, W. A.

31.

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

Murray, Joe

32.

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

33.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

34.

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

35.

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

36.

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

37.

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

38.

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

Luther, Martin

39.

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

40.

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

41.

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

Mae West

42.

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

Novalis

43.

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

Miller, Harlan

44.

When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

45.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

46.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

47.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

48.

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.