Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

- Diane Ackerman

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

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

Bush, Barbara

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

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

Pancoast, Mal

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

10.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

11.

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

Murray, Joe

12.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

13.

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

Wilde, Oscar

14.

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

15.

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

16.

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

Winters, Shelley

17.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

18.

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

Byron, Lord

19.

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

20.

A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

21.

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

22.

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

Farquhar, George

23.

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

Halen

24.

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

25.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

26.

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

27.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

28.

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

Luther, Martin

29.

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

30.

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

31.

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

Rowland, Helen

32.

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

33.

Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

34.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

35.

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

36.

Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

41.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

42.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

43.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

44.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

45.

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

46.

There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

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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

48.

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

William Shakespeare

49.

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.

50.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French