Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Rowland, Helen

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

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

10.

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

Hull, Raymond

11.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

12.

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

Fuller, Thomas

13.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

14.

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

William Shakespeare

15.

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

Rooney, Mickey

16.

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

17.

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

18.

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

Congreve, William

19.

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

Proverb

20.

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

21.

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.

Diana, Princess of Wales

22.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

23.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

24.

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

Vries, Peter De

25.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

26.

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.

27.

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

28.

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

Bush, Barbara

29.

Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

30.

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

31.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

33.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

34.

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

Skelton, Red

35.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

36.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

37.

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

38.

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

39.

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

40.

Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

41.

It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

42.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

43.

Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

44.

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

William Shakespeare

45.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

46.

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

47.

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

Spencer, Herbert

48.

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

Bible

49.

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

50.

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar