Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Winters, Shelley

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

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

Proverb, Scottish

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

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

10.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

11.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

13.

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

14.

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

Pearl Buck

15.

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

16.

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

Luther, Martin

17.

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

Mae West

18.

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

19.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

20.

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

21.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

22.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

23.

A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

24.

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

Proverb, German

25.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

26.

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

27.

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

Proverb, Spanish

28.

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

29.

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

30.

As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

31.

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

Jong, Erica

32.

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

33.

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

34.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

35.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

36.

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

37.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

38.

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

39.

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

40.

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

Balzac, Honore De

41.

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

42.

The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

43.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

44.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

48.

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

William Shakespeare

49.

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

Rita Rudner

50.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.