Motivational Quotes

Marriage

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Nelms, Cynthia

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

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

10.

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

11.

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

12.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

13.

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

Penn, William

14.

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

15.

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

16.

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

17.

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

18.

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

Mencken, H. L.

19.

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

Victoria, Queen

20.

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

William Shakespeare

21.

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

Proverb, German

22.

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

23.

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

24.

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

Proverb

25.

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

26.

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

27.

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

28.

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

29.

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

Vries, Peter De

30.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

31.

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

32.

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

33.

Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

34.

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

Miller, Harlan

35.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

36.

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

37.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

38.

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

39.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

40.

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.

41.

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

Baum, Vicki

42.

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

43.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

44.

If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

45.

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

46.

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

47.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

48.

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

49.

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

Spencer, Herbert

50.

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.