Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Nick Faldo

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Balzac, Honore De

Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

10.

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

11.

Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

12.

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

13.

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

14.

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

15.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

16.

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

William Shakespeare

17.

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

18.

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

Heine, Heinrich

19.

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

Dave Meurer

20.

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

21.

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

Penn, William

22.

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

23.

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

Rowland, Helen

24.

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

25.

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

26.

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

27.

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

28.

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

29.

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

Vries, Peter De

30.

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

Cosby, Bill

31.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

32.

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

33.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

34.

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

35.

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

36.

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

37.

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

Baum, Vicki

38.

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

Bush, Barbara

39.

We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

40.

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

41.

A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

42.

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

43.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

44.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

45.

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

Wilson, Earl

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A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.