Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Bundy, Peg

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

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

Spencer, Herbert

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

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.

Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

12.

Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

13.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

14.

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

Wilde, Oscar

15.

In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

16.

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

17.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

18.

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

Bible

19.

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

20.

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

Bennett, Jill

21.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

22.

Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

23.

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

24.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

25.

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

26.

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

27.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

28.

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

Carson, Johnny

29.

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

Winters, Shelley

30.

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

31.

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

32.

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

33.

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

Wycherley, William

34.

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

35.

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

Smith, Sydney

36.

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

37.

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

Bible

38.

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

39.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

40.

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

Landers, Ann

41.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

42.

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

43.

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

44.

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

45.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

46.

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

Prior, Matthew

47.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

48.

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

Will Rogers

49.

Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

50.

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