Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

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

William Shakespeare

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

Marx, Groucho

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

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

10.

In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

11.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

13.

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

Barrymore, John

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

17.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

18.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

19.

I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

20.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

21.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

22.

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

23.

Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

24.

A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

25.

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

Rudner, Rita

26.

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

27.

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

28.

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

Mencken, H. L.

29.

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

30.

A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

31.

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

32.

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

Duncan, Isadora

33.

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

34.

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

35.

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

36.

When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

37.

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

Will Rogers

38.

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

Key, Ellen

39.

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

Vries, Peter De

40.

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

41.

Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

42.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

43.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

44.

Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

45.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

46.

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

47.

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

Jong, Erica

48.

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

Fuller, Thomas

49.

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

50.

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

Young, Brigham