Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Marriage

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Proverb, Spanish

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

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

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

Luther, Martin

10.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

11.

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

Proverb, Scottish

12.

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

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

Winters, Shelley

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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

15.

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

16.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

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

Dave Meurer

18.

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

Miller, Harlan

19.

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

Fuller, Thomas

20.

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

Hesiod

21.

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

Samuel, Herbert

22.

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

23.

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

Vries, Peter De

24.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

25.

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

26.

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

Prior, Matthew

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.

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

29.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

32.

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

William Shakespeare

33.

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

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.

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

Novalis

36.

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

37.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

38.

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

39.

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

Wilde, Oscar

40.

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

41.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

42.

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

43.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

44.

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

Rowland, Helen

45.

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

Proverb, German

46.

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

William Shakespeare

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

50.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord