Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

1.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

2.

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

3.

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

Rudner, Rita

4.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

5.

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

6.

Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

7.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

8.

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

Young, Brigham

9.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

10.

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

11.

Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.

Rooney, Mickey

12.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

14.

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

Lawana Blackwell

15.

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

16.

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

17.

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

Winters, Shelley

18.

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

19.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

20.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

21.

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

22.

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

Miller, Harlan

23.

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

24.

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

Spencer, Herbert

25.

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

William Shakespeare

26.

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

27.

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

Kinison, Sam

28.

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

Cosby, Bill

29.

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

30.

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

31.

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

32.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

33.

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

34.

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

Will Rogers

35.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

36.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

37.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

38.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

39.

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

Duncan, Isadora

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.

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

42.

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

43.

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

Bible

44.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

45.

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

46.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

47.

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

48.

O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

49.

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

50.

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas