Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

William Shakespeare

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

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

Dave Meurer

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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

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

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

Moliere

10.

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

11.

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

Wycherley, William

12.

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

13.

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

14.

Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

15.

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

William Shakespeare

16.

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

17.

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

18.

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

Smith, Sydney

19.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

20.

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

Mencken, H. L.

21.

A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

22.

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

23.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

24.

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

Eliot, George

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Fuller, Thomas

28.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

29.

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

30.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

36.

A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

37.

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

Cosby, Bill

38.

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

39.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

40.

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

41.

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

42.

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

43.

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

Pancoast, Mal

44.

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

45.

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

46.

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

47.

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

48.

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

49.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

50.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish