Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

- Heine, Heinrich

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

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

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

10.

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

Vass, Susan

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

14.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

15.

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

16.

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

William Shakespeare

17.

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

18.

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

Pearl Buck

19.

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

20.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

21.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

22.

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

Maurois, Andre

23.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

24.

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

25.

The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

26.

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

27.

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

William Shakespeare

28.

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

29.

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

Proverb, German

30.

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

31.

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

32.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

33.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

34.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

35.

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

36.

Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

37.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

38.

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

39.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

40.

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

Pancoast, Mal

41.

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

Hesiod

42.

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

43.

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

44.

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

45.

You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

46.

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

47.

Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

48.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

49.

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

50.

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De