Motivational Quotes

Marriage

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

- John Scalzi

Best Quotes about Marriage

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

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

Barrymore, John

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

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

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

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

Rowland, Helen

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

10.

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

Luther, Martin

11.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

12.

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

Victoria, Queen

13.

Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

14.

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

15.

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

Jong, Erica

16.

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

17.

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

18.

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

Key, Ellen

19.

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

20.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

21.

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

22.

Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

23.

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

24.

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

25.

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

26.

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

27.

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

Byron, Lord

28.

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

Kauffman, Max

29.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

30.

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

31.

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

Novalis

32.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

33.

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

Skelton, Red

34.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

35.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

36.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

37.

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

38.

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

Lawana Blackwell

39.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

40.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

41.

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

Allen, Woody

42.

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

43.

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

Rita Rudner

44.

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

45.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

46.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

47.

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

Dave Meurer

48.

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

Proverb, Spanish

49.

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

50.

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

Duncan, Isadora