Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Key, Ellen

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Peter Blake

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Young, Brigham

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 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

Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

12.

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

13.

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

14.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

15.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

16.

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

Elizabeth I

17.

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

Knowles, F. M.

18.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

19.

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

20.

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

21.

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

Hesiod

22.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

23.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

24.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

25.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

26.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

27.

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

Winters, Shelley

28.

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

29.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

30.

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

31.

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

32.

Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

33.

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

Proverb

34.

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

35.

Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

36.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

37.

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

38.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

39.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

40.

In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

41.

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

42.

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

Kinison, Sam

43.

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

44.

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

Fuller, Thomas

45.

Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

46.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest --never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Landers, Ann

47.

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

Maurois, Andre

48.

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

49.

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

50.

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