Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Key, Ellen

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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

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

Congreve, William

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

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

Bible

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Rieux, Madame De

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

Lawana Blackwell

10.

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

11.

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

12.

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

13.

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

14.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

15.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

16.

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

17.

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

Dupuy, Alexis

18.

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

Carson, Johnny

19.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

20.

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

Heine, Heinrich

21.

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

Winters, Shelley

22.

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

23.

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

Proverb

24.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

25.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

26.

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

27.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

28.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

29.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

30.

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

31.

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

Ruckett

32.

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

33.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

34.

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

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Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

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

Bible

37.

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

38.

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

39.

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

40.

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

William Shakespeare

41.

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

Rowland, Helen

42.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

43.

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

Graham, James

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When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

46.

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

Pancoast, Mal

47.

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

Rita Rudner

48.

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

Hitopadesa

49.

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

Proverb, German

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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