Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Knowles, F. M.

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

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

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

Barrymore, John

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Clarke, W. A.

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

Vries, Peter De

A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

10.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

11.

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

12.

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

13.

The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

14.

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

15.

Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

16.

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

17.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

18.

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

19.

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

20.

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

21.

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

22.

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

Moliere

23.

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

Vass, Susan

24.

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

25.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

26.

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

Byron, Lord

27.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

28.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

29.

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

Allen, Woody

30.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

31.

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

32.

As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

33.

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

Peter Blake

34.

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

35.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

36.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

37.

Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

38.

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

39.

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

40.

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

41.

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

42.

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

43.

Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

44.

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

45.

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

46.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

47.

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

Key, Ellen

48.

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

Proverb, German

49.

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

50.

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen