Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Leacock, Stephen B.

Best Quotes about Marriage

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

Peter Blake

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

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

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

Bush, Barbara

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

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

Barrymore, John

10.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

11.

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

12.

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

Kinison, Sam

13.

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

Irving, Washington

14.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

15.

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

Andre Maurois

16.

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

17.

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

William Shakespeare

18.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

19.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

20.

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

21.

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

Dupuy, Alexis

22.

Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

23.

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

24.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

25.

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

26.

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

27.

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

Coward, Noel

28.

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

Vries, Peter De

29.

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

Young, Brigham

30.

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

31.

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

32.

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

33.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

34.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

35.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

36.

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

37.

If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

38.

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

Proverb

39.

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

Allen, Woody

40.

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

41.

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

42.

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

Prior, Matthew

43.

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

Rowland, Helen

44.

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

45.

Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

46.

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

47.

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

48.

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

Dave Meurer

49.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

50.

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