Motivational Quotes

Marriage

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Thomason, Pauline

Mencken, H. L.

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

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bible

10.

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

Penn, William

11.

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

Victoria, Queen

12.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

13.

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.

Ann Landers

14.

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

William Shakespeare

15.

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

16.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

17.

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

18.

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Congreve, William

22.

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

23.

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

24.

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

Barrymore, John

25.

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

Irving, Washington

26.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

27.

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

28.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

29.

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

Proverb, Spanish

30.

O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

31.

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

32.

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

33.

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

Bible

34.

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

35.

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

36.

Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

37.

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

38.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

39.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

40.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French