Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Penn, William

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

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

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

The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

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

Allen, Woody

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

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

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

William Shakespeare

12.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

13.

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

Sondheim, Stephen

14.

I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

15.

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

16.

Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.

Mickey Rooney

17.

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

18.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

19.

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

20.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

21.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

22.

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

Billings, Josh

23.

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

24.

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

25.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

26.

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

Bible

27.

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

Nick Faldo

28.

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

29.

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

30.

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

Peter Blake

31.

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

32.

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

Dupuy, Alexis

33.

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

Barrymore, John

34.

[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

35.

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

36.

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

Hitopadesa

37.

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

38.

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

Graham, James

39.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

40.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

41.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

42.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

43.

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

Harrison, Jane

44.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

45.

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

46.

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

Winters, Shelley

47.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

48.

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

49.

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

50.

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