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

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

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Grizzard, Lewis

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

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

Will Rogers

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

10.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

11.

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

Graham, James

12.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

13.

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

14.

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

15.

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

16.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

17.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

18.

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

William Shakespeare

19.

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

20.

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

Hitopadesa

21.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

22.

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

Carson, Johnny

23.

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

24.

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

Thomason, Pauline

25.

There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

26.

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

Pancoast, Mal

27.

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

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

29.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

30.

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

Allen, Woody

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Victoria, Queen

34.

The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

35.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

36.

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

Billings, Josh

37.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

38.

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

Rieux, Madame De

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Bush, Barbara

42.

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

Irving, Washington

43.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

44.

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

William Shakespeare

45.

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

Bible

46.

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

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