Motivational Quotes

Marriage

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

- Picabia, Francis

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

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

Proverb, Scottish

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

10.

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

11.

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

Victoria, Queen

12.

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

13.

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

14.

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

Billings, Josh

15.

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

16.

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

17.

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

18.

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

19.

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

Rowland, Helen

20.

In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

21.

All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

22.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

23.

A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

24.

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

Bible

25.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

26.

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

27.

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

Barrymore, John

28.

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

Murray, Joe

29.

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

30.

When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

31.

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

Moliere

32.

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

William Shakespeare

33.

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

34.

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

35.

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

36.

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

Proverb, Spanish

37.

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

Pearl Buck

38.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

39.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

40.

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

41.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

42.

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

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A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

44.

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

Graham, James

45.

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

Bible

46.

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

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It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

48.

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

Congreve, William

49.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

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