Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Prior, Matthew

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

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

Moliere

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

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

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

Victoria, Queen

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

Vries, Peter De

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

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

10.

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

11.

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

Rowland, Helen

12.

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

13.

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

Hull, Raymond

14.

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

15.

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

16.

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

17.

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

18.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

19.

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

20.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

21.

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

William Shakespeare

22.

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

Sondheim, Stephen

23.

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

24.

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

Vries, Peter De

25.

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

Barrymore, John

26.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

27.

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

28.

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

Kinison, Sam

29.

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

30.

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

31.

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

32.

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

33.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

34.

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

35.

The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

36.

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

37.

A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

38.

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

39.

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

40.

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

41.

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

42.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

43.

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

Thomason, Pauline

44.

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

William Shakespeare

45.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

46.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

47.

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

Ruckett

48.

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

Proverb

49.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.