Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Marriage

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

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

William Shakespeare

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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

Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

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

Pancoast, Mal

10.

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

Graham, James

11.

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

Proverb, Scottish

12.

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

Dupuy, Alexis

13.

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

Billings, Josh

14.

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

15.

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

Cosby, Bill

16.

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

Proverb, Scottish

17.

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

18.

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

Kinison, Sam

19.

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

20.

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

21.

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

22.

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

23.

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

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, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

26.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

27.

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

Proverb

28.

Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

29.

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

Novalis

30.

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

31.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

32.

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

Diller, Phyllis

33.

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

34.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

35.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

36.

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

37.

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

38.

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

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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

40.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

41.

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

42.

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

Pearl Buck

43.

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

44.

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

Balzac, Honore De

45.

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

46.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

47.

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

48.

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

Smith, Sydney

49.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.