Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Bible

Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

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

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

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

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

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

Thomason, Pauline

10.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

11.

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

12.

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

Dupuy, Alexis

13.

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

Rieux, Madame De

14.

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

15.

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

Jong, Erica

16.

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

Will Rogers

17.

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

Updike, John

18.

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

19.

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

20.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

21.

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

22.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

23.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

24.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

25.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

26.

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

William Shakespeare

27.

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

William Shakespeare

28.

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

William Shakespeare

29.

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

Proverb

30.

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

Sondheim, Stephen

31.

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

32.

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

33.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

34.

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

35.

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

36.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

37.

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

38.

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

39.

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

40.

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

41.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

42.

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

William Shakespeare

43.

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

Penn, William

44.

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

Diller, Phyllis

45.

Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

46.

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

Congreve, William

47.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

48.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

49.

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

50.

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

Bush, Barbara