Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Proverb, Scottish

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Rowland, Helen

When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Duncan, Isadora

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

10.

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

11.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

12.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

13.

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

Mead, Margaret

14.

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

Andre Maurois

15.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

16.

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

Kinison, Sam

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Marx, Groucho

20.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

21.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

22.

Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

23.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

24.

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

25.

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

26.

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

27.

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

28.

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

Novalis

29.

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

30.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

31.

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

Pancoast, Mal

32.

A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

33.

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

Proverb, Spanish

34.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

35.

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

36.

Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

37.

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

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.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

42.

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.