Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Proverb, Scottish

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

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 one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

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

Key, Ellen

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

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

Mead, Margaret

10.

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

11.

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

12.

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

Landers, Ann

13.

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

14.

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

Congreve, William

15.

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

Clarke, W. A.

16.

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

17.

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

18.

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

19.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

20.

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

21.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

22.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

23.

Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.

Rooney, Mickey

24.

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

Helen Rowland

25.

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

26.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

27.

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

28.

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

29.

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

30.

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

31.

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

Proverb, Scottish

32.

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

Vries, Peter De

33.

The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

34.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

35.

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

Byron, Lord

36.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

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The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

38.

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

Graham, James

39.

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

40.

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

41.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

42.

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

Murray, Joe

43.

One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

44.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

48.

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

49.

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Chopin, Daniel