Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Rieux, Madame De

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

William Shakespeare

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

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

Bible

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

Vries, Peter De

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

10.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

11.

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

12.

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

13.

When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Dupuy, Alexis

17.

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

18.

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

19.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

20.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

21.

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

22.

Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

23.

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

Jong, Erica

24.

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

25.

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

Ruckett

26.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

30.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

31.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

32.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

33.

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

34.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

35.

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

36.

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

37.

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

38.

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

Proverb

39.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

40.

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

William Shakespeare

41.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Will Rogers

45.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

46.

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

47.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.