Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Smith, Sydney

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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

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

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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

Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

10.

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

Bush, Barbara

11.

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

Thomason, Pauline

12.

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

13.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

14.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

15.

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

16.

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

Vries, Peter De

17.

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

Pancoast, Mal

18.

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

Vries, Peter De

19.

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

Ruckett

20.

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

21.

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

22.

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

Key, Ellen

23.

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

24.

By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

25.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

26.

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

27.

Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

28.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

29.

All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

30.

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

31.

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

Marx, Groucho

32.

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

33.

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

34.

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

Pearl Buck

35.

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

36.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

37.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

38.

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

39.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

40.

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

Proverb

41.

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

42.

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

Proverb, Scottish

43.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

44.

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

Andre Maurois

45.

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

46.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

47.

Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

48.

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.

49.

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

50.

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet