Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Murray, Joe

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

Rowland, Helen

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Heine, Heinrich

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

10.

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

11.

[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

12.

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

13.

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

14.

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

15.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

16.

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

Mae West

17.

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

Halen

18.

Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

19.

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.

20.

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

21.

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

22.

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

23.

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

Duncan, Isadora

24.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

25.

Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

26.

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

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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

28.

If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

29.

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

31.

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

32.

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

Sunday, Billy

33.

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

34.

A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

35.

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

36.

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

37.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

38.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

39.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

40.

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

41.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

42.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

43.

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

44.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

45.

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

46.

To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

47.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

48.

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

49.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

50.

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