Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Proverb, Scottish

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 brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

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

Cosby, Bill

Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

10.

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

11.

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

12.

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

Proverb, Scottish

13.

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

14.

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

Mickey Rooney

15.

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

16.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

17.

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

18.

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

19.

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

20.

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

21.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

22.

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.

23.

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

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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

25.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

26.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

27.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

28.

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

29.

In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

30.

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

31.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

32.

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

33.

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

34.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

35.

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

36.

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

37.

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

38.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

39.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

40.

I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

41.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

42.

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

43.

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

44.

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]