Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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

William Shakespeare

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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

Smith, Sydney

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

10.

Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

11.

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

Thomason, Pauline

12.

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

13.

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

Eucharista Ward

14.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

15.

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

Kauffman, Max

16.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

17.

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

18.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

19.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

20.

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

21.

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

22.

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

23.

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

Carson, Johnny

24.

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

25.

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

Dupuy, Alexis

26.

Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

27.

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

28.

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

Pearl Buck

29.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

30.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

31.

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

32.

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

33.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

34.

When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

35.

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

Proverb

36.

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

Rieux, Madame De

37.

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

Sunday, Billy

38.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

39.

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

Chopin, Daniel

40.

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

41.

A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

46.

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

Maurois, Andre

47.

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

Proverb

48.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

49.

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

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