Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Vries, Peter De

Best Quotes about Marriage

1.

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

2.

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

3.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

4.

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

5.

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

Thomason, Pauline

6.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

7.

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

8.

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

9.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

10.

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

Bible

11.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

12.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

13.

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

Ruckett

14.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

15.

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

Kauffman, Max

16.

Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

17.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

18.

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

19.

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

20.

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

21.

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

22.

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

23.

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

Duncan, Isadora

24.

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

25.

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

Balzac, Honore De

26.

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

Penn, William

27.

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

28.

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

Mencken, H. L.

29.

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

30.

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

31.

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

32.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

33.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

34.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

35.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

36.

I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

37.

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

38.

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

39.

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

Rita Rudner

40.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

41.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

42.

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

43.

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

44.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

45.

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

46.

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

47.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

48.

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

49.

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

50.

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton