Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Vries, Peter De

Best Quotes about Marriage

1.

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

2.

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

3.

The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

4.

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

Kinison, Sam

5.

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

6.

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

7.

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

8.

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

Hitopadesa

9.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

10.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

11.

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

Mencken, H. L.

12.

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

13.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

14.

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

Victoria, Queen

15.

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.

16.

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

17.

As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

18.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

19.

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

20.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

21.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

22.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

23.

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

24.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

25.

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

Baskins

26.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

27.

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

Bible

28.

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

29.

Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

30.

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

Dupuy, Alexis

31.

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

32.

The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

33.

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

Vries, Peter De

34.

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

Rieux, Madame De

35.

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

36.

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

Chopin, Daniel

37.

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

Mickey Rooney

38.

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

39.

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

40.

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

41.

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

42.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

43.

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

44.

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

45.

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

46.

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

47.

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

Duncan, Isadora

48.

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

49.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

50.

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