Motivational Quotes

Marriage

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

- Vries, Peter De

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Balzac, Honore De

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Farquhar, George

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

Elizabeth I

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

10.

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

11.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

12.

Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

13.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

14.

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.

15.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

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

Rowland, Helen

17.

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

18.

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

Proverb, German

19.

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

20.

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

21.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

22.

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

23.

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

Bible

24.

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

25.

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

26.

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

Winters, Shelley

27.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

28.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

29.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

30.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

31.

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

32.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

33.

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

35.

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

36.

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

37.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

38.

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

Prior, Matthew

39.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

40.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

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.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

47.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

48.

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

49.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

50.

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

Grizzard, Lewis