Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Marriage

Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

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

Baskins

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

Proverb

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

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

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

Kinison, Sam

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

10.

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

Farquhar, George

11.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

12.

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

13.

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

Vries, Peter De

14.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

15.

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

16.

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

Irving, Washington

17.

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

Duncan, Isadora

18.

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

19.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

20.

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

Pearl Buck

21.

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

Victoria, Queen

22.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

23.

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

24.

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

25.

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

Bennett, Jill

26.

There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

27.

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

Wycherley, William

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Bundy, Peg

32.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

33.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

34.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

35.

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

36.

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

37.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

38.

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

39.

Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

40.

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

41.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

42.

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

43.

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

44.

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

45.

O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

46.

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

47.

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

48.

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

Luther, Martin

49.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

50.

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson