Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Marriage

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

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

William Shakespeare

10.

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

11.

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

12.

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

Mead, Margaret

13.

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

14.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

15.

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

Farquhar, George

16.

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

17.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

18.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

19.

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

20.

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

21.

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

22.

Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

23.

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

24.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

25.

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

26.

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

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

Mencken, H. L.

28.

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

29.

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

30.

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

Luther, Martin

31.

You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

32.

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

William Shakespeare

33.

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

34.

Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

35.

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

36.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

37.

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

38.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

39.

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

Andre Maurois

40.

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

41.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

42.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

43.

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

44.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Balzac, Honore De

48.

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

Sunday, Billy

49.

A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

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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