Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Luther, Martin

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

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

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

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

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

10.

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

Hitopadesa

11.

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

William Shakespeare

12.

Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

13.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

14.

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

Kauffman, Max

15.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

16.

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

17.

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

18.

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

19.

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

20.

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

21.

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

22.

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

23.

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

24.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

25.

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

Diller, Phyllis

26.

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

Vries, Peter De

27.

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

28.

Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

29.

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

30.

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

William Shakespeare

31.

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

32.

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

Proverb, Spanish

33.

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

Mencken, H. L.

34.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

35.

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

Hesiod

36.

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

37.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

38.

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

Pearl Buck

39.

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

40.

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

Maurois, Andre

41.

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

42.

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

Proverb

43.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

44.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

45.

Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

46.

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

47.

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

Kinison, Sam

48.

If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

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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.