Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Bush, Barbara

A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

Key, Ellen

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Bierce, Ambrose

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

12.

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

13.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

14.

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

15.

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

16.

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

17.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

18.

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

19.

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

Myers, Cecil

20.

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

21.

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

Vries, Peter De

22.

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

Duncan, Isadora

23.

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

Proverb

24.

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

25.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

26.

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

Proverb, Spanish

27.

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

28.

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

29.

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

Rowland, Helen

30.

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

31.

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

Rita Rudner

32.

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

33.

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

Helen Rowland

34.

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

35.

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

36.

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

Farquhar, George

37.

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

38.

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

Vries, Peter De

39.

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

Duncan, Isadora

40.

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

Baskins

41.

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

Wycherley, William

42.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

43.

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

44.

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

45.

Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

46.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

47.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

48.

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.