Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Wycherley, William

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Diller, Phyllis

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Victoria, Queen

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest --never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Landers, Ann

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

Chatterton, Thomas

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

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

Maurois, Andre

10.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

12.

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

Luther, Martin

13.

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

Sondheim, Stephen

14.

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

15.

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

16.

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

17.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

19.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

20.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

21.

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

22.

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

23.

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

24.

[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

25.

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

26.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

27.

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

28.

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

Helen Rowland

29.

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

30.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

31.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

32.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

33.

Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

34.

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

35.

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

36.

In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

37.

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

38.

We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

39.

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

40.

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

41.

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

42.

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

43.

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

Sunday, Billy

44.

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

Rowland, Helen

45.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

49.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

50.

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

Heine, Heinrich