Motivational Quotes

Marriage

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

- Aeschylus

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

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

Luther, Martin

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Key, Ellen

13.

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

14.

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Clarke, W. A.

18.

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

19.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

20.

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

Andre Maurois

21.

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

22.

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

Bible

23.

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

Smalley, Gary

24.

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

William Shakespeare

25.

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

Marx, Groucho

26.

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

27.

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

28.

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

William Shakespeare

29.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

30.

Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.

Mickey Rooney

31.

Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.

Rooney, Mickey

32.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

33.

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

William Shakespeare

34.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

35.

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

36.

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

37.

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

38.

A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

39.

One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

40.

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

41.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

42.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

43.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

44.

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

45.

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

46.

Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

47.

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

48.

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

William Shakespeare

49.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

50.

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord