Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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

Penn, William

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Rooney, Mickey

The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

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

Sondheim, Stephen

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

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

10.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

11.

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

Mead, Margaret

12.

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

13.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

14.

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

15.

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

16.

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

17.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

18.

Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

19.

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

20.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

21.

The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

22.

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

23.

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

24.

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

25.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

26.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

27.

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

William Shakespeare

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.

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

30.

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

31.

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

Helen Rowland

32.

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

33.

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

34.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

35.

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

36.

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

37.

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

38.

Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

39.

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

40.

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

Vries, Peter De

41.

The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

42.

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

43.

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

44.

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

45.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

46.

When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

47.

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

Clarke, W. A.

48.

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.

Ann Landers

49.

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

Lennon, John

50.

A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette