Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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

Ford, Richard

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

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

Cosby, Bill

10.

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

Rita Rudner

11.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

12.

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

Myers, Cecil

13.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

14.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

15.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

16.

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

17.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

18.

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

19.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

20.

Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

21.

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

22.

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

Bush, Barbara

23.

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

Bible

24.

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

Victoria, Queen

25.

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

26.

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

Sunday, Billy

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Wilson, Earl

30.

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

William Shakespeare

31.

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

Luther, Martin

32.

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

Skelton, Red

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.

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

36.

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

Rowland, Helen

37.

By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

38.

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

39.

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

40.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

41.

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

42.

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

Bible

43.

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

44.

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

Thomason, Pauline

45.

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

49.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

50.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.