Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Helen Rowland

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

Clarke, W. A.

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

Mead, Margaret

10.

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

11.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

12.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

14.

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

William Shakespeare

15.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

16.

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

17.

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

Nelms, Cynthia

18.

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

19.

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

20.

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

21.

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

22.

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

23.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

24.

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

25.

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

Byron, Lord

26.

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

Vries, Peter De

27.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

28.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

29.

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

33.

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

Mencken, H. L.

34.

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

35.

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

36.

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

37.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

38.

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

Thomason, Pauline

39.

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

40.

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

Dupuy, Alexis

41.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

42.

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

Diller, Phyllis

43.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

44.

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

William Shakespeare

45.

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

46.

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

Proverb, Spanish

47.

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

Bush, Barbara

48.

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

Bennett, Jill

49.

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

50.

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

Skelton, Red