Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Marriage

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

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

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

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

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

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

13.

Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

14.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

15.

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

16.

There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

17.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

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

Luther, Martin

19.

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

20.

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

Moliere

21.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

22.

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

23.

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

William Shakespeare

24.

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

25.

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

Nick Faldo

26.

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

Will Rogers

27.

Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

28.

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

29.

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

Rowland, Helen

30.

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

Wilson, Earl

31.

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

32.

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

33.

You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

34.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

35.

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

36.

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

Diller, Phyllis

37.

Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

38.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

39.

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

Connolly, Cyril

40.

Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

41.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

42.

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

Proverb, Scottish

43.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

44.

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

45.

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

Rudner, Rita

46.

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

47.

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

48.

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

49.

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

Helen Rowland

50.

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

Wilde, Oscar