Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

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

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

14.

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

Rowland, Helen

15.

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

16.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

17.

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

18.

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

19.

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

20.

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

Luther, Martin

21.

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

Myers, Cecil

22.

The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

23.

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

24.

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

25.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

26.

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

Helen Rowland

27.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

28.

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

Duncan, Isadora

29.

I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

30.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

34.

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

35.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

36.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

37.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

38.

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

Pearl Buck

39.

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

40.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

41.

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

Carson, Johnny

42.

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

43.

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

44.

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

45.

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

46.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

47.

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

Lennon, John

48.

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

49.

All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.