Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Byron, Lord

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

10.

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

Ford, Richard

11.

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

Novalis

12.

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

13.

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

Moliere

14.

When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

15.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

16.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

17.

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

Eliot, George

18.

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

19.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

20.

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

21.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

22.

In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

23.

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

24.

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

Bennett, Jill

25.

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

26.

Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

27.

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

28.

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

Hull, Raymond

29.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

30.

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

William Shakespeare

31.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

32.

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

33.

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

34.

Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

35.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

36.

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

Mencken, H. L.

37.

Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

38.

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

Dupuy, Alexis

39.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

40.

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

Vass, Susan

41.

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

42.

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

43.

The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

44.

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

48.

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

49.

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

50.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb