Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

- Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Spencer, Herbert

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

Ruckett

Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

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

Allen, Woody

10.

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

11.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

12.

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

13.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

14.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

15.

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

Jong, Erica

16.

It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

17.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

18.

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

19.

Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

20.

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

Clarke, W. A.

21.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

22.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

23.

A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

24.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

25.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

26.

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

Prior, Matthew

27.

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

28.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

29.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

30.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

31.

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

Byron, Lord

32.

As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

33.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

34.

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

35.

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

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.

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

38.

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

Moliere

39.

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

Bundy, Peg

40.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

41.

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

William Shakespeare

42.

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

43.

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

44.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

45.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

46.

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

William Shakespeare

47.

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

48.

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

49.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

50.

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

Nick Faldo