Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

- Connolly, Cyril

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Duncan, Isadora

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Rowland, Helen

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

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

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

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

10.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

11.

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

William Shakespeare

12.

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

Allen, Woody

13.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

14.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

18.

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

19.

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

20.

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

21.

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

Bible

22.

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

Pearl Buck

23.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

24.

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

25.

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

Mencken, H. L.

26.

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

Proverb

27.

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

28.

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

29.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

30.

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

31.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

32.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

33.

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

34.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

35.

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

36.

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Pancoast, Mal

40.

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

41.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

42.

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

Dave Meurer

43.

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

Vass, Susan

44.

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

45.

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

46.

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

Young, Brigham

47.

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

48.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

49.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.