Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Key, Ellen

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

Helen Rowland

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

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

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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

Hull, Raymond

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

Young, Brigham

10.

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

11.

Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

12.

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

Proverb, Scottish

13.

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

14.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

15.

One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

16.

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

Chopin, Daniel

17.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

18.

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

19.

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

Rieux, Madame De

20.

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

21.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

22.

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

23.

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

Proverb

24.

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

Luther, Martin

25.

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

Dupuy, Alexis

26.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

27.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

28.

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

29.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

30.

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

Novalis

31.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

32.

Dickens, Charles

33.

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

34.

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

35.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

36.

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

37.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

38.

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

Bundy, Peg

39.

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

40.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

41.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

42.

To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

43.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

44.

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

45.

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

46.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

47.

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

48.

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

49.

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

William Shakespeare

50.

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

Will Rogers