Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Duncan, Isadora

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Jong, Erica

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Heine, Heinrich

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

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

10.

Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

11.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

12.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

13.

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

14.

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

Bible

15.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

16.

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

17.

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

Pancoast, Mal

18.

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

19.

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

Prior, Matthew

20.

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

William Shakespeare

21.

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

William Shakespeare

22.

O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

23.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

24.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

25.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

26.

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

Luther, Martin

27.

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

28.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

29.

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

Rita Rudner

30.

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

Vries, Peter De

31.

A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

32.

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

33.

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

34.

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

35.

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

36.

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

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.

The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

39.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

40.

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

41.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

42.

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

43.

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

44.

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

45.

Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

46.

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

47.

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

48.

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

William Shakespeare

49.

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

50.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis