Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Marriage

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

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

Heine, Heinrich

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

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

Jong, Erica

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Young, Brigham

10.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

11.

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

Bible

12.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

13.

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

14.

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

Proverb

15.

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

Rowland, Helen

16.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

17.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

18.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

19.

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

20.

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

21.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

22.

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

23.

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

24.

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

25.

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

26.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

27.

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

28.

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

29.

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

30.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

31.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

32.

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

33.

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

Kauffman, Max

34.

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

35.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

36.

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

37.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

38.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest --never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Landers, Ann

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

Bierce, Ambrose

40.

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

Congreve, William

41.

By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

42.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

43.

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

Vries, Peter De

44.

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

Nick Faldo

45.

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

46.

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

Dave Meurer

47.

Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

48.

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

49.

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.

50.

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

Billings, Josh