Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Elizabeth I

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

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Novalis

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

14.

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

15.

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

William Shakespeare

16.

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

Bush, Barbara

17.

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

Kinison, Sam

18.

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

Ziglar, Zig

19.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

20.

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

Victoria, Queen

21.

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

Connolly, Cyril

22.

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

23.

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.

24.

In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

25.

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

26.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

27.

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

Penn, William

28.

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

29.

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

West, Mae

30.

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

Dupuy, Alexis

31.

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

32.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

33.

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

Wilson, Earl

34.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

35.

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

36.

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

Nick Faldo

37.

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

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Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

39.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

40.

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

41.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

42.

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

Hull, Raymond

43.

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

44.

Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

45.

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

46.

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

47.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.