Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Jerrold, Douglas William

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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

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

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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

Connolly, Cyril

10.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

11.

The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

12.

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

Wilder, Thornton

13.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

14.

I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

15.

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

16.

The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

17.

Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

18.

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

19.

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

20.

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

21.

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

Rieux, Madame De

22.

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

23.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

24.

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

Victoria, Queen

25.

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

Coward, Noel

26.

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

Allen, Woody

27.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

28.

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

29.

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

30.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

31.

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

32.

Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

33.

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

34.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

35.

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

36.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

37.

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

Elizabeth I

38.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

39.

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

40.

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

Duncan, Isadora

41.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

42.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

43.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

44.

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

Proverb, Scottish

45.

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

46.

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.

47.

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

Kauffman, Max

48.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

49.

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

50.

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