Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Key, Ellen

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Grizzard, Lewis

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

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

Key, Ellen

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

Dupuy, Alexis

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

Billings, Josh

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

10.

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

Nick Faldo

11.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

12.

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

13.

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

14.

A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

15.

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

16.

Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

17.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

18.

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

19.

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

William Shakespeare

20.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

21.

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

22.

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

Proverb

23.

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

24.

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

Kathleen Norris

25.

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

26.

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

27.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

28.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

29.

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

30.

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

31.

I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

32.

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

33.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

34.

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

35.

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

39.

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

40.

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

41.

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

Bundy, Peg

42.

Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

43.

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

Hitopadesa

44.

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

William Shakespeare

45.

Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

46.

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

47.

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

48.

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

49.

The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

50.

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