Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Key, Ellen

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

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

Luther, Martin

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

Coward, Noel

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

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Maurois, Andre

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

10.

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

11.

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

12.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

13.

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

14.

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

15.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

16.

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

17.

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

18.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

19.

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

20.

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

21.

Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

22.

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

23.

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

24.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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.

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

Key, Ellen

27.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

28.

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

31.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

32.

In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

33.

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

Novalis

34.

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

Elizabeth I

35.

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

Hull, Raymond

36.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

37.

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

38.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

39.

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

Wilder, Thornton

40.

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

41.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

42.

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

Rudner, Rita

43.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

44.

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

45.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

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.

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

48.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

49.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

50.

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