Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Marriage

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Sondheim, Stephen

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

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

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

10.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

11.

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

Balzac, Honore De

12.

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

13.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

14.

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

15.

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

16.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

17.

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

18.

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Ford, Richard

22.

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

Penn, William

23.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

24.

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

25.

You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

26.

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

Ziglar, Zig

27.

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

William Shakespeare

28.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

29.

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

30.

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

31.

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

32.

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

Vries, Peter De

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Rieux, Madame De

36.

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

Key, Ellen

37.

When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

38.

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

Luther, Martin

39.

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

40.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

41.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

42.

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

43.

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

Bennett, Jill

44.

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

Eliot, George

45.

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

46.

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

Allen, Woody

47.

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

48.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

49.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

50.

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De