Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Novalis

Best Quotes about Marriage

1.

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

Allen, Woody

2.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

3.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

4.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

5.

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

6.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

7.

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

8.

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

9.

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

Elizabeth I

10.

One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

11.

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

12.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

13.

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

14.

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

15.

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

Victoria, Queen

16.

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

17.

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

18.

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

19.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

20.

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

21.

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

22.

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

Eucharista Ward

23.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

24.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

26.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

27.

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

28.

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

29.

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

30.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

31.

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.

32.

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

Wilde, Oscar

33.

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

34.

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

35.

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

Vass, Susan

36.

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

37.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

38.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

39.

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

40.

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

41.

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

Andre Maurois

42.

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

43.

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

Bundy, Peg

44.

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

Ruckett

45.

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

Wilder, Thornton

46.

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