Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Marriage

We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

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

Rowland, Helen

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

10.

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

11.

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

Victoria, Queen

12.

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

13.

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

14.

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

15.

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

Vries, Peter De

16.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

17.

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

18.

It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

19.

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

20.

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

21.

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

Lawana Blackwell

22.

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

Luther, Martin

23.

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

Hitopadesa

24.

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

25.

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

Ruckett

26.

The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

27.

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

28.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

29.

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

31.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

32.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

33.

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

34.

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

35.

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

Andre Maurois

36.

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

37.

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

Peter Blake

38.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

39.

Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

40.

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

41.

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

42.

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

43.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

44.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.