Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Wilde, Oscar

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

Bundy, Peg

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

10.

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

Barrymore, John

11.

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

Wilson, Earl

12.

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

13.

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

Penn, William

14.

A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

15.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

16.

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

Congreve, William

17.

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

18.

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

19.

Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

20.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

21.

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

Hitopadesa

22.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

23.

When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

24.

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

25.

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

26.

Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

27.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

28.

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

Rita Rudner

29.

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

Pearl Buck

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

33.

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

34.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

35.

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

36.

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

37.

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

38.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

39.

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

40.

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

41.

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

Nelms, Cynthia

42.

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

43.

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

Ziglar, Zig

44.

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

45.

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

46.

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

Bennett, Jill

47.

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

48.

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

49.

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

Coward, Noel

50.

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

Proverb, German