Motivational Quotes

Marriage

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Hitopadesa

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

10.

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

11.

Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

12.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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.

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

16.

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

Carson, Johnny

17.

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

Bundy, Peg

18.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

19.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

20.

In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

21.

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

22.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

23.

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

24.

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

25.

I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

26.

Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

27.

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

Rudner, Rita

28.

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

29.

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

Wilder, Thornton

30.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

31.

A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

32.

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

33.

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

34.

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

Congreve, William

35.

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

36.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

37.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

38.

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

39.

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

40.

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

Hull, Raymond

41.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

42.

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

43.

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

44.

Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

45.

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

46.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

47.

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

48.

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

Marx, Groucho

49.

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

Lawana Blackwell

50.

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz