Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Marriage is the sunset of love.

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Marriage

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

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

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

Luther, Martin

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

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

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Will Rogers

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

10.

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

11.

Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

12.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

13.

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

Novalis

14.

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

Bible

15.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Ann Landers

16.

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

17.

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

Bundy, Peg

18.

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

19.

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

20.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

21.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

22.

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

23.

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

24.

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

25.

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

Hitopadesa

26.

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

Elizabeth I

27.

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

Young, Brigham

28.

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

Penn, William

29.

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

Congreve, William

30.

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

Hitopadesa

31.

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

Heine, Heinrich

32.

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

Hesiod

33.

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

34.

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

35.

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

36.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

37.

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

38.

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

39.

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

Barrymore, John

40.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

41.

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

42.

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

Pearl Buck

43.

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

44.

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

Bennett, Jill

45.

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

Vass, Susan

46.

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

Proverb

47.

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

48.

Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

49.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

50.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin