Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

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

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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

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

Victoria, Queen

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

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

Nelms, Cynthia

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

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

10.

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

11.

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

Mencken, H. L.

12.

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

Proverb, Scottish

13.

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

14.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

15.

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

Vries, Peter De

16.

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.

17.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

18.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

19.

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

William Shakespeare

20.

Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

21.

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

Proverb

22.

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

Chatterton, Thomas

23.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

24.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

25.

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

Farquhar, George

26.

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

Hitopadesa

27.

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

28.

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

29.

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

Hitopadesa

30.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

31.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

32.

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

33.

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

34.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

35.

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

36.

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

Skelton, Red

37.

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

38.

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

39.

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

Hesiod

40.

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

41.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

42.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

43.

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

44.

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

45.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

46.

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

Samuel, Herbert

47.

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

Jong, Erica

48.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

49.

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

50.

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