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

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

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

10.

O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

11.

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

12.

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

13.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

14.

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

15.

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

16.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

18.

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

19.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

20.

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

21.

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

Will Rogers

22.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

23.

The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

24.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

25.

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

26.

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

27.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

28.

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

Hesiod

29.

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

Hull, Raymond

30.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

31.

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

William Shakespeare

32.

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

33.

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

Mead, Margaret

34.

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

William Shakespeare

35.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

36.

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

Hitopadesa

37.

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

38.

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

39.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

40.

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

41.

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

Jong, Erica

42.

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

43.

Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

44.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

45.

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

Proverb

46.

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

Duncan, Isadora

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