Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

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

Helen Rowland

Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Mae West

10.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

11.

Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

12.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

13.

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

14.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

15.

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

Duncan, Isadora

16.

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

17.

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

18.

The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

19.

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

Coward, Noel

20.

Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

21.

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

Lawana Blackwell

22.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

23.

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

24.

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

Bundy, Peg

25.

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

Wilder, Thornton

26.

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

27.

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

Dave Meurer

28.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

29.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

30.

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

31.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

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

33.

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

Barrymore, John

34.

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

William Shakespeare

35.

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

36.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

37.

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

38.

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

39.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

40.

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

41.

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

42.

Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

43.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

44.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

45.

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

46.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

47.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

48.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

49.

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

50.

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

Mead, Margaret