Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Updike, John

Best Quotes about Marriage

The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

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

Skelton, Red

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

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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

Young, Brigham

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

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

Elizabeth I

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Dupuy, Alexis

10.

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

Bible

11.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

12.

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

William Shakespeare

13.

A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

14.

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

15.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

16.

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

17.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

18.

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Daley, Cass

19.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

20.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

21.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

22.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

23.

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

24.

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

25.

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

26.

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

27.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

28.

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

29.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

30.

Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

31.

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

Vries, Peter De

32.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

33.

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

Proverb

34.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

35.

As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

36.

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

Carson, Johnny

37.

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

38.

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

Maurois, Andre

39.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

40.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

41.

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

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.

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

44.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

45.

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

46.

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

47.

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

Helen Rowland

48.

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

49.

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

William Shakespeare

50.

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