Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

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

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

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

Bierce, Ambrose

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Novalis

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

10.

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

11.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

12.

Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

13.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

14.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

15.

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

16.

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

Byron, Lord

17.

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

18.

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

19.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

20.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

21.

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

22.

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

Allen, Woody

23.

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

24.

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

Key, Ellen

25.

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

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

26.

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

William Shakespeare

27.

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

28.

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

Smith, Sydney

29.

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

Hull, Raymond

30.

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

31.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

32.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

33.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

34.

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

35.

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

36.

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

William Shakespeare

37.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

38.

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

Luther, Martin

39.

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

Bundy, Peg

40.

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

Proverb, Spanish

41.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

42.

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

43.

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

44.

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

Coward, Noel

45.

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

46.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

47.

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

48.

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

49.

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

50.

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

Lawana Blackwell