Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Vries, Peter De

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

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

Ziglar, Zig

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

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

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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

10.

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

11.

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

12.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

13.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

14.

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

Farquhar, George

15.

In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

16.

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

17.

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

Dupuy, Alexis

18.

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

19.

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

20.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

21.

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Proverb

26.

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

27.

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

28.

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

29.

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

30.

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

31.

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

32.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

33.

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

34.

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

Jong, Erica

35.

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

36.

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

37.

Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Proverb, Arabian

38.

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

39.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

40.

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

Duncan, Isadora

41.

When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

42.

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

Lawana Blackwell

43.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

44.

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

45.

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

46.

By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

47.

The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

48.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

49.

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

50.

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

Byron, Lord