Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Diller, Phyllis

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

10.

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

Young, Brigham

11.

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

Irving, Washington

12.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

13.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

14.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

15.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

16.

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

17.

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

Proverb

18.

When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

19.

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

20.

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

Duncan, Isadora

21.

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

22.

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

Lawana Blackwell

23.

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

24.

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

Farquhar, George

25.

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

Landers, Ann

26.

A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

27.

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

28.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

29.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

30.

It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

31.

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

Wilder, Thornton

32.

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

Novalis

33.

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

Hitopadesa

34.

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

35.

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

36.

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

37.

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

38.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

39.

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

Mead, Margaret

40.

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

41.

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

42.

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

Winters, Shelley

43.

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

44.

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

Wilde, Oscar

45.

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.

46.

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

Allen, Woody

47.

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

48.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

49.

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.