Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Wycherley, William

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Spencer, Herbert

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

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

Penn, William

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

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

Grizzard, Lewis

10.

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

11.

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

12.

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

13.

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

Proverb

14.

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

Farquhar, George

15.

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

16.

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

Allen, Woody

17.

A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

18.

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

19.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

20.

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

21.

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

Ruckett

22.

One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

23.

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

Skelton, Red

24.

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

25.

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

Vries, Peter De

26.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

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.

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

29.

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

30.

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

Halen

31.

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

32.

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

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

Bible

34.

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

35.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

36.

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

37.

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

38.

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

39.

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

Nick Faldo

40.

Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

41.

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

Irving, Washington

42.

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

43.

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

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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

45.

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

46.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

47.

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

Byron, Lord

48.

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

49.

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

50.

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen