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 that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Wycherley, William

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

10.

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

11.

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

Duncan, Isadora

12.

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

13.

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

Mencken, H. L.

14.

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

Carson, Johnny

15.

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

Vries, Peter De

16.

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Young, Brigham

20.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

21.

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

22.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

23.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

24.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

25.

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

Elizabeth I

26.

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

Bible

27.

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

William Shakespeare

28.

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

29.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

30.

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

31.

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

32.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

33.

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

34.

Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

35.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

36.

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

37.

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

38.

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

Proverb, Scottish

39.

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

40.

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

41.

A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

42.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

43.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

44.

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

45.

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

46.

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

47.

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

48.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

49.

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

50.

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