Motivational Quotes

Marriage

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

- Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Luther, Martin

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

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

Coward, Noel

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

Baskins

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

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Kinison, Sam

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

Dupuy, Alexis

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

Peter Blake

10.

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

Halen

11.

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

12.

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

13.

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

14.

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

Congreve, William

15.

Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

16.

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

17.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

18.

Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

19.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

20.

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

Key, Ellen

21.

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

22.

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

Landers, Ann

23.

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

24.

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

25.

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

26.

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

27.

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

28.

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

29.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

30.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

31.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

32.

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

Vries, Peter De

33.

O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

34.

If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

35.

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

36.

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

Connolly, Cyril

37.

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

Proverb, Scottish

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Allen, Woody

41.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

42.

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

43.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

44.

As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

45.

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

Eliot, George

46.

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Smith, Sydney

47.

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

48.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

49.

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

50.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis