Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

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

Samuel, Herbert

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

All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

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

Hitopadesa

Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.

Rooney, Mickey

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

10.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

11.

The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

12.

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

13.

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

Bible

14.

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

Jong, Erica

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Victoria, Queen

19.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

20.

Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

21.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

22.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

23.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

24.

Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.

Mickey Rooney

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

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

29.

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

30.

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

Novalis

31.

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

32.

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

33.

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

Bush, Barbara

34.

Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

Proverb, Scottish

35.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

36.

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

Bible

37.

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

38.

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

39.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

40.

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

Dupuy, Alexis

41.

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

42.

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