Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

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

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

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

William Shakespeare

Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

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

Victoria, Queen

10.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

11.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

12.

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

13.

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

14.

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

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

Spencer, Herbert

16.

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

Ruckett

17.

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

Helen Rowland

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

21.

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

22.

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

Byron, Lord

23.

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

24.

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

Wilder, Thornton

25.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

26.

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

27.

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

Irving, Washington

28.

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

Eliot, George

29.

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

30.

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

31.

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

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The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

33.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

34.

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

35.

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

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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

37.

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

38.

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

39.

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

Baskins

40.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

41.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

42.

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

43.

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

44.

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

45.

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

46.

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

47.

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

48.

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

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Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

50.

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

Mencken, H. L.