Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Marriage

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

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

Rita Rudner

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

West, Mae

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

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

Jong, Erica

10.

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

11.

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

Victoria, Queen

12.

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

13.

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

Young, Brigham

14.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

15.

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

Rooney, Mickey

16.

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

17.

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

Luther, Martin

18.

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

Proverb

19.

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

Key, Ellen

20.

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

Proverb, Scottish

21.

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

22.

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

23.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

24.

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

25.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

26.

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

27.

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

Hitopadesa

28.

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

29.

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

Graham, James

30.

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

31.

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

Landers, Ann

32.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

33.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

34.

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

35.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

36.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

37.

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

38.

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

39.

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

40.

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

41.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

42.

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

Ford, Richard

43.

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

44.

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

Irving, Washington

45.

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

46.

Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

47.

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

Mencken, H. L.

48.

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

49.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

50.

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De