Motivational Quotes

Marriage

When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

- Eucharista Ward

Best Quotes about Marriage

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

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

Young, Brigham

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

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

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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

Chopin, Daniel

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

11.

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

12.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

13.

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

Smith, Sydney

14.

In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

15.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

16.

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

Balzac, Honore De

17.

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

18.

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

19.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

20.

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Bible

24.

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

Rowland, Helen

25.

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Ford, Richard

29.

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

30.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

31.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

32.

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

33.

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

Jong, Erica

34.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

35.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

36.

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

Bush, Barbara

37.

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

Duncan, Isadora

38.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

39.

The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

40.

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

Victoria, Queen

41.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

42.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

43.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

44.

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

Baskins

45.

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

Rowland, Helen

46.

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

47.

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

48.

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

49.

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

50.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest --never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Landers, Ann